We have celebrated our Big O Birthdays in '08 by Circling South America aboard RSSC's Mariner!!!

A few notes about this blog. It was originally posted in realtime on AOL. When AOL shut down its Journals feature on Oct. 31, 2008, we had to recreate this blog here. So, things may need a little explaining. This trip journal is displayed from most recent entry first to oldest entry last. So, if you want to read it in chronological order, you will need to click to the first entry shown in the archive to the right. Once you do that it will display only one entry at a time, with Newer Posts links on the left, and Older Posts links on the right, at the bottom of each entry to page forward or back through the journal.

There are links for photos on most of the entries. On most of the entries, there will be an identical link to the photos at the beginning and the end of each entry, this way you can decide when you want to view photos without scrolling all the way through the text again. Note that when the slideshow is finished that clicking your browser's back arrow should return you to the blog entry text.

Enjoy!