Day Forty Two February 16 Today is Mazatlan with an arrival time of 09:00 and departure time of 18:00. The city has a population of 500,000 residents and hosts nearly 2 million visitors annually. My morning deck walk produced a wonderful sunrise. As the ship cruised closer to Mazatlan, a mountain came into view. The mountain looked very similar to Sugarloaf in Rio de Janeiro. Quite a lot of fog shrounded the mountain as well as the harbour so the pilot who was...

Day Forty One - February 15 The 14th of February (Valentine's Day) was spent at sea. While at our art class, the cabin steward cleaned our room and placed a card with balloons on our bed. It was a lovely touch. Janice also "bought" me dinner in the specialty steak restaurant Polo. It was also free cocktails on the captain so another free booze day. The trip from San Diego covered approximately 1,000 nauctical miles thus the reason for the early departure from...

Day Thirty Nine - February 13 Today's port was San Diego once again. We arrived at 07:00 and departed from here at 15:00. We really enjoy San Diego so we were not disappointed to return. The city is under an extreme heat warning as the temperatures are above the seasonal norm. Jack, our art instructor suggested that we should check out the art store Blick Art Supplies situated in the heart of Little Italy. There must have been at least a dozen other cruise pa...

Day Thirty Eight - February 12 Well it was back to Los Angeles again on the Magical Mystery Cruise . We arrived at 07:00am at Pier 46 but not the same pier as we embarked from on January 6. The main cruise terminal spots were occupied by two mega Princess ships who regularly do seven days cruises down the Mexican coast. We were not supposed to be returning to Los Angeles when we first left port. I assume we will meet these ships somewhere on our journey in th...

Day Thirty Seven February11 Today is the last of nine straight sea days on the Oceania Insignia. Surprisingly the time has gone by rather quickly. We left Bora Bora at 16:00 February 2 to begin our journey back to Los Angeles. Here is a brief synopsis of what has happened during this time. For those who have not cruised, all cruise lines provide their passengers with a daily newspaper style paper reporting on the activities for the next day. Oceania's is cal...