This ain’t the Love Boat, but you would be excused to think maybe there’s an element of that, according to recent news headlines. Because, sure, there is an element of that.
Flavor
The Mystery of the Traveling Shoes
A resident Kit and I are friends with keeps finding shoes as she travels from city to city (including long before she got aboard our ship). That’s right, shoes, and definitely not usually broken-down discards.
Interesting People
We have all sorts of interesting people onboard — Residents, I mean. I thought I’d tell you about one you’ll likely recognize. I certainly knew his name — and I was able to tell him his own surname.
The Officers Answer Questions
Some Q&As with, particularly, our two captains helps to explain the differences between cruising, and Residential Cruising.
The First 90 Days
90 days of sailing. What an interesting way to measure time and life. But then, measuring time is confounding. Measuring life is something I can get into, though.
The Cassini Mission to Saturn
Randy Cassingham worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 10 years, and watched the Cassini spacecraft being built. Here he talks about the brain behind the mission design, right up to the time he went back to California to be there when Cassini was intentionally destroyed.
The Only One There
Introducing the Speaker’s Corner: a series of talks By the Residents, For the Residents. Many, though not all, will be posted here.
The Rock
Going to the highest point in town is something I love to do in my travels. I’ve taken cars, cable cars, trams, and elevators to the top — and of course I’ve walked. As we sailed into the Gibraltar harbor on October 20, that memory came to mind, acting as an inspiration to scale that high point, that point known as The Rock of Gibraltar.
BBC Documentary: The Never-Ending Cruise Story
“The round the world cruise that was stranded in Belfast. After months of delays, the ship finally set sail. Find out how the passengers stayed upbeat while their trip of a lifetime started with the stress of being stuck in Northern Ireland. We hear from those who are calling the cruise home for the next three years.” —BBC
The First Weeks as Residential Cruisers
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. 🙂
The Troubles
Residential Cruising means full-time travel, and I knew I’d learn things and get new perspectives from travel, which is A Good Thing. That started before we even boarded our ship.