"When you graduate from high school, we'll take you anywhere you want to go". That's what we told our grandkids, and the first one to qualify said "Tahiti".

So that's where we went in July 2005, with Tim and his mom Betsy on a two week cruise of French Polynesia. We were in the South Pacific, about halfway between South America and Australia.

We sailed on the 'Paul Gauguin' , a small ship that we agree is the best we've ever been on. We'd traveled around the Tahitian islands on this 320 ... (more)