I was born on 6September1940.  Am now on the Silversea Silver Whisper, heading towards three Pacific Ocean hurricanes.  Met the captain of this ship last night, Julien Albiel to my right (your left) and hotel director Valentin Trif. He was pleased to hear that we both thought the Silver Whisper was the best cruise ship we have ever been on, all things considered.  Even better that the Ritz-Carlton Luminara.  Here I am with Captain Tom Roth of that luxury yacht.   Read the story of how he personally helped me on Day One of our cruise from Singapore less than a year ago So back to the Silver Whisper, spent some time talking to Captain Albiei, mostly about those three hurricanes.  Twelve hours later, or this morning, the situation has further improved regarding our safety.   Hurricane Karina is now a tropical storm at 60 MPH and continuing to mover westward, sufficiently north of the Hawaiian Islands. Will become a post-tropical gale as she head...

Well the most important thing to report has to do with that typhoon that formed the day we originally departed Yokohama.  According to  Wikipedia : Typhoon Koto , known in the Philippines as   Typhoon Verbena , was a fairly strong and erratic  tropical cyclone  that impacted much of the  Visayas  and portions of  Luzon and  Mindanao  in the  Philippines . The twenty-seventh  named storm  and fourteenth  typhoon  of the  annual typhoon season , Koto developed off the eastern coast of Mindanao on November 23, then tracked westward across the country, making seven landfalls before emerging over the South China Sea, where it strengthened into a typhoon. However, the system gradually weakened and became virtually stationary off the coast of Vietnam before dissipating altogether. Let me begin with Day 9 on the Diamond Princess.  Did not do much except eat and sleep.  Lunch came in two parts. ...