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:
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
250204 A Fist Full of Sea Days
250207 Port Sudafed, Salaverry, Peru
250208 Sea Days in the Humboldt Current.
250209 Miraflores’ Sculpted Cliffs, Lima, Peru
250209 Magic Waters, Lima, Peru
250211 X of Y, Paracas Peru
250216 Carnival and Fish Politics, San Antonio, Chile
250217 Wine!, Casablanca Valley, Chile
250217 Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Casablanca Valley Chile
250210 Robinson Crusoe Redux, Isla Robinson Crusoe, Chile
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)
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.
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
2503227 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
250329 A River Day (Not a Sea Day.)


beautiful photos! have a good cruise
Just discovered your blog. Excellent job. Just caught up on the P2P cruise.