How is the Explorer going to get there. It cannot fit through the Panama Canel. Also, it is scheduled to replace the Voyager next summer at Bayonne NJ. The Voyager is going to Europe.
There are a couple of ways to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific without using the Canal...ones kind of icy though. Who knows what is going to happen when two additional FR class ships enter service in the Caribbean? I had heard the same rumor a year or so ago.