A view into the life of Jay, Christy, Luke and Ryan as we travel around the world! The original Orriscope was an editorial written by Jay's grandfather when he owned and edited the Grand Forks Gazette in British Columbia.
As always, China throws a long shadow. It was obvious we were approaching Shanghai by the change in the color of the ocean water. As Shanghai is near the terminal end of the Yangtze River, it wasn’t a surprise to see the water taking on a brownish tinge. It was more disconcerting to see the odd…
The first foreign port of our Semester at Sea voyage is behind us. Nineteen days after our departure from Encinitas, Mexico we arrived in Kobe, Japan. With a day in Hawaii and a day that didn’t exist due to the vagaries of crossing the International Date Line, we had 17 days at sea and will write about that nautical…
And we’re off. On January 3rd we said our goodbyes to our furry girls and made our way to the Denver airport. We had a carload of luggage, passports, tickets to San Diego and a Semester at Sea voyage ahead of us. We spent a couple of days in San Diego doing final prep and…