I have never written a blog post on a boat before, but here we are on the Eurodam, a Holland American boat with about 1000 staterooms, 2000 passengers and 1000 members of the crew. We left Seattle promptly at 2:30 on Saturday afternoon and our first stop will be Juneau on Monday at noon. It will be 22 strait hours at sea.

This is the Eurodam and, as I hope seems obvious, I did not take this picture.

But I did take others, such as the one I posted earlier on Facebook as we left Seattle.

I also took this one from the boat as we started our journey. It’s Mt. Ranier, as those of you who have visited Seattle know.

Leaving Seattle, we go north and then turn west with the Olympic peninsula on our left and Vancouver Island to the right. As we sail through the night, we will be parallel to that island all night.

We haven’t seen many others on the water. I have only seen a few small sailboats like this one.

And I did get out on our balcony to catch the sunset.

It was a beautiful day today. Our other days at sea look like we will be cloudy and rainy.

But not yet. This morning looks okay.

Or does it? Looked better in real life than in the photo.

We are on board, moving at 25 mph or so all day and tonight and get into Juneau noon tomorrow.

I think being on this boat is like living in an isolated retirement community. You have a small, but comfortable, apartment. When you go out, you are surrounded by people you don’t know and see no reason to know. You don’t drive, so you can’t leave even if you want to. They give you food when you are hungry. The staff is nice. And if you get bored? There is always bingo.

So far, so good.