Wow, this is random, gonna do something I never thought I would. Go on a cruise. We’re booked the first week of January. Also going to launch out of the US, so I guess I’m entering the US which is another thing I wasn’t planning on doing. Fortunately, it’s just passing through.
It’s been too long since I’ve had a decent vacation with my spouse. A buddy hired my wife to do his admin work in about a week because he booked a last minute cruise. We got talking, turns out last minute cruises are absurdly inexpensive. Like, stupid. I got looking, it cost me $1000Canadian for a 5 day cruise. That’s $1k for 5 days of sun, and 5 days away from work. Both of which I’m sorely in need of. I wouldn’t have done it for $3K, but at a grand…I just can’t turn it down.
Well in their defence, they’re also the worst polluting industry on the entire planet and they’re a very effective covid distribution center. So they got that going for them.
It’s just…it was $1000. For 5 days. Hard to turn that down.
I have and will make an exception for destinations that are best explored by boat. Did a Galapagos family and friends cruise earlier this year. One still on my list is Alaska. Not exactly a cruise, but another I have on my list is chartering a barge with family/friends in French wine county.
The closest I ever got to a cruise was an Atlantic crossing from New York to Southampton on the Queen Mary 2. It was something my wife had wanted to do as her family always travelled by ocean liner for their home leaves from Europe in the 1950s, including on the original Queen Mary.
I enjoyed it as well as there was a lot of educational stuff to do on board. The highlight for an old rock music fan like me was meeting Roger McGuinn at his lecture.