Before I get to the travel logs, I thought I would share a little bit about how our life on the Villa Vie Odyssey has been going. In a couple words - pretty good. Since we arrived in Bali, Indonesia, we haven't had as many "sea days", where we slowly head to the next port. The new routine has been spending 2 to 4 days at a port, travel for a day or two then spend another 2 to 4 days at the next po...
With the events taking place in the world, fuel prices have sky-rocketed and are becoming scarce. At least in Asia and Australia, fuel is getting hard to find. Australia imposed a restriction on providing fuel to "foreign" vessels. They're giving priority to domestic ships, which caused the Odyssey to re-evaluate our travel plans. Since fuel wasn't going to be available in Darwin, we did...
In 2004, when we started travelling fulltime in a motorhome, I wrote an article about "slowing down" and enjoying life. Now that we're cruising fulltime, this philosophy is being applied every day to the maximum. Not only as a philosophy, but also literally! The ship usually cruises at less than 10 knots. This is less than 12mph. I look out over the ocean and can spen...
The sailing to New Zealand from Australia went smoothly. However, we quickly got our indoctrination into this groundbreaking method of cruising. The Villa Vie Odyssey is a "proof of concept" for the idea of living fulltime on a cruise ship, sailing around the world. The Odyssey has only been sailing as a "residential" ship for 15 months. This is her first trip around the world and new lessons...
It was a long flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia. We time traveled to the future, as we left late at night on Feb. 17th, flew for 15 hours, but arrived the morning of Feb. 19th! Since we arrived in the morning, we were concerned about what to do with our 6 cases of luggage! We didn't think the hotel would let us check-in this early, so we hoped they had a place to store ou...
