{"id":5868,"date":"2025-01-10T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasing-sunsets.blog\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2025-01-10T13:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:42:52","slug":"world-cruise-lets-call-it-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasing-sunsets.blog\/?p=5868","title":{"rendered":"World Cruise – let\u2019s call it Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Thanks for joining us on our Viking Sky World Cruise!<\/p>

We are learning so much about world cruise traveling –<\/p>

  • Sea days are time to catch up on naps as the gentle rolling of the ship lulls you to sleep<\/li>
  • Cruises are notorious for catching a cough or cold – which we caught like everyone else<\/li>
  • You squeeze in as much as you can on port days<\/li>
  • Shore excursions offer time to see some sites but certainly not all a port city offers<\/li>
  • 5 continuous days at sea is challenging but you can get into a rhythm of activities and routines<\/li><\/ul>

    Since my last post, after the Panama Canal and two sea days, we stopped in Cabo san Lucas, had two sea days to Los Angeles followed by a trek across the Pacific towards Hawaii.<\/p>

    In Los Angeles, we went to Beverly Hills (2 days before devastating wildfires hit the area) and quick trip to Long Beach to check that out before sailing away.<\/p>

    Traveling to Hawaii we had 5 sea days filled with lectures, trivia (our team won one of the days!), great food, spa days and good conversations with experience Viking travelers.<\/p>

    Seas to Hawaii has been labled “rough” with 10 foot to 12 foot seas, but the Viking sky handled them well so far.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    \"Cabo
    Cabo st Lucas around the pier - waterfront fountain with surf boards<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Good
    Good view above Todos Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Love
    Love birds in Todos Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Say
    Say hello to my new friend Hercules<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Hercules
    Hercules was a character!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Departing
    Departing CaBO<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Departing
    Departing Cabo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"early
    early morning yoga on Sea day<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Sea
    Sea Day sunrise<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Getting
    Getting ready for one of many good lectures<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Our
    Our docking at San Pedro pier in LA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"90210!!\"
    90210!!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Lobby
    Lobby of Beverly Wishire hotel. No pretty girl checking in \u2639\ufe0f<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Beautiful
    Beautiful day at Rodeo drive<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Gina,
    Gina, my pretty woman, in Beverly-Cannon gardens near Rodeo Drive Beverly Hills<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Church
    Church of the good shepherd in Beverly Hills <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Beverly-Cannon
    Beverly-Cannon gardens still had Christmas life<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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    Beverly Wilshire Hotel - maybe see a pretty woman here<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
    \"Pacific
    Pacific Coast sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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    Thanks for joining us on our Viking Sky World Cruise! We are learning so much about world cruise traveling – Sea days are time to catch up on naps as the gentle rolling of the ship lulls you to sleep Cruises are notorious for catching a cough or cold – which we caught like everyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230351823,"featured_media":5861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[200,50518550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","category-world-cruise-24-25"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peuwlC-1wE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4131,"url":"https:\/\/chasing-sunsets.blog\/?p=4131","url_meta":{"origin":5868,"position":0},"title":"Viking World Cruise: 29 Countries in 138 Days","author":"Jim and Gina Sumislaski","date":"July 5, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the first post about the upcoming World Cruise. 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