At Sea enroute Guatamala

 Monday, January27

We've traveled  northwest far enough now where we had to set our clocks back one hour this morning at 2AM.  We are back in the Central Time Zone and directly west of Costa Rica as I look at our Navigation Map.  The seas are a little rough with swells and white caps abundant.  That may account for the fact the we are only gong 14 knots as opposed to our normal 19 knots.

Sue had a rough night coughing.  She is considering going to the ship's doctor for some cough medicine.  She seems to be better now that she is upright.

As we progress northwest we are traversing the Middle America Trench, the 18th deepest trench in the world.  Currently, we are at a point that is 16,000 feet deep, yesterday it was reported at 11,000. 

It's deepest point is 21,880 feet.  The deepest trench in the world is the Mariana Trench located in the western Pacific just south of Japan, which is 35,843 feet at its deepest point.  The captain reports this and other facts each day at sea at precisely 12 noon.

Speaking of the captain, we received an engraved invitation to have cocktails with her.  I assume this invitation goes out to all world cruisers aboard at one time or another. 

Our invitation from the captain

 I can't imagine her meeting with all 3,000 of us.  About half the people I talk to are getting off at San Francisco.  This world cruise is set up in segments and you can only get on or off at predesignated ports.  They are Southampton, New York, San Francisco, Auckland, Hong Kong or Durban.  One person told me that even though we are loosing a lot of people in S.F., we will have a full ship when we leave.

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Tomorrow, we arrive at Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala.  We signed up for a six hour tour to the Pacaya Volcano.  There is quite a bit of walking involved.  I hope Sue's head cold is better by then.