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The First Weeks as Residential Cruisers

by Randy Cassingham

I continue to get interview requests from the media. This one came in by email two days ago, but thankfully was told that my deadline was “in the next couple of days,” so hopefully this is good: I just hit Send on my reply, and now I’ll format it up into a post here. 🙂

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Categories Blog, Flavor, Progress 28 Comments

Ireno Day 7: The Bridge

by Randy Cassingham

Kit and Ric arrived in Derry late this morning, and there was a bit of a surprise waiting.

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Categories Blog 15 Comments

Ireno Days 5 & 6: Winding Down

by Randy Cassingham

Day 5 brought a slight change of plans.

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Ireno Day 4: Second Wind

by Randy Cassingham

After a build-up of fatigue, with some extra rest yesterday (Day 4, Monday), Kit seems to have built up a second wind. She sounds downright energized again today.

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Categories Blog 12 Comments

Ireno Day 3: Settling In

by Randy Cassingham

Kit and Ric got off to their usual early start — before breakfast — and stopped a little beyond the half-way point. The story of the journey, of course, is between those points.

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Categories Blog 13 Comments

Ireno Day 2: A Day of Stories

by Randy Cassingham

OK, so most days are really just a string of short stories. These seem to be a bit more interesting than usual.

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Categories Blog 17 Comments

Ireno Day 1: Getting Her Land Legs Back

by Randy Cassingham

Day 1 of Kit and Ric’s “Ireno” ended after 6 hours: “We walked 11 miles today and have stopped for the day,” she texted. “I’m exhausted. We’ve stopped at a sweet B&B and we’ll get dinner here too.”

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Categories Blog 16 Comments

NCL Stole My Most Important Bag

by Randy Cassingham

Two weeks ago in the This is True newsletter I mentioned that Norwegian Cruise Line lost my “technology bag” with my digital recorder, my iPad, my expensive keyboard that enables my fastest typing, an external monitor, cables, and a lot more.

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Categories Blog, Progress 32 Comments

Blog #3: On Our Way!

by Randy Cassingham

Yesterday evening, we started our journey.

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Categories Blog, Progress 49 Comments

Blog #2: Not Only Homeless, We Can’t Even Live In Our Car

by Randy Cassingham

When getting ready to move into full-time Residential Cruising, we didn’t just sell our house and Get Rid of all our stuff, making us “homeless” until we could board our ship.

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Categories Attitude, Blog, Preparation 25 Comments

Blog #1: It’s Getting Real

by Randy Cassingham

We passed a big milestone this weekend.

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Categories Attitude, Blog, Preparation 30 Comments
 
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