^{13 Night Cruise aboard the Celebrity Equinox} 

This cruise has one of those itineraries that incorporated so many destinations from our buck list that it was hard to believe it was packaged into one 15 night trip.  It was one of those dream cruises that we always said would be a great one to take if we had the time and monies to do so but didn’t really believe we would do it, not at least this early in our life.  Wow, it covered the romantic, the classic, the historic, and the adventurous elements of exploration.  The ancient world was our agenda, old world civilizations were our ports of call, and the biblical holy land our spiritual journeying.

Our trip started in Tallahassee, Florida on a leisurely late morning flight.  The flight was late arriving, therefore late leaving causing us to panic run in Atlanta, Georgia to catch our connecting flight to Chicago, Ill.  We did catch the flight but was sure our baggage did not.  After a half layover in Chicago, we boarded our flight, found our seats, and settled into our long flight over the pond.  We awoke after a few hours of light sleep to the sun shining through the airplane windows and a view of a whole new beautiful coastline and uncharted territory.   

               Itinerary           

Friday Aug 28 - Depart Tallahassee, Florida                                                                                                                     

Saturday Aug 29 - Arrived Rome Italy, check into hotel and explored Rome                  

             Sunday Aug30 - Toured Rome                                                                                                    

Monday Aug 31 - Toured Vatican City, Embarked from Civitavecchia, Italy                  

Tuesday Sept 1 - Naples / Capri, Italy                                                                        

Wednesday Sept 2 - Day at Sea                                                                                  

Thursday Sept 3 - Athens, Greece                                                                               

Friday Sept 4 - Rhodes, Greece                                                                                   

Saturday Sept 5 - Ephesus, Turkey                                                                              

Sunday Sept 6 - Day at Sea                                                                                         

Monday Sept 7 - Haifa, Israel                                                                                                           

Tuesday Sept 8 - Jerusalem, Israel                                                                                                   

Wednesday Sept 9 - Alexandria, Egypt                                                                                           

Thursday Sept 10 - Cairo, Egypt                                                                                 

Friday Sept 11 - Day at Sea

Saturday Sept 12 - Day at Sea

Sunday Sept 13 - Disembark Civitavecchia, Italy, tour Rome.                                        

Within twenty minutes we were on the ground in Italy.  We walked down the outside stairs to bright warm weather, boarded a shuttle bus, and was whisk off to find our luggage.  To our surprise and joy our bags were there.   Upon exiting the airport we found our hired shuttle / limo driver with a little sign that had our name spelled all wrong and a driver with no understanding of English. 

Now take the links below and follow our journeys.  You can sequence through the trip by “mashing” the NEXT button.  Enjoy!!