Crossing the Line: A Suggested Itinerary for the South Pacific

First, you find the invisible line. Then you pay your tolls and politely ask Poseidon to let you cross. He's the one in charge out here, after all.

Once he says yes, you cross, raise your first drink with good friends on deck, and watch your first sunset on the South Side with the one you love.

Alex, Leigh-Ann, and friends raising drinks together on the ship's deck — First drinks with good friends on deck.

Next, you try to find Moorea! Then Raiatea! Then Tahiti, so you can practice the three French words you know. Along the way you climb up for views that don't look real, float in water so clear and warm you never want to get out, and sit down for a long lunch by the beach with a cold Hinano.

Four friends standing at a mountain lookout with a dramatic green peak behind them — Climbing up for views that don't look real.

Alex and Leigh-Ann taking a selfie with jagged green peaks behind them — Climbing up for views that don't look real.

Leigh-Ann floating in clear turquoise water — Water so clear and warm you never want to get out.

Alex at a beachside lunch table with a glass of Hinano beer — A long lunch by the beach with a cold Hinano.

And then you keep sailing on in search of Hobbiton.

That's my suggested itinerary for today. 😍