Before we head into Panama and the Canal, we stop by the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, with a special event along the way.
Visiting Guadeloupe, Antigua, St. Kitts, Sint Maartin, and Tortola (BVI) on our way across the Caribbean.
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.
In 2015, Randy and I discussed that someday, we wanted to retire to a cruise ship — Residential Cruising wasn’t yet a thing.
“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
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. 🙂
We are finally aboard our ship, after it finally passed all inspections (including the unfair ones, and the truly stupid ones), marking the true start of our Residential Cruising life.
Kit has been getting cranky at the wait in Belfast, and we got the news that it would be another week before we could board Odyssey and get going on our trip. “I really want to walk,” she said.
Gee, thanks, BBC. They started it — how we’re “stranded” in Belfast.
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.
It didn’t occur to us when we signed up for living on a Residential Cruising ship that we were being pioneers. Maybe we are pioneers in general already, and I just hadn’t considered it.
We’re still in pause mode: our Residential Cruising ship, which was supposed to sail May 15, still hasn’t sailed. At minimum it will be more than a month of delay — we’re not sure yet. And we’re not upset by that.
There was significant reaction to one aspect of my recent article about the Odyssey, so I thought I’d expand on it: how the crew is being treated on the first-ever Residential Cruising ship.