March 12-14 Taj trip… I spent March 12-14th up in Northern India visiting Delhi and Agra. Agra is where the Taj Mahal is, the star of our trip. It was another really great experience, tough and demanding but a great experience. I know I say that everything is a great experience but they all are. The first day was exhausting…we met in the Union at 3am to depart the ship and head to the airport.Our flight was at 6am and we arrived in Delhi around 8:30...

Arrival and first glimpses of India… I've been procrastinating on writing my blogs for India because I'm not even sure where to begin….I'm just going to sit down and write what comes to me and hope that I am able capture even a fraction of what I have experienced in the past few days. Before I really start…I want to say that I loved India…I'm not sure anymore what I thought I knew about India before I came here but I now realize that I...

We are about 6 hours from reaching Chennai, India. If I haven't said it enough, I'm really looking forward to this. We had our final Pre-Port preparations tonight and the ship is buzzing, even well after midnight. Tomorrow will be a ton of administrative work to get the ship cleared; then I plan on heading out into the port city for awhile and will be attending a welcome reception in the evening. My trip to Delhi and Agra leaves at 0330 the next day. I won't be...

(The image for this blog entry is from Sri Lanka, since we're passing by Sri Lanka today.) Passage to India…we're at sea now, 2 days out from India and this has been a pretty nice stretch at sea for me. Some of the more experienced staff have said that our passage to India is typically a tough time for the shipboard community as we approach the half-way point of our journey, but I think things are going pretty well. We've all settled in to as much of a rou...