Steve and Cathy's Blog

Our first full day and we are at sea all day. We awaken having been traveling all night through the Old Bahama Channel and find ourselves twelve miles off the Communist Paradise known as Cuba. As we won’t reach our first port of call, Puerta Plata Dominican Republic, until tomorrow, it’s the perfect time to catch up on the blog and to get acquainted with MS Riviera. Turns out that Steve will do the former while

Today we board at 1:30pm. We are both feeling more confident by the hour. For Cathy, who by nature has, for weeks, been overthinking every conceivable detail and what could possibly go awry, this is a relief. She is calm. Steve, on the other hand, who has tenaciously held on to the philosophy that “it will be what it will be,” can no longer keep his anxiety under wraps.  7:00am: The photo you see above is

WARNING: This post might well not be worth reading. We are writing it to recount certain mundane parts of our journey significantly affected by the pandemic and what we did to overcome its impacts. Cathy and Steve start out on the first cruise opportunity since the dreaded COVID-19 upended travel plans for the planet almost two years ago. Normally, we wouldn’t write a post about such a routine part of our journey, but COVID-19 caused us