There are 35 ships setting forth on various cruise-type adventures today…

• the longest cruise starting today is a 29-day marathon on Norwegian Jewel that starts in Seattle and ends in New Orleans – visiting Alaska, Vancouver, San Francisco, LA, Cabo, the Panama Canal and Cartagena – also sailing as a week-long Seattle to Alaska to Vancouver cruise;
• it’s Saturday so that means lots of 7- and 8-day cruises starting, including trips to the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Alaska;
• we’re at the beginning of “leaf peeping” season in North America, so the ms Veendam is starting a 7-day cruise from Quebec City to Boston – and back again, if you can take two weeks off.

Looking ahead:  Only five months ’til Valentine’s Day, with 14 cruises scheduled for departure on February 14, 2014.  02/14/2014 is kind of interesting, numerology-wise.