Track our Progress (Bob)

A fun way to track our location - and find all kinds of interesting info about the ship - is via the app MarineTraffic. Download it, then search for MH Insignia. If you don't add MH you get about a dozen other boats. As I write this, it's heading from Mazatlan to San Diego on its way to San Francisco where we board, and the it returns south for the start of the Around the World cruise.

Oceania Insignia’s 2023 Around the World (ATW) In 180 Days cruise was divided into 8 segments. The roughly 650 passengers were served by about 400 crew members, making it one of the smaller ships in Oceania’s fleet, allowing us to enter smaller ports and cruise through smaller channels (e.g. in Antarctica for example). About 400 of the 650 passengers were ATW stalwarts; the other 250 joined at and for various segments.

The segments were:

1.Pacific Panorama (from San Francisco to Santiago de Chile)

2. Antarctic Explorer (from Santiago to Rio de Janeiro)

3. Atlantic Expedition (from Rio to Cape Town, South Africa)

4. Safaris and Global Gems (from Cape Town to Dubai)

5. Far East Legends (from Dubai to Singapore)

6. Southeast Asia Array (from Singapore to Bangkok)

7. Spiritual Shrines (from Bangkok to Tokyo), and

8. Aleutian Bridgeway (from Tokyo to San Francisco).

The first book covers the first four segments (from San Francisco to Dubai). The second book covers the last four (from Dubai to San Francisco).