what's the rush now? I'm asking seriously, but also rhetorically.

What are you going to "see" in Newfoundland in, say, eight days? It probably looks the same as, well, Maine in eight days...OK, well, Maine with a cool accent...

I'm sure you could "do" the south coast of Newfoudland in 8 days...then again, people "do" the entire BC/Alaska coast in --what is it?-- five days in a cruise ship (we took five months).

I'm not being judgmental, just playing devil's advocate --what kind of experience do you want to have? I've asked ask myself the same question recently when thinking about a potential Pacific cruise in a several years' time. We could go around most of the Pacific, from the PNW, through Polynesia/Micronesia, Guam, up to Japan, across to the Aleutians (Alaska), and back down the BC coast to the PNW in 19 months. It's been done (Hal and Margaret Roth, back in the '60s, as described in their classic book "Two On A Big Ocean"). But it seems really, really fast --is that the kind of experience I'd want to have? I haven't decided yet.

I, too, feel far behind schedule, so to speak (I was hoping to do such a cruise years and years ago)...yet don't feel like I want to rush. I feel like I want to hurry up and slow down