Yesterday evening, we started our journey.
Randy Cassingham
Blog #2: Not Only Homeless, We Can’t Even Live In Our Car
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.
Blog #1: It’s Getting Real
We passed a big milestone this weekend.
Products Worth Taking Along on Residential Cruising
I’ve long had a list of Recommended Products on my main site — stuff I actually did or do use that might be helpful — but I thought I’d talk about a few things that we’ve picked up recently specifically for our Residential Cruising life that are handy enough that they aren’t really about shipboard living: they’re useful even if you can’t join that life soon or ever.
Victoria Cruises Accused of Holding Refunds
Summary: Victoria Cruises Line, a would-be Residential Cruising ship operator, is becoming well known in various Facebook groups, including one called Victoria Cruise Residents, for not refunding customer deposits in a timely manner, even as provided by their own contract.
Keep Your Phone Number When Residential Cruising
It’s a Frequently Asked Question since it may be hard for many. And not just how to do it, but at a reasonable cost.
Life At Sea is Dead
Life At Sea, one of several companies working to break into the Residential Cruising market, has failed. They are not one of the companies we have been working with.
When Your Residential Cruise Launch is Delayed
Residential Cruising lines typically advertise a specific date that they will launch. Is it possible that the promised date slips, even at the last minute?
Not only yes, but it’s unfortunately likely.
Selling “Everything” (Part 1)
I posted an “Irony Alert” on the front page of the site — that even though we were behind schedule on writing articles for this project, we had to commit all spare time to cleaning out the house because it sold much more quickly than anticipated. Well, we are out, and gearing up to write again! The lesson here can help if you want to try Residential Cruising …or otherwise simplifying your life
Can You Afford Residential Cruising?
That was one of the first questions we asked ourselves.
Life At Sea: Can You Really Live for $30,000?
As recently as late June 2023, Fortune magazine was touting Life At Sea Cruises’ $30,000/year 3-year cruise, and “all inclusive” at that. Is that real?
It All Started with StoryLines
The pitch was, “For a cool $1 million, you can fulfill your dreams of spending life at sea indefinitely.”
The GrandMama of Residential Cruising
Lee Wachtstetter and her husband, Mason, liked to cruise: they did 89 journeys together, starting in 1962, to the Bahamas. “The day before my husband died of cancer in 1997, he told me, ‘Don’t stop cruising’,” she said in 2015. She is one of the first modern Residential Cruisers.