Ft. Lauderdale, United States Travel Blogs

wrong bus
Jan 12, 2008 (2 photos)

Tuvimos 7 horas libres para transferir de un avion a otro solo unas fotos de nosotros. We had a 7 hour layover just a few pics of us. this is called wrong bus because we tried taking a shuttle from one terminal to another, but in our haste we ...

Arriving in Florida...and leaving for the Caribbea
Feb 17, 2007 (7 photos)

We arrived in Ft. Lauderdale around 1:30 pm and, thankfully, our luggage arrived with us in spite of everything. The taxi ride to Fort Everglades was short and uneventful and Holland America checked us in with brisk efficiency.  Before we knew it, ...

Leaving the USA for Bogata, Columbia
Aug 7, 2007 (4 photos)

Haven't left just yet...

Departure
Jan 9, 2007 (1 photos)

We boarded the ship mid-afternoon. We had lunch at Compass Rose while waiting for our luggage to be delivered to our cabin. It started arriving as soon as we finished lunch, and we broke the rule about waiting until they announced time to go to ...

Christmas in Florida and Virginia
Dec 15, 2005

We went home to see our friends and family for Christmas. We didn't want to miss another Hyman Christmas party so we departed from Penang in enough time to make the party. We spent only 6 days in Florida seeing Alex's family and some of our friends and ...

langerado!
Mar 8, 2007

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And we're off...
Apr 4, 2004 (3 photos)

... , and until the 10th at least, this is now my travel blog: a tale of a woman at sea with 2000 lesbians. Arrived in Ft. Laudedale last yesterday evening and have spent and uneventful day tooling around town, preparing to board the Big Boat of Beans mid-day ...

Return to Ft. Lauderdale
Feb 24, 2007

... nbsp; Two lonely cats were very glad to see us...but I'm already itching to plan our next trip abroad. Total mileage: Ft. Lauderdale to Grand Turk - 588 nautical miles Grand Turk to Tortola - 415 nautical miles Tortola to St. Thomas - 104 nautical ...

Disembarkation
Apr 10, 2004

... Lido was packed. The poor staff looked really frazzled. We took our breakfast back to our cabin and ate it away from the crowds. Ft. Lauderdale was hot, humid and overcast. The city seemed to have the same feeling that we did that day, bah. While we ...

Stage 2 of Adventure
May 8, 2005 (7 photos)

Hi Guys We have embarked on stage 2 of our mini adventure. We were transferred down to Miami by Princess Cruises and in order that we arrived in style the coach company Mears sent a 52 seater coach - nicely appointed for our comfort - to drive us the ...

Life On Board
Apr 29, 2007 (84 photos)

World Cruise 2007 April 29, 2007 Life on Board Our bed/sitting room We've lived on this ship, the Regent Seven Seas Voyager, for 110 days (minus the 3 weeks we went to Lynchburg). It's been an interesting experience: we've shared (John and I) a ...

Two Weeks in Florida!
Jul 12, 2005 (7 photos)

We spent two weeks in Florida with our wonderful hosts, Sally and Richard Cummings (Greg's sister and her husband). South Florida is quite a flip side to India - very tidy, a quiet neighborhood, many big SUV's and even bigger houses. The weather was a ...

Cruise Day!
Apr 3, 2004 (6 photos)

... . Finally they freed us and we all trooped back to our cabins to drop off the life jackets. At 5pm, we sailed out of Ft. Lauderdale and enjoyed the sail away party. By then, we'd started drinking the "Drink of the day" which on Saturday, was vodka, ...

Air and Sea Show
May 5, 2007 (26 photos)

... ', Alyse and Steve, house in Ft. Lauderdale.  They have a beautiful 4 story home right on Ft. Lauderdale Beach somewhere between Sunrise and Oakland Blvd. Today was the Air and Sea show so their patio over the ...

Starting Point
Nov 10, 2006

I'm on my way! The work will be hard and I'm definitely concerned about pulling it off. But I am more excited about the adventure to the Middle East! I've always wanted to visit and if I had more than one day to plan ahead for this trip I would have ...

ft. lauderdale
May 2, 2007

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And so it ends...
Apr 10, 2004 (9 photos)

... self finds me in the calm of my stateroom again, sitting on the little verandah with the laptop, back at port in Ft. Lauderdale where we arrived a couple hours ago. We're all waiting for the loudspeaker to start calling the disembarkation numbers, which ...

Hooters and Howling at the Moon
May 11, 2007

Finally found Dylan at his Red Roof motel in Ft Lauderdale at about 9pm, we were pretty shattered after the day and the drive and really just wanted food and bed..... Dylan had other ideas!  Went 'downtown' in Ft L to Hooters ... had to do it guys, ...

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Feb 25, 2007 (3 photos)

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Ft. Lauderdale
Jan 3, 2007

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Ft. Lauderdale
Apr 2, 2004

... 's Sheraton points to stay at the hotels, and they tend to be very nice to Platinum Sheraton members. My wife grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, so we rented a car and did the old home tour on Friday. She drove around and I scenery watched while we visited her ...

Our getaway is here!!
Apr 10, 2009 (4 photos)

... , we FINALLY set sail!!! On the top deck, we stood and watched the people and ships all around us. The skyline of Ft. Lauderdale grew smaller, and people stood outside their million dollar waterfront homes waving goodbye to our ship. It's a lot of fun. ...

Disembarkation, Ft. Lauderdale
Apr 30, 2007

World Cruise End. We're finished, no more entries for us! It was a great trip! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Sails on...
Apr 27, 2005

Each day we are getting a little closer to leaving... Today we have put up the stay sail and the Genoa (the front sail), atached the anchor and just messed around doing small jobs like cleaning etc. It's a rainy day here but it's hotter than ever as there ...

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Apr 25, 2005

Just correcting the map. ingnore this entry

Quote
May 1, 2005

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

So this is Christmas
Apr 25, 2005 (1 photos)

... I slept that night in the bar car so i could stretch out. Last Friday (today is monday) the train finally pulled up to Ft Lauderdale 3 and a half hours late at 7.05pm. I grabbed all my stuff and walked up the platform with a slight hangover and met up ...

goodbye america
May 6, 2005

... the boat every now and then to take my mind of it. So we left on wednesday 5th of may on an overcast day out of Ft Lauderdale. The sun was rising and so was my excitement. We waited for the 7am causeway bridge opening and then left the harbor. After a ...

The Waiting Game
Jun 6, 2006 (2 photos)

... our preparations just in time for the wind to quit and the water turn to glass. And that was the extent of Alberto in Ft. Lauderdale. We survived our first Tropical Storm. Alberto never got closer than 300 miles of us. I'd hoped that we would be more ...

Florida
Dec 7, 2006 (8 photos)

Well, after a million good byes, Dave's family took in myself and Brett squared to their little palace in Fort Lauderdale where we stayed for a couple nights.  We slept in during the days, and went out on the strip at night.  What more could you ...