Less than a month

In 27 days we leave. We fly to London on 12 May arriving on the 13th. We are in London for about 24 hours before we find our way to Victoria Station to board a bus transfer to Southampton in order to board the Queen Mary 2.

I decided I would blog about this trip and upload pictures as I go. And then I made the further decision to start blogging before the trip began...like now. So here I am.

Allegedly, if you click the title of this blog ("Less than a month") it will take you to Cunard's website about our trip. (If that doesn't work for some reason, copy and paste this address: http://is.gd/sBC2) I've also put a map of our itinerary here.

I've never been on a cruise before. I have, however, done a crossing on the Queen Mary 2 in the first year she sailed, 2005 when Marilyn & I sailed across the Atlantic for 6 days. It was much more fun than I expected, frankly. I had a little bit of anxiety prior to that voyage about being on a ship that long. (No anxiety really about sinking or anything like that--since I can't really swim, if we sank, I was a goner. Why worry?) But the QM2 is big enough and entertaining enough just by herself to have made that sailing seemingly end very quickly.

This time Allen is coming along too. For that I am very happy. I don't mind traveling with just Marilyn and enjoy her company. But I do miss Allen on those occasions. (After the crossing in 2005, he did meet us in London where we stayed for a week.)

So I guess in this lead-up time, I'm thinking I'll write about trip preparations, some stuff about myself and the other cast of characters, and other issues as they come up related to the trip. There probably won't be many pix in this part but once we're traveling, I hope to blog and upload.

Thanks for reading. Ciao.