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...