CROSSING THE PACIFIC OCEAN, TAKE TWO
Scott and I recently returned (3/6/24) from a sea voyage across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney, with ports in Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, and New Zealand along the way. This was my second Pacific crossing but Scott’s first. As readers may recall, my first voyage across the Pacific took place in January and February of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was just beginning. (In an unwelcome serendipity, I contracted covid on this voyage and was confined to our stateroom for four days. It is hard to fathom that we have been impacted by this virus for four years with no sign of its ending.) We had planned a cruise from Seward, Alaska to Tokyo in 2022 when we thought the pandemic had ended, but it was cancelled when a second wave closed Japan to cruise ships. The trip we were able to take was on Cunard’s Queen Victoria . It was a part of that ship’s 2024 World Cruise: a 107-day voyage that began in Southampton, England, crossed the ...