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Pru Warren
Nov 1, 20243 min read
Frank Said It Best
Nov. 1, 2024 (Friday!) “It’s very nice to go travlin’, with just a toothbrush and comb. It’s very nice go go travlin', but it’s oh so...
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Pru Warren
Oct 26, 20244 min read
Better than Emirates First Class. Seriously.
Oct. 27 (Sunday) Honestly, I thought I was a world-class money-spender. A classic spendthrift. But I am NOTHING compared to my sister....
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Pru Warren
Oct 25, 20245 min read
Rigid Flexibility
Oct. 26, 2024 (Saturday) This is the town of Murcheson, New Zealand—a real going concern. Population 513 since Twig, Harry, and I...
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Pru Warren
Oct 24, 20244 min read
Defining Beauty
Oct. 25 (Friday) I’ve discovered a commonality in what I think is stunningly beautiful: I really like steep mountains sloping down into...
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Pru Warren
Oct 23, 202411 min read
I Like It Here!
Oct. 24 (Thursday) The plan to separate 52 travelers from the NG Orion was only entertainingly complex if you’d had enough sleep the...
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Pru Warren
Oct 23, 20241 min read
Sound Asleep in Paradise
Oct. 23 (Wednesday) I am WAY too tired to blog tonight, so let me sum up by saying: I must move to the South Island of New Zealand...
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Pru Warren
Oct 22, 20243 min read
Pre-Dawn Musings
Oct 23 (Wednesday)—middle of the night Perhaps you were aware that all those Lord of the Rings movies were filmed in New Zealand. That...
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Pru Warren
Oct 21, 20242 min read
Kia Ora! (New Zealand's 'Howdy, pard!')
Oct. 22 (Tuesday) Ain’t it always the way? Here’s the blurb from an exhibit in the Maori Museum at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds: “When...
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Pru Warren
Oct 20, 20241 min read
Want to Hear the Song?
Oct. 21 (Monday) A day at sea. This means…naps! And lounging in the sun, reading and alternately watching for whales, which did not...
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Pru Warren
Oct 20, 20244 min read
Out of Nothing--Something!
Oct. 20, 2024 (Sunday) Go ahead—try to find Norfolk Island on a map. I'll wait. Good luck. I’ve spent most of the day on a rock in the...
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Pru Warren
Oct 19, 20244 min read
Any Chance I Get
Oct. 19 (Saturday) I hosted a hootenanny in the South Pacific. Our “day at sea” featured some lectures in the morning, but the...
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Pru Warren
Oct 18, 20246 min read
Sea Serpents of the Briny (not at all) Deep
Oct. 18, Friday There is NO WAY I saw sea snakes today. No way. But…ew. What the hell ARE those things??! We arrived on Lifou in New...
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Pru Warren
Oct 17, 20248 min read
All It Takes To Make Me Happy!
Oct. 17 (Thursday. I have to write out the day of the week because that is my ONLY frame of reference. That and my phone alarm rang a few...
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Pru Warren
Oct 16, 20248 min read
Black Magic Island
Oct. 16 (Wednesday) Here’s the local buzz: If you want to curse someone, you need one of the wizards from the Vanuatu black magic island...
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Pru Warren
Oct 15, 20246 min read
From Bla to Wow (to ouch!)
Oct. 15 (Tuesday) I was lured out under false pretenses… The promised monsoon was NOT ACCEPTABLE. At least in Cabin 512 on the...
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Pru Warren
Oct 14, 20245 min read
Check Out That Color!
Oct. 14 Oooh—captain just said the magic word on the shipwide PA: MONSOON! We’re not supposed to use any of the outside passageways or...
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Pru Warren
Oct 12, 20247 min read
Darling, It's Better Down Where It's Wetter. Take It From Me.
Oct. 13 I don’t seem to be able to turn it off—the desire to compare. To understand something by saying to myself, ah. THIS thing is like...
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Pru Warren
Oct 12, 20245 min read
The Colonizer Legacy
Oct. 12 (Saturday) So, lemme ask you: If a large tour bus pulled up to your house and disgorged fifty or so people who wanted to smile...
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Pru Warren
Oct 11, 20245 min read
I Swear I Wasn't Coming On To The Man!
Oct. 11 I swear—I wasn’t coming on to the man! The day has been action-packed, but the best part was about three hours spent drifting...
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Pru Warren
Oct 10, 20246 min read
Rocked in the Deep
Oct. 11 (a Friday, as it happens) It’s a given in my life that I will sleep soundly for four hours, wake inexplicably for two or three...
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