I know many of you enjoy taking cruises but I've scratched any
thought of that off my list permanently.
When Mrs.E. and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in
February we gave some thought to taking a cruise in a nice,
warm climate. I checked into the availability of two or
three in January and we gave it some serious consideration
since we've never done a cruise before (other than complements
of Uncle Sam in the Navy) This was just before the seriousness
of the covid-19 thing was known.
Reflecting back now ... We are very thankful we opted *not*
to do it. We ended up just having a celebration party
organized by our kids and attended by about 75 people.
That was on Feb 15th. Fortunately, it appears nobody
in attendance had already been infected.
If we had waited a few more weeks to schedule the party,
I doubt it would have happened.
My IBM and golf buddy in Bradenton was on one of those nightmare
cruises around South America and he ended up being trapped on the ship
for 3 weeks until they finally went to Miami. It actually worked out
OK because that was where his car was anyway. They were supposed to
fly back from Chile but Chile would not let them land. The cruise line
shuttled them to the airport for flights home and that was where his
car was. He did get an unscheduled trip through the Panama Canal and
he had a nice suite so being on the ship an extra 3 weeks wasn't
horrible.
Ahh...another advantage of being on a cruise ship...a free extension
because of a breakout of a virus on board. Add that to food poisoning,
falling overboard, hitting reefs and sinking, crashing into other ships,
and it is easy to see why the cruise life is so popular.
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