This is our our 33rd-day of our adventure. We leave Vancouver in a few hours and will be back in Honolulu tonight. Some thoughts about this very satisfying journey. My overriding concern was sleep. Late last year during our two-month itinerary going east on the Norwegian Encore from Seattle to Southampton, followed by a Christmas River Cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest, I began to have difficulty sleeping during the final three weeks. My worry was that this trip would result in the same because the Oceania cruise was to the east, where we had to make 8 one-hour time changes, shortening the day again. Well, my body remembered that ordeal, did not want a repeat, and kept me sleepy almost all the time. Compared to not sleeping at all, this was fabulous. Episode 22 of the Kilauea eruption sequence in Halemaumau Crater resulted in 1000-foot fountains of lava. However, that stopped after 10 hours, which is good, for a continuous eruption can bring volc...

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