Emily Ellet

We’re travelling up to dry dock currently, enduring some very choppy waters off the California coast as we make our way towards British Columbia, Canada.  Fortunately, that means I don’t want to leave my room, and thus I can blog!  #thingstobegratefulfor I can now say I’ve experienced all four Hawaiian islands – the Big Island, Oahu, Kauai, and Maui.  And I had quite different adventures in each… Our first stop on these cruises is always Hilo, the biggest city on the Big Isla

After two rather rainy days at sea, I was delighted to get off the ship yesterday and to be greeted by this: We had a fantastic driver/tour guide named Carl, who had a wry sense of humor and an astonishing knowledge of Victoria’s history, politics, and real estate prices (the latter being particularly interesting to me).  We saw ritzy Oak Bay, the super fancy Uplands estates, the hotel and promenade that Rudyard Kipling frequented, and the University of Victoria, to name a fe