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Things were definitely changing aboard the Odyssey. We had a lot of itinerary changes for unexpected reasons during the last couple of months. But also some other things were becoming obvious. We heard and read about the activities in the Middle East and specifically the issues in the Gulf of Hormuz. The price of our fuel had gone up unbelievably and it was affecting our travel/sailing plans. We were also told that the ship was having some other financial issues not bas

During my working life at Texas Instruments and then Accenture, I was thrilled to have been able to visit Hong Kong several times. I have so many fond memories of my TI hosts taking me shopping in Stanley Market, even had dinner in the ONLY Mexican food restaurant in the 1990's (enchiladas & Dos XX beer), seeing the floating city of Hong Hong which is now long gone, and riding the cable car to the top of Victoria Peak. But the only thing I never got to do, and the one thing