{"id":367,"date":"2012-08-11T18:13:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T01:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=367"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:22:08","slug":"august-11-cruise-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/11\/august-11-cruise-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"August 11: Alaskan Cruise Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got up in our Vancouver hotel and after breakfast headed for the cruise terminal.\u00a0 Because my Prius could not handle four people and all our luggage, we also got a taxi.\u00a0 I followed the taxi through downtown Vancouver, weaving in and out of traffic.\u00a0 We were there in no time.<\/p>\n

We checked in for our cruise.\u00a0 Our cabins were near the bow; the dining\u00a0room near the stern.\u00a0 For three meals a day, we had to walk one mile per day.\u00a0 No problem for us, but it was for my dad, so we had to get a wheelchair to move him around the ship.<\/p>\n

We departed under sunny skies at 5 PM.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Zuiderdam Dock at Canada Place in Vancouver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Stateroom<\/a>
Our Stateroom on the Zuiderdam, Home for Seven Days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Arjan<\/a>
Arjan and Stepmom Chris: Adjacent Staterooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jan<\/a>
Jan Post and Christine Brunak Participate in the Mandatory Evacuation Drill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Canada<\/a>
The Canada Place Dock and Vancouver Skyline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Zuiderdam<\/a>
Zuiderdam Passengers Watch the Vancouver Skyline Disappear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cruise<\/a>
MS Zuiderdam Leaving Vancouver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[Photographs © 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got up in our Vancouver hotel and after breakfast headed for the cruise terminal.\u00a0 Because my Prius could not handle four people and all our luggage, we also got a taxi.\u00a0 I followed the taxi through downtown Vancouver, weaving in and out of traffic.\u00a0 We were there in no time. We checked in for our … Continue reading “August 11: Alaskan Cruise Departure”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}