Special request

I must have been tired last night, because I left out many of the most important aspects of my blog. So before I go any further here's my porthole picture from yesterday:

Breakfast was a very cheesy ham and cheese omelet and some good fresh melon. Lunch was fish and chips (I had fish but not chips), and dinner was thai spicy beef.

I slept in some this morning and ended up missing breakfast just by a hair. Then it was off to global studies (I don't know if I mentioned but EVERYONE has to take global studies) which is a little hard to do after staying up late in the library. I really felt like ditching, but now that I'm a fancy-pants faculty member I feel like I need to set a good example. Or maybe, now that I'm a fancy-pants faculty member I can hang out in the teacher's lounge and drink coffee instead... hmmm? At any rate I put on my name tag that has a bright red ribbon on the bottom that says "FACULTY" and went and set in and yawned and rubbed my eyes.

After that, I went back to my room and slept for awhile. I really feel like I'm back in college again, barely getting up for my first class going back to bed after it's over, working the circ desk at the library. It's fun. I also can't help thinking about how this is like being in a science fiction TV show. Being on the ocean is a lot like being in outer space, at least in the way that Star Trek the Next Generation has made me imagine being in outer space. I might just be in the mood for analogies because this mornings global studies lecture included a lengthy analogy about how political systems are like bus parts on a gymnasium floor.

So basically this experience is like being in college again, only in space.

I've started weeding the collection, this is very easy, because there's a lot of obvious choices. Namely, old out-of-date textbooks. I think I'm going to get these as a first pass, and then maybe go through again a little more carefully as time permits. Our student assistants are wonderful. They're learning everything very quickly, and seem to really like it in the library. Three of them have gone through LC easy (thanks Todd) and have decorated their certificates and hung them in the library. I can't say that I've ever worked with a more impressive, friendly bunch. As I suspected there is A LOT of male traffic in the library, mostly asking questions of the assistants like, "So, uh, what kind of books do you have."

Right now I'm in the library, it's about an hour till close. I'm feeling much more rested than yesterday thanks to rolling the clock back an hour and the post global studies snooze. I also chatted with Chris on the IM today. He's laid up with a painful ankle, and I get the feeling morale is low. If anyone feels like walking the dogs or taking him a casserole, I think he could use the company and assistance. But don't tell him I mentioned it.

Tonight I'm taking a special request from Todd, who asked for a cast of characters so you can picture who I'm talking about. That's way too much for one blog, but I thought I would do this as a regular feature. Tonight I'm introducing you to the most important person on the voyage Mary, the other librarian. She's traveling with her husband Kelly, and the day we get to
Honolulu it will not only be the 50th state they've travelled to together but also their twelfth wedding anniversary. So, that's pretty special. She was the librarian for the NCAA for years before going to the State Library of Indiana. She is an amazing librarian, and I would be a mess without her support. She's in the picture with our assistant April.

The porthole picture is special today, because the day was very grey starting out, but around 2:00pm the sun came out just enough to turn the water the most amazing blue I've even seen.

missed breakfast, like I said, but for lunch I had vegetable casserole (whenever you see me write casserole or stew this means yesterdays leftovers with sauce, but it's usually just as good if not better than the previous day) and greek salad which was good, but gave me onion breath big time. I had dinner in the dining hall on the fifth deck today, which is the first time I've done that. I was under the impression that it was not as nice, but actually it's much nicer. There's much more seating and an Omni-Hotel-brunch atmosphere. The Garden Lounge on the sixth deck is more like Ponderosa. It's the same food in both places, only I suspect when they serve ice cream it's only in one or the other. Mostly dessert is different kinds of cakes, which aren't a big temptation for me, so I usually don't have a problem passing it up. Tonight dinner was some kind of chinese chicken, mixed veggies, a sauerkraut salad that had cheese and roast beef in it (trying to hide leftovers I suspect), and clam chowder.

Tomorrow I'm doing a library instruction session in Mark Peterson's British History class. I think it's going to have to be brief so I'm going to try and focus on what you CAN do and not necessarily HOW you do it. But I have a couple of good searches to do in InfoTrac and Historical Abstracts if the internet is behaving.

First day of class + drinking

First day of classes went fine. I've been at the library more or less since 8:00 this morning and it's now 9:30pm. Mary worked a shift by herself in the middle, but I was still hanging around a little helping out. I'll be here in the library until 11:00pm. I'm tired. But my morale is good. I have two students with me now busily working on reserves. So I'm not alone.

