Romance at sea. Watching the sun set over the ocean. The band lightly playing in the background as you watch the sky turn from blue to gold and into stars and shimmering moonlight. It’s a formal night and you are both dressed up. You just came from dinner where you had escargot and lobster. You…
At the beginning of my career working on cruise ships I was offered a contract that was going to Hawaii. I thought it was an incredible once in a lifetime experience. What I found was that my naïveté of cruise ship life was showing. The reason being, that while Hawaii is beautiