Two days but we finally made it home. The grounding of the 737 MAX planes have definitely messed up flight schedules, vut we are now here. I hope you found our blog and photos interesting. Until the next trip.

After 50 days, we are back in Fort Lauderdale. Now for several flights to get home.

Our last stop on the 50-day cruise --- Philipsburg, St. Maarten. We stayed in town and walked the streets. Dozens of high-end jewellery stores on Front Street and plenty of bars along the Boardwalk. The Boardwalk separates the shops and bars from the beach which stretches for 2 or more km. Beautiful sand and turquoise water. Neat and clean despite the severe hurricane in late 2017. Merchants are fairly aggressive.

Castries is the capital of St. Lucia with a population of 50,000 of the total for the island of 170,000. We took a taxi tour of Castries and the north end of the island which included some great viewpoints and mountain roads to Pigeon Island in the north. We left the taxi and toured the cathedral and downtown before returning to the ship. This is quite a nice island. Neat and clean with great scenery and plenty of beaches and resorts. Castries has many sho...

Exited the Amazon today. Largest river in the world. In some places it is 23 km. wide. It is hard to get a sense of the size since for the last day we have really been on the Amazon delta which consists of several arms of the river before the ship actually reaches the Atlantic.