Getting Ready for our World Cruise!

This is our first post in preparation for our upcoming world cruise on the Pacific Princess! We leave on January 13th from Fort Lauderdale and will be curcumnavigating the globe. Well kinda. We head west and finish the cruise in Venice, Italy. So that will complete the circuit of the world for us which started in November, when we will be taking Celebrity Solstice from Venice west to Barcelona, then on to Fort Lauderdale. So around the world in about 160 days (more or less). Slower than Phileas Fogg, yet hopefully just as memorable!

This is a trip of a lifetime for me and Krissie.  We have talked to others who have done world cruises in the past (from our other cruise adventures as well as the online forum in prep for this cruise--some people are going on their second and third world cruises, believe it or not) and they said that this cruise will be a life changing experience and will alter our world view.  We are hoping to find as much good and adventure out there as we can find and share it with you via this blog.  Here is where we will be visiting:

Itinerary for our trip
Click map for full size view

Following is the video about the cruise from Princess Cruises (click play to watch and click full screen bottom right for best viewing):

I think this is Princess' "generic" video for all world cruises (if there is such a thing), since there are several locations in the video where we will not be going (Great Wall, Taj Majal, Machu Pichu, etc.), although maybe some people will be visiting there on overland excurisions (where you get off at one port, visit an inland location like Taj Majal, then rejoin at the next port--we're not doing any of these overland excursions).  Not sure about a lot of the other exotic looking places, but the map above shows the ports where we will be stopping.