Once the students are trained a little more, I'm anticipating leaving them here alone more. I'll double staff in the evening and just check in on them when I'm done in the lounge (just kidding).

Sitting in the library alone in the evening is a good way to meet the crew members. They aren't quite as busy so they stop by and visit a bit with me. I like the security crew members the best, they all look sort of severe and German.

Tonight was the first drinking night for the students. They sold tickets at the pursars desk, then there were drinks from 5-6 then again from 9-11. I can't tell how it's going, if they're behaving or not. The tickets sales were chaotic I think. The lines were so long, I heard some students saying they just gave up. The library opens out onto the main atrium above where the pursars desk is. It sounded like a football game, cheering and yelling. I definitely think Michael would want to experience that before he settles on his atrium idea.

One of my students just came in and said that it was like a frat party. She was grossed out.

I think I'm going to make this short. I'm sort of spaced out and tired. The ocean has been really rough today, a little bit of white caps.

Orientation Day

First of all, here's the porthole picture from this evening at about 7:30pm (1930).

Our current location is Latitude: 29 degrees 45.3N Longitude 125 degrees 10.9W. Speed 16.9 knots. Course 254 degrees. I know this, because there's a channel on the TV that has a map of our position and heading, and all of this information. This channel also plays the most awesomely weird music. It must be someone's demented ipod playlist. I've heard "Iko Iko," "Jungle Boy," lot's of song from the Flashdance soundtrack, lot's of Depeche Mode, right now it's "Betty Davis Eyes." Thank god for Jeremy's mix CD, or I'd be in big trouble. At noon everyday they do the "Noon Report" where they give information about our current position and speed, they also say where we are in relationship to the nearest land. Today it was some thousands of miles in relationship to Easter Island. That's weird. According to Jonny Hoebeke Hawaii is located further from any major land mass than any other island, and he would know because he's 14.

Today was the first real day with students, though they were in orientation most of the day. It was fun and exciting to have them around. We were very busy in the library, but we decided not to keep regular hours until tomorrow which is the first day of class. Mary and I spent the day putting things on reserve (despite the obvious success and efficiency of the electronic reserve system some of them still want hardcopies of articles and chapters on reserve, and in the tradition of UVa Libraries I'm not saying no.) People are already borrowing guide books. The students are wanting to check out videos. So far I've been saying, "No, just faculty and staff." This was the previous policy and I don't have a good enough feel for things yet to want to change that. I may loosen up a bit on this later on. The VHS tapes, which are 90% of the collection won't do them any good since the VCRs are all in classrooms. There aren't that many DVDs and I'm not sure if I have EVERYTHING that the faculty are going to want to show on reserve, yet.

I put a self-checkout sheet on the counter yesterday when we closed up, and there were several things written down this morning. Hopefully they're seeing it and using it. (Now they're playing the Spanish version of "Oh Mickey" on the TV). Dean Sisson gave the students the spiel on the honor code today. I haven't had a chance to talk to any of them about their impressions. She mentioned me in her talk as a resource for assistance with it. Hope I'm up to the task. I hadn't really anticipated how much of an ambassadorial role I would have. When Shamim and Karen Ryan get off in Honolulu, I'm going to be the lone UVa person (except for 3 students). So far I have to say though that anyone would be very hard pressed to find anything to complain about UVa. ALL of the faculty stuff is here and on reserve, everything is scanned and in their folders, access to the proxy account is a major revolution for learning and research, Shamim is unbelievably poised, professional and charming. I overheard some students saying, "Yeah bra, I heard it's going to be way harder since UVa has such high standards, way more than Pitt." Wahoo! Shamim told me she heard some students who were complaining a little about being told to discourage care packages from home, one of them said, "Well, what if I needed some books," and the others said, "Dude! There's a library, sha!" I don't think that's exactly how Shamim related the story but that's how I imagined it. Most of the faculty have independently told me how impressed they are with the UVa library and how much we pulled together at the last minute, and how on top of it we are. I'm taking all of the credit for now. If you want to bask in the glow you'll just have to come on a voyage.

The ship is rolling around some, so far I've been ok. It's just a vague ill feeling. A little headachey, and little queasy, sort of dizzy, cotton mouth. Like a mild hangover. Some kids are very ill. (Karma Chameleon on the TV) The sky was overcast and grey all day. Outside it's windy (duh) and chilly like mid-late October. Pleasantly chilly.

