This is the landing page for the 2025 Pole to Pole (P2P) cruise on Holland America’s MV Volendam. It is a 133 day Grand Voyage. Let’s see how the itinerary will change in the next four months. The map is already incorrect. We have replaced Bar Harbor Maine with Portland Maine.

It is a a small contingent onboard. Only 747 out of a capacity of 1,400. But the “Welcome Home” banner was unfurled.

List of Posts:

250125 Chaos

260126 St. Anthony,– Again?

250127 Peanut

250128 Hound of the Lord, Santo Domingo

250130 Goodbye Columbus, Santa Marta

250130 A Lump of Coal, Santa Marta

240201 Saturday in the Park, Puerto Limon

250203 Panama Post

250204 A Fist Full of Sea Days

250204 Wooden Botes in Manta

250205 Manta Sidebar

250207 Finally Trujillo

250207 Port Sudafed, Salaverry, Peru

250208 Sea Days in the Humboldt Current.

250209 Miraflores’ Sculpted Cliffs, Lima, Peru

250209 Magic Waters, Lima, Peru

250210 Lima Streets

250211 X of Y, Paracas Peru

250214 Valentines on Volendam

250215 An Accidental Sea Day

250216 Carnival and Fish Politics, San Antonio, Chile

250217 Wine!, Casablanca Valley, Chile

250217 Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Casablanca Valley Chile

250218 Thank You St. Anthony

250210 Robinson Crusoe Redux, Isla Robinson Crusoe, Chile

250220 Repeat Sea Day

250221 Spinning Wheels, Chile’s Lake Country (Puerto Montt)

250222 Chiole’s Wooden Churches

250222 Shingles and Stilts, A Chiloe Sidebar

250223 I Climb the Empire State Building, Simson River Reserve, Patagonia.

250224 “Friends Don’t Let Friends…” Salmon Farming in Chile

250225 Glaciers and Fjords, Southern Patagonia.

250226 The Last Days of Freedom… (…Before School Starts.) Punta Arenas, Chile.

250227 Glacier Alley (Chile to Argentina.)

250227 Fin del Mundo (Ushuaia, Argentina)

250202 Antarctica, Day One.

250303 Critters

250303 The Type of Day You Live For

250303 If I Had More Time I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter

250305 Black and White Antarctic

250306 Recapture. (Thoughts on traveling to the Antarctic.)

250307 Looking for the Vicar of Bray in the Falklands, Redux

250309 Latin Celtic Fusion, Gaiman, Argentina.

250309 Another Sunday in the Park, Puerto Madryn

250312 Comfortable, Montevideo

250312 Advertising, Art and the Church, Montevideo Photo Gallery

250313 No Time to Hop Off, Bueno Aires

250313 A Little Bit the Head of Maradona… Buenos Aires

250313 A Pacific Northwest Totem Pole in the Argentine North East

250314 A Walk through Buenos Aires

250315 Punta del Este, The Southernmost Point in Uruguay.

250318 Rio Sail In.

250318 Two Churches in Rio

250318 Night, Rio and Music

250319 Tramming in Rio

250320 The Buddha and Bridget Bardot, Armação dos Búzios

250222 A Dance, A Game, or a Martial Art? Salvador Bahia

250222 Lower Town, Salvador Bahia

250324 A 21st Century Tardis. Recife

250326 Fortaleza

2503227 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

250329 A River Day (Not a Sea Day.)

250331 Too Thick to Navigate, Too Thin to Plow. Boca de Valeria.

250401 Halfway, Manaus

250403 Red and Blue, Boi Bomba Redux, Parintines, Brazil

250404 A Gallery of Riverboats

250404 Meeting of the Waters (Amazon)

250404 Gil Serique Redux. Alter do Chão

250405 Crossing the Line

250407 Isles of Salvation, Devil’s Island

250411 Brazilian Memories. (Sea Days)

250412 Africa Starters’ Kit, Cabo Verde

250312 I Could Live Here.

250413 A Day Too Early…A Day Too Late, Cabo Verde

250413 Praia Gallery

250415 Welcome to the Gambia

250415 Here There Be Dragons, The Gambia

250415 WOW, the Gambian Art Villages

250415 Kubuneh Village Life, The Gambia

250416 Sticker People, Dakar

250416 Two Dakar Sidebars

250416 Serving the Same God. Dakar