Full Itinerary Sep 17 → Oct 27 Seattle → Miami

Every day of the voyage, in order

This is the whole trip, day by day. Every port day and every sea day gets its own post with photos and journal notes, sea days count too, because that's where the card games, whale sightings and sunset photos live. Click any day to read its edition.

41days, each with its own post

5phases of the route

2oceans, Pacific and Atlantic

1canal between them

A large white cruise ship pulling away from the Seattle waterfront pier at golden hour, the Space Needle and downtown skyline behind it, streamers of low sun on calm harbor water — Day 1, Sep 17, pulling away from Seattle. Forty nights and roughly the length of two continents to go.

Phase One: Alaska

Days 1-9. North out of Seattle into the Inside Passage, then back down to Victoria. Cold air, big mountains, and the first sea days of the trip.

Day	Date	Port / At Sea	Edition
1	Sep 17	Seattle, WA, departure	Read Day 1
2	Sep 18	At sea, Inside Passage	Read Day 2
3	Sep 19	Ketchikan, AK	Read Day 3
4	Sep 20	Juneau, AK	Read Day 4
5	Sep 21	Skagway, AK	Read Day 5
6	Sep 22	Glacier viewing from the ship	Read Day 6
7	Sep 23	Sitka, AK	Read Day 7
8	Sep 24	At sea, heading south	Read Day 8
9	Sep 25	Victoria, BC	Read Day 9

A blue-white tidewater glacier meeting dark green water in an Alaskan fjord, small chunks of floating ice in the foreground under bright overcast light — Glacier day: the ship holds position while everyone crowds the rail.

Colorful wooden stilt houses along a creek boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska, seaplanes moored nearby and misty forested hills rising behind the town — Ketchikan's boardwalk, first port of the trip.

Phase Two: Pacific Coast

Days 10-19. The long run down the West Coast, Oregon, California, then Mexico. The jackets go back in the suitcase somewhere around Monterey.

Day	Date	Port / At Sea	Edition
10	Sep 26	At sea, Pacific Northwest coast	Read Day 10
11	Sep 27	Astoria, OR	Read Day 11
12	Sep 28	At sea, off northern California	Read Day 12
13	Sep 29	San Francisco, CA	Read Day 13
14	Sep 30	Monterey, CA	Read Day 14
15	Oct 1	At sea, central coast	Read Day 15
16	Oct 2	Los Angeles, CA	Read Day 16
17	Oct 3	San Diego, CA	Read Day 17
18	Oct 4	At sea, down Baja	Read Day 18
19	Oct 5	Cabo San Lucas, Mexico	Read Day 19

View from a cruise ship deck sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge at sunrise, the bridge's orange towers overhead and fog burning off the headlands — Sailing under the Golden Gate, worth the early alarm.

The granite sea arch at Cabo San Lucas rising from turquoise water, small tender boats circling it under a hard blue midday sky — The arch at Cabo, last stop before the turn south.

Phase Three: Panama Canal

Days 20-29. Down the Central American coast and through the locks, the day the whole trip is built around. Day 28 is the full canal transit, Pacific to Atlantic in daylight.

Day	Date	Port / At Sea	Edition
20	Oct 6	At sea, Mexican Riviera	Read Day 20
21	Oct 7	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Read Day 21
22	Oct 8	At sea, southbound	Read Day 22
23	Oct 9	At sea, off Central America	Read Day 23
24	Oct 10	Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala	Read Day 24
25	Oct 11	At sea, toward Costa Rica	Read Day 25
26	Oct 12	Puntarenas, Costa Rica	Read Day 26
27	Oct 13	At sea, approach to Panama	Read Day 27
28	Oct 14	Panama Canal, full transit	Read Day 28
29	Oct 15	Colón, Panama	Read Day 29

A cruise ship rising inside the concrete chamber of a Panama Canal lock, mules on rails guiding lines from both walls, dense green jungle beyond under humid tropical light — Inside the locks on Day 28, the ship climbs, crosses the lake, and comes down the other side into a different ocean.

Phase Four: Caribbean

Days 30-37. Out of the canal and into warm water: Colombia, the ABC islands, then Jamaica. Expect a lot of beach photos in these editions.

Day	Date	Port / At Sea	Edition
30	Oct 16	At sea, Caribbean crossing	Read Day 30
31	Oct 17	Cartagena, Colombia	Read Day 31
32	Oct 18	At sea, toward the ABC islands	Read Day 32
33	Oct 19	Oranjestad, Aruba	Read Day 33
34	Oct 20	Willemstad, Curaçao	Read Day 34
35	Oct 21	At sea, westbound	Read Day 35
36	Oct 22	At sea, westbound	Read Day 36
37	Oct 23	Ocho Rios, Jamaica	Read Day 37

Bright yellow and coral colonial buildings with wooden balconies and bougainvillea in the old walled city of Cartagena, sharp afternoon shadows on cobblestones — Cartagena's walled old town.

The pastel-painted Dutch waterfront row of Willemstad, Curaçao seen across a channel of clear turquoise water on a cloudless day — Willemstad's waterfront, straight off a postcard.

Phase Five: Atlantic

Days 38-41. Cayman, then two last sea days to pack, print photos and argue about the best day of the trip, and finally Miami on the morning of Oct 27.

Day	Date	Port / At Sea	Edition
38	Oct 24	George Town, Grand Cayman	Read Day 38
39	Oct 25	At sea, northbound	Read Day 39
40	Oct 26	At sea, final full day aboard	Read Day 40
41	Oct 27	Miami, FL, disembarkation	Read Day 41

An empty teak cruise ship deck at dawn on the open Atlantic, deck chairs in a neat row and a wide flat horizon glowing pale orange — The last sea days: quiet decks, long horizons.

The Miami skyline and cruise terminal seen from the water in early morning light, pastel high-rises and palm-lined causeway under a warm pink sky — Miami on the morning of Day 41, the end of the line.

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