Where are we today? Nashville!
We leave in three weeks and three days! We are getting our first taste of adventure in that we are hanging loose with our itinerary. As it stands now, we are scheduled to cruise all the way down the Amazon to Manaus and back again. Of course, there is a massive drought going on there, and the river is at its lowest point in over 100 years. A ship our cruise vessel's size and make had to turn back from its leg in the Amazon in December. The rainy season is coming soon, but likely won't raise the water level much before we get there. If we can't do the Amazon, we will go somewhere else, but I feel for the people who make their livelihoods from the river and the rain forests. Also due to low water levels, the Panama Canal authorities are limiting the number of ships that can be on the canal at one time. So, the line to enter and pass through the locks is longer than normal. The other sketchy stretch includes ports in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, around Yemen , the Gulf