Here are some things that I've been thinking about today that have been unexpected:
Carrying your tray in the dining hall is really challenging on a moving ship
When you eat salad on the deck, your lettuce blows away
When you try to bend down to shave your legs in the shower you turn the water off with your butt.

I also had a couple of moments today when I got so busy doing library stuff that I forgot where I was, then when I looked out the window I thought "Man, it's really raining out there." But actually it's the ocean.

What an amazing proposition, to build a ship, get on it, and sail across the ocean. Even more amazing to bring a librarian and her laptop. By the way, my mom sent me a Nancy Pearl sushing librarian and I put that up behind the circ desk, she's a big hit. I also let my student workers put a book back there they found in the browsing collection, a
Fabio type bodice ripper called "The bride wore spurs." It's turned out to be a good marketing strategy because people see that and ask if we have leisure reading.

Last night for dinner I had salad (but it blew away, more dressing next time), roast beef, a bit dry but good and green beans.
Breakfast of omelets, watermelon, and bacon.
Lunch was delicious lentil stew, roast chicken and salad
Dinner was sirloin steak filet, brussell sprouts and bean sprout salad. I also had a big dollop of peanut butter for dessert.

I should mention I've only been mentioning the food I've been eating. There's almost always 2 different kinds of pasta, two meats (usually one of them fish) and two vegetarian options, as well as a potato dish, a vegetable, salad bar, dessert, and rolls. Today was the first time I saw something sketchy in the buffet: Fisherman's pie for lunch (just didn't look right, and I've never heard of fisherman's pie) and beets for dinner (beets are wrong).

First day of class tomorrow, or as it's referred to here A1.
(We've got the beat)

Ensenda, Mexico

I woke up this morning to the "arf, arf, arf" of the seals in the harbor in Ensenada. I remember waking up briefly during the night, and being aware that we were still moving. We must have come down here slow. We docked around 7:00, I'd say. They served breakfast early this morning so that the people helping with check-in could get fed. I didn't make it, in fact I pulled my blind and got a couple more hours of sleep, because it is Sunday afterall.

I met up with Mary in the library and we got all of the reserves up that didn't need to be cataloged. I created brief records for a few of the films that won't be added to the permanent collection. I was holding off on doing some of this hoping that the barcodes would come, but I can hold out no longer. We went ahead and used the Pitt barcodes, but we'll replace them when we get new ones.

We closed up the library around noon and went to lunch: beef stew, pork tenderloins, salad, chicken consome and vegetable ragout (I missed breakfast I was hungry). Then Karen (IT woman) and I went into Ensenada. We walked around and looked at the shops, went to the fish market (didn't smell too good). There were a lot of rowdy college kids which I'm guessing are our students. They started arriving at the ship around 9:00 or so two busloads at a time. The last 10 students are boarding now. Which is kind of cutting it close since on ship time is in 3 minutes. We're having a lifeboat drill in an hour and then leaving for Hawaii at 5:00pm.

I didn't get sea sick at all, I don't know if the sea bands did the trick, or if I'm just not inclined.

I'm feeling kind of low energy today. I think the excitement of last night, plus too many days without a day off. I'm going to try to have an early night. We're sailing early, so I can be up for that, without having to be up too late.

Here are some pictures to jazz up my post, since I'm well aware that this one isn't that great.

A picture from where I'm sitting and writing my blog right now:














A street scene in Ensenada:















Our ship in the distance from Ensenada, and a view from my porthole this afternoon:

That ship has sailed

To heck with everything else, tonight we sailed. At about 2300 we cast off from San Diego, and now we're on our way to Ensenada. There was a life boat drill, that consisted of everyone dressing in closed toes shoes and warm clothes and putting on their life vest, assembling in the union, a roll call and that's it. Then most of us went to the faculty/staff lounge and waited for the ship to shove off. A tugboat came and pulled (pushed?) us away from the dock and then... well, we were off. Some students (work-studies) were up on the seventh deck with music and were dancing a bit. The wind was blowing. The atmosphere was reserved, yet festive. I have my sea bands on and I'm feeling ok. I can DEFINTITELY feel the ship moving, though. It feels like being in a car with someone who's learning how to drive. I know it's that we're rocking fore and aft, but it feels more like speeding up and slowing down. Not unpleasant, but also not ignorable.

