Caribbean Cruise Travel Journal

We flew into Orlando the Wednesday before the cruise, to spend a few days with my husband Don's cousins. We picked up our rental Friday afternoon for our drive down to Ft. Lauderdale, and left Summerville (near the Villages) at 6;30 a.m.

I'd spent many hours and sleepless nights worrying about the transfer from the airport (where I had to return the rental) to Port Everglades. I knew it was only a ten-minute taxi ride, but we had lots of luggage, and I worried about schlepping it all from the rental building to the terminals where taxi pick-up is. Read more