Shoes! Today I have to put on shoes. After not wearing them for three weeks,well we were wearing sandals. We did a couple more days in Samoa visiting the "trench" which is a 100 foot deep sink hole that fills with sea water and is tidal so at high tide it is deep enough to jump off the ladder leading down to it, but we were there during low tide so we meaning my new running bud David from Austrailia just had a quick swim into the cave of the dripping se...

Day two in California we find ourselves in Santa Monica. Yesterday we flew into LAX and got a car and drove over to the Queen Mary for our first night here. We have stayed here before and this is the busiest we have ever seen it. They have new management and have built a cruise terminal next door so there are many improvements on the ship. Once here I hardly ever leave the ship as it is a destination in it self. Being hotel guest you have complete run of the ship...