November 7, 2026

Saturday – Day 13

A sea day, transversing the Bermuda Triangle.

The Bermuda Triangle, or the Devil’s Triangle, is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean that has been the focus of many urban legends all of which suggest aircraft, ships, and people have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The triangle is lossless defined as a triangle oddly enough with the three corners being Miami, C=Flordia, Bermuda and Puerto Rico.

This triangle covers roughly 500,000 square miles of open ocean. It is officially recognized on world maps. It became famous for unverified and sensationalized stories of missing ships and aircraft. Most notable Flight 19 (1945) and the USS Cyclops (1918) which vanished without a trace. However, realistically it is one of the busiest shipping and flight corridors in the world. Some did a study and determined that missing ships, aircraft or accidents happen no more frequently here than any other major ocean region.

The region is prone to violent tropical storms, hurricanes, and the swift Guld Stream, any of which can rapidly erase wreckage and make search-and-rescuer extremely difficult. Sudden weather shifts, treacherous shallow reefs around the Caribbean, rare methane gas releases from the sea floor, and navigation compass variations when true north and magnetic north align. We are hopping for calm seas and weather, no unexplained mechanical failure or human errors during our passage.

As of mid-day the weather is calm and beautiful, and the sea very pleasant. This morning we went up to La Veranda for breakfast. We played some cards, had lunch and returned to our suite for rest. I worked on my blog and got all caught up. Mary sat on the veranda and got some sun. Then we played more cards.

We got dressed for dinner and headed down to Compass Rose. The one thing about being gluten free is that you have to order you meals in the morning before 10:00. Now, that shouldn’t be a problem, but how much will you want to eat and when is a little bit of a problem. Decided on dinner at breakfast time, is proving to be a little difficult.

This seems to be solved by just having a light lunch, which you can order in advance, but most days we just have a salad for lunch. This leaves room for dinner. Tonight I preordered a salad with melon and a mustard dressing as my first course, and chicken parmesan served on angle hair pasta as my main course.

The salad was actually very good. That had added julienned cucumber on top of it. I am not a fan of cucumber, so I just pushed that aside. The salad was very good otherwise. The chicken was dry and tasteless. Gluten free pasta has come a long way. It was penne pasta rather than angle hair pasta. Not bad, but even with salt and pepper bland.

We both had chocolate ice cream for dessert. Just one scoop. Mary had them put a little bit, emphasis on little bit, of chocolate sauce on hers. Then I was off to have my evening cigar.

It has been another relaxing day at sea. We gain another hour tomorrow, which puts us on east coast time. We will be in Miami on Monday. Taylor is flying in to see us; more importantly bring me my cigar supply. We have applied to have him come on board and see our merger accommodations. We move from a concierge suite to a penthouse suite, actually our world cruise suite #904, in the morning. We’ll have to check with the registration desk and see if it was approved.

We’ll go and have breakfast with him. We have to vacate our suite at 08:00. Our butler and room steward will move our luggage to the new suite while we are ashore. We hav to go through US Immigration on Monday. We are hoping they have updated the manifest to our US passports, or it is going to take a little longer.

Well, good night. An extra hour of sleep tonight, although we know it won’t work for me.  

Buonanotte e Caio

Enrico e Maria