The title above describes the reality of travel.  We're abut 5500 miles away from Hawaii, with maybe something serious about to happen there, and the location of the Azamara Journey off Greenland means that WiFi is really, really slow.  One video can take up to 24 hours to download.  Thus, I will for the next few days show that a video is there, but I probably won't be able to link it to You Tube until the ship arrives in Montreal.  Then, I can try to reload ten videos each day.  That is the limit. The biggest news of the day, for me, is the coming of Lala, now a tropical storm, but projected to increase to hurricane strength, and make landfall over the Big Island of Hawaii tomorrow. I know two hurricanes that badly damaged the island of Kauai, but don't think a hurricane has ever in recorded history made landfall over the other islands.  So I asked Google AI if the Big Island of Hawaii has ever been struck by a hurricane: That is correct. In modern recorde...

For the past 24 hours we've been passing by icebergs and glaciers.  If you love snowy mountains, bitter cold and the splendor of winter in May, you'd want to be on the Oceania Riviera cruising by the coastline of Alaska. To recap, woke up after sleeping for 13 hours to see these scenes from our veranda. We had never before seen people on the deck below us, but I guess for the Hubbard Glacial watch, the doors to this front portion of the ship was opened.  Went down for an Italian lunch plus beef, with Peroni Beer and a Chianti. Returned to our room for the rest of the glacial show.....for now. A small iceberg. What do you know about  glaciers  and icebergs.  I'll start with the former. A glacier is a persistent body of ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.  A typical speed is around 3 feet per day, although the Greenland Jacobshavn Isbtae moves as fast as 100 feet/day.  Surges can be as fast as 300 feet/day.    Glaciers ...