I travel a lot.  A lot.  I traveled for 2 years via bus.  I’ve been on a ship for well over 3 years.  I love taking trains.  And I fly frequently out of necessity.  But I had never flown in a helicopter.  Until recently. I’ve written before about how Jamaica […]

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a life beyond ships. A life beyond travel.  I have not gone more than 2 months without taking a trip since early 2007.   My name is Valerie and I am a travel addict. I often say that working on a ship is not a […]

I know I post mainly about fun things I do off the ship, but I get to do some pretty amazing stuff on the ship too. This is a video of me doing the zipline here on the Allure.  Yes, I said zipline.  We have a zipline.  On a ship. […]

Swimming with dolphins was never on my bucket list.  But that’s probably because I don’t really have a bucket list – except skydiving, maybe bungee jumping or cliff diving – anyway… Lots of people say swimming with dolphins is “a once in a lifetime experience.”  Why?  Did they die immediately […]

I don’t get off the ship much in Jamaica.  Sometimes I just need a day to sleep, do laundry, or catch up on work.  Plus there isn’t much to do in the port of Falmouth and there was that whole Corn Dogs and Robbery episode of last year.  But when my […]

I took this job in the Caribbean to get out of 25℉ weather, but two weeks ago I voluntarily put myself back in it when I visited Magic Ice in St. Thomas.  Magic Ice is an ice gallery and bar:  ice walls, ice artwork, ice gazebo, ice slide, a literal bar […]

What was the first?  If you don’t remember joster (aka boat jousting) you can catch up here. This one was seemingly tame.  How crazy is a horse race?  Well when said horse race is Palio di Siena, pretty crazy. I had heard of Siena before- I can’t tell you why […]

I can’t  believe it’s been so long since I’ve written.  I know, I say that far to often.  I really do need to write more.  Life has a funny way of getting in the way of my life.  Wait, what?  Just when I think I have it figured out or […]

I arrived in the French Riviera on the largest and most expensive yacht in town.  Too bad I don’t own this ship.  I could stay here all the time- or all of you could come party on it with me. For now I must settle for working on it and […]

Saturday- Parc Guell, Barcelona, Spain There is so much to see and do in Barcelona yet I some how get trapped into doing the same thing week after week- lunch and internet.  I finally decided that I need to start seeing some of the places I’ve been looking forward too- […]

The last thing most people want to do after an All Crew Party is get up early to go out in the sun.  I love my sleep and since I was working at the party until around 2 am, the thought of being on a 9:30 am ferry was not […]

6:59 am?  Didn’t I set an alarm for super early today? I think for like 6:15 am or something like that.  Why?  Where do I have to be?  What is happening today?  Oh yeah, I’m on a tour to Pompeii.  I need to meet my group at 7:00 am.  Oh […]