When Princess Cruises describes their sailings as “a relaxed, rejuvenating retreat at sea”, the image of a young woman wearing a tiara “riding” a large inflatable penis around the crowded Golden Princess Piazza as if it’s a stick horse is not what my mind conjures up. Perhaps I have a different idea of what “relaxed and rejuvenating” mean when…
Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to take a three night cruise on Princess Cruises’ Golden Princess. It was a round-trip sailing from Los Angeles (San Pedro) with a port stop in Ensenada, Mexico. I’ve been reviewing the cruise over the past week and today we’ll discuss the ship’s activities and amenities. If…
One of my favorite parts of “just wandering” when I travel is how I accidentally stumble upon interesting local experiences just by being present. In June, I was on Seabourn Odyssey and we made a port stop in Varna, Bulgaria. This was one of the places where I did not make travel plans and instead just…
All that sea air always causes me to work up a bit of an appetite when I’m on a cruise. Or at least that’s what I tell myself! Today we hit the midpoint of my review of my three-night Mexican escape on Golden Princess a couple of weeks ago. * Part I – How Did I…
Back to my Mexican quickie… my short cruise from Los Angeles to Ensenada on Golden Princess, that is. When we last left off at the end of part I, I had boarded the Golden Princess for a three-night cruise, my first time on Princess Cruises. * Part I – How Did I Get Here?! – planning…
I have always had a knack for seeking out unique experiences when I travel. This may go back to the earliest days of my international travels when I was still in high school. Back then, I was obsessed with politics. I’d go on school trips to Austin and manage to grab a casual photo with Ann Richards….
A recent three night Mexican quickie has me asking the question – how did I get here??!! I wasn’t always the kind of girl who wrote cruise reviews. Heck, I wasn’t the kind of girl who went on cruises until last year. When and how did that happen? My recent quickie cruise on Golden Princess…
I’ve been going back through my old blog looking to see if there is anything there I feel like salvaging for here – it feels weird that Jetsetter’s Homestead is a “clean slate” when I have five years of prior content (2005-2009) out there on a locked-down website. But then I read a paragraph like…
There is a first time for everything. In terms of travel, I’ve been doing it so long (and so frequently) that those first time incidents are becoming increasingly more bizarre. I had not one, but TWO of them yesterday. And I’m curious to hear your thoughts on one of them – did I overreact? In…
It’s Throwback Thursday and time for another retro trip report. This one takes us back to early August 2008. That was a big change year for me… I was eight months into owning the house I had at this point dubbed “the money pit”. My (then) business partner had a 9-month old little girl at home and we…
This post was originally posted in August of 2005 on my old (long-gone chances are, you ever saw it so it’s new for here) blog. A few things have changed – I’m now an hour from the airport (back then it was 15 minutes from driveway to terminal) and I have better technology (I travel…
I blogged for four years (2005-2009) on a different platform. That blog is gone now, but I still have all my posts and I recently decided to reread some of my writing from that period of my life. I’m going to be sharing some of the classics, particularly trip reports. This report is from one of my many Bali…