So how was our Seabourn Odyssey 53-day cruise?  Depends on who you ask.  My companion loved the journey, and made a hold for a future trip with Seabourn.  I thought it was mostly fine, but a bit too long.  The fantasy baseball season began a month ago and my three teams started poorly.  However, two are now in first place and the third in second, so can't really complain.   The following are mostly my views. A huge surprise is my weight.   After we returned to Honolulu, went shopping at Marukai to purchase some o-toro sashimi for the 15 Craigside-supplied Pork Tofu for dinner and other items to enhance in-house meals, I added a large bento of curry rice/garlic chicken, with a goodly amount of fat-inducing macaroni-mayonnaise salad.   I thought this would be my last splurge before re-going on a diet.  I weighed 152-155 pounds the week I left Honolulu for Sydney nearly two months ago.  After that lunch with beer, I weighed myself, and had to repeat it three times.  For all that I ate

Today represents two weeks on the Seabourn Odyssey.   The itinerary was, well, kind of junk.  For those 13 days, a Sydney to Hobart to Perth to Adelaide to Melbourne to Sydney trip would have been far better. The management seems somewhat disorganized.  Maybe it's the "just out of pandemic process" matter that is causing most of this.  Whatever, let me tell you one incident that should have been better managed. Yesterday morning we got this sudden letter indicating that all passengers needed to bring their passport and guest pass to meet with immigration officials off the ship. I called and was told to go now, which was around 10AM.  We had not yet had breakfast, but went as told. There is this transition zone between the ship and customs.  Left the ship, but at the entrance to Australia, a guard said that we also needed a transit card.  Went back to the ship, and they had a pile of cards in no particular order.  Somehow they found our cards, which meant they had to go th