The rocking is getting heavier now

Now I can say in answer to all of you who asked me, "Are you getting excited?" Yes.

Here is a picture out of my port hole in San Diegeo this afternoon:

Last night in San Diego

Today was mostly the same as yesterday, except for the food, which I will update you on at the end of the message.

No boxes came, Chris and Jean scrambled around to get me tracking numbers, but it turns out that there was some weather delay and the boxes ware scanned en route in LA late last night. UPS couldn't or wouldn't do anything to track them further, and said that we couldn't reroute them (directly to the port agent or to Honolulu) until there was an arrival scan. I haven't decided if its time to go to plan B, and what plan B might entail or if I'll just keep the dream alive at least until we leave Hawaii.

The main exciting thing about today was that the 25 students who will be work-studies on the voyage arrived. The library is getting six, all sweet, pretty girls. So I know that the library will be well trafficked by the male students. I liked them all instantly, and gave them a little customer service talk which they seemed to respond to. Tomorrow after breakfast they'll be reporting for duty. They're committed to 200 hours of service for which they receive a $6500 credit to their tuition. That's not a bad deal. I'll be putting them to work initially with some shelf-reading, straightening out the book donations, doing some work with the records of the travel books (some are in the system as reference, some as reserve, some as travel). Some other odd jobs, too. I'm not going to train them in circulation yet because 1) the patron database isn't loaded and 2) I don't really know how to use it that well myself, yet.

Another little accomplishment today was I got all of the "donated" textbooks off-loaded from the ship as well as some other donations that looked liked they'd out lived their usefulness. If there's not a better plan for the textbooks at the end of the voyage I'll try to arrange to have them removed at the end too. I don't know in the last minute chaos if I'll have time. That's something nice, it's pretty easy to get stuff removed from your life, especially if you drag it all out so it's an eye-sore and safety hazard.

I could have spent a few more hours in the library this evening, probably. But I knocked off about 6:30 after I'd met my work-studies and went and met Alden Jones for dinner at this nice, fancy mall near the harbor. The ship is really nice, and there's not that many people on board, yet, but it still can feel kind of cramped. I really needed to get off for a bit, and I think I'm going to make a mental note that getting outside and getting some exercise everyday is essential for my sanity.

When I got back from dinner, I noticed Shamim Sisson in one of the rooms talking with Bob Viera, the executive dean. She's here to give the students the drill on the Honor Code. It was really nice to see her, someone from home. She'll be with the ship until Honolulu.

Now I'm in my room, and I plan on making it an early night after a little TV (I've gotta get my final fix), and crosswords. It's going to be a Donna-Reed-in-It's-a-Wonderful-Life librarian night, not a Parker-Posey-in-Party-Girl librarian night.

Breakfast: Mushroom and Ham Omelet and Bacon
Lunch: Pork Chops and broccoli and cauliflower
Dinner: Off the ship, Shredded beef tacos with beans and rice (very delicious)

Sorry about the lack of post yesterday, but here's a catch up. Wednesday morning I had scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast and then went back to the library where Barbie had left me a "Pine Bud" Drink and goodbye note. I almost had a panic attack, but pulled through. I didn't have any boxes or barcodes or scanners, so I spent the morning shelf reading and bugging people about my boxes. After lunch which was grilled grouper and green beans the faculty and remainder of the staff boarded the ship. I suddenly went from complete newbie to veteran. It was nerve wracking to have them there, and to suddenly realize I had to be "THE LIBRARIAN." It was also very interesting to put faces to all of the names I had been emailing for months. I couldn't have been more wrong about many of them, as far as how I had pictured them. Someone I had pictured as a 60-ish balding, yet distinguished gentleman was actually a 30 year old hipster woman. I met the assistant librarian, Mary, and her husband, Kelly and we all went to the union for an introductory orientation. Then there was a nice reception with fondue and tiny sandwiches in the faculty/staff lounge. Then dinner, which was minute steaks and mixed veggies, and a very productive faculty meeting. Then social hour where you can use your room key/ship id/debit card to buy drinks, or as some people call it "the magic drinking card."

Today it was a little hard to get out of bed, but I started the day with more scrambled eggs and delicious cornbeef hash. I brought my own mug to breakfast and had a giant cup of coffee. Then it was more faculty meetings and faculty/staff meetings, then lunch (chicken curry YUM! and broccoli and cauliflower). Then miracle of miracles my boxes arrived. Everything that was in the original shipment of 14 boxes came, plus the box with the barcode scanners and a box with a few videos. Mary and I spent most of the rest of the day going through the boxes and putting things on reserve. The new barcode scanners work, so now if I just get my box with the barcodes in it I'll be all set. So now I anxiously awaiting the remaining boxes which have barcodes, videos, proxy logins, paper reserves, and maybe some other things that I don't remember. Maybe ask St. Anthony to help my boxes come tomorrow. Mary and I worked until 9:00pm and put her husband to work as well. He spent at least an hour today trying to figure out an easy way to export the Winnebago records into XML or something. The reports in Winnebago are very limited and it doesn't seem to be possible to select on location or circulation statistics or fund or anything that would be useful to weeding or inventory.

I bugged the IT lady all day about getting my computer to work with the internet. All the other Mac people were online no problem. No one could figure it out. At one point they said "Hurray your computer is online." But it really wasn't. This evening I was upstairs in the lounge and I noticed a couple of Mac people happily googling things in the corner, and I went over and asked if they could get me on. So Joe the textbook guy worked and worked and finally got it to work. I wouldn't say he figured it out, because it's inexplicable. You have to clear out all of the network settings, like ip/subnet/ etc. It can't list anything there. Then you click "renew DHCP lease" then lock the settings. Ta Da. Hopefully this has solved it once and for all. So going up to lounge was actually one of the most productive things all day. I'm writing this now from the comfort of my bed.

I'm making friends, and getting to know people. It's amazing how quickly you get to know people, actually. I like almost everybody, and today when I spoke briefly in the faculty/staff meeting everyone laughed at my jokes (If you don't know what a librarian is you should come and see me right away... Ha Ha HA HA!!). So I instantly liked all of them.

I was going to post some pictures, but it doesn't seen to be working. I'll play around with that tomorrow, and if all else fails I'll put some things in photobucket.

pictures

The ship:

More the ship:

The sketchy stairs into the ship:

My cabin:

Day Two in San Diego

Barbie and I really tried to have a productive day today, but things just didn't work out that well for us. The coast guard were on board doing drills. All of the crew were involved with that in some way or another, in fact many of them got into the lifeboats and motored around the ship a bit. We took refuge in the bookstore for awhile and when we got out part of the power to the ship was out and the internet wasn't working. But we did manage to get done what we needed to. I got a bit of shelf-reading done besides.

The computer guy couldn't get my Mac on the internet, but it seems like there's some issue with Mac and the ip address randomly changing? or something? I've been assured that when the ISE computer guys show up they'll be able to get it working. I'm somewhat concerned that I'll need to have IE on my computer, which I don't. I should try getting on with Virtual PC. I'll do that tomorrow.

The library books still are nowhere to be found, but I think the Coast Guard has disrupted the normal flow. There's boxes all over the place, but I haven't managed to find the particular cache of library stuff. I'll have a more thorough search tomorrow.

The ship is a cross between the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D and camp trailer. Things are futuristic looking and high tech in an early 90's kind of way, but also the doors are all very heavy and there's high thresholds. Odd things have latches on them, like my grandpa's Prowler. It's very nice, and I really like it. The crew is VERY VERY nice. I want to find out how they do their customer service training and try to implement some of that back home. Many of them know my name already and wave enthusiastically whenever they see me. It's disconcerting now, but I know I'm going to take right to it.

I get a few channels of TV in my cabin. Some closed circuit ISE channels and the local NBC and CBS and public access. This morning the San Diego weather man said, "It's going to be hot and sultry today. It's already 69 degrees. Humid air will be moving in off the ocean and with a high of 81 it's going to feel pretty awful. This hot muggy weather makes it feel like waking up in New Mexico." What?

Barbie and I just got back from a wonderful trip to Coronado Island and the Hotel del Coronado. We had wine outside on the beachside and burgers. Then walked down to the beach where the Navy Seals were doing some kind of training in the icy water. It was quite chilly feeling to me. We shared a cab back to downtown with a cute couple from Detroit who were smooching the whole time. I bid farewell to Barbie who's leaving at 0dark:30 tomorrow morning.

Breakfast was Huevos con Chorizo at a local diner and lunch on the ship was a good chicken casserole, green beans and roasted squash (yum).

The MV Explorer

I'm in the library on ship right now. It's probably about 7:30 or so, and I'm exhausted. Jill and Les from ISE were on my flight out here, and the helped me figure everything out once I got to San Diego. The airport is VERY close to where the ship is and it was a quick jaunt to the ship. I got on board and there were still summer students milling around outside, I found the library right away, but couldn't find Barbie. Some nice folks found me though, and showed me where to get lunch which was cafeteria style. I had some iceberg lettuce and tomato salad with ranch and a piece of fish and some grilled vegetables. The crew in the dining area were very friendly and helpful.

After lunch I had to bring my luggage on board which was spooky. You go through security like at the airport and they open your bags, but then you have to carry them up the huge wobbly stair case (photo coming soon). Some people came to my rescure, luckily.

I found Barbie right away, and not a moment too soon. She showed me what to do to get registered and got me help with my bags. My room isn't as swanky as hers. Two twin beds, a vanity and a tiny bathroom. It's ok, but we're going to talk to Cathy tomorrow to see if I can just have Barbie's old room.

Barbie and I worked in the library for a few hours. We did a little basic orientation, then loaded the VIRGO records (which seemed to work). I forgot to bring a barcode scanner, but Erin's going to get a couple overnighted here. I don't have any of the books or other boxes yet. Jill said they're probably on board, but there's some sort of Coast Guard drill that will prevent them from bringing them to the library for a couple of days (someone ask Doug Hurd).

Barbie and I went for a walk and had a drink, then she went out with the administrative team from the summer trip. I had dinner at a little convenience store/deli place and had a diet cherry pepsi and a pastrami and swiss sandwich.

Now I'm trying to decide between staying up until Barbie get back or going to my room where there's fuzzy ABC and NBC, and going to sleep. I think I'm going to sleep.

My computer won't connect to the wireless network, but the computer guys going to take a look at it. When he gets it going I'll post some pictures of the ship.

Last minute

Today is my last day at work before I leave. Eventhough I feel like I've been working hard these past few weeks and trying not to leave anything until the last minute, there's a lot going on at the last minute anyway. Today I'm going through my email inbox making sure I haven't forgotten anything. We're putting together a couple of boxes to overnight to the San Diego, mostly things for the library's collection that arrived in the past few days, and professors print reserves. I'm getting a video camera from the DML, and need to learn how to use it. I've downloaded some audiobooks.

I'm mostly packed, there's still a couple more things I'll want to throw in my suitcases. I'm sure that I'm taking more than I really need to, but it seems like more effort at this point figuring out what I really NEED, than just taking it all.

I'm getting ready to go back and enhance my itinerary blog with links to wikitravel, so you might want to check that one again. After you look at those and get familiar with the wikitravel format you should read the entry on the US. Kind of weird... America sounds scary.

The Itinerary

Here is my first official post for my voyage with Semester at Sea. I hope to post regularly. Just briefly here is my anticipated itinerary:
August 21 Depart Richmond, VA for San Diego, CA
August 21 Arrive San Diego, CA
August 27 Depart Ensenada Mexico for Honolulu, HI
September 2 0700 Arrive Honolulu, HI
September 2 2300 Depart Honolulu, HI
September 12 0800 Arrive Kobe, Japan
September 16 2200 Depart Kobe, Japan
September 19 0800 Arrive Qingdao, China
I will then be going to Beijing and will rejoin the ship in Hong Kong September 23
September 2300 Depart Hong Kong
September 27 1100 Arrive Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
October 2 0600 Depart Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Ocotober 7 1615 Arrive Yangon, Myanmar
October 12 1600 Depart Yangon, Myanmar
October 15 0800 Arrive Chennai, India
October 19 2300 Depart Chennai, India
October 30 2030 Arrive Adabiya, Egypt
November 1 2200 Depart Adabiya, Egypt
November 2 Suez Canal
November 3 0800 Arrive Alexandria, Egypt
November 4 2300 Depart Alexandria, Egypt
November 7 0800 Arrive Istanbul, Turkey
November 11 2300 Depart Istanbul, Turkey
November 14 0800 Arrive Dubrovnik, Croatia
November 18 2200 Depart Dubrovnik, Croatia
November 23 0800 Arrive Cadiz, Spain
November 27 2300 Depart Cadiz, Spain
December 7 0800 Arrive Fort Lauderdale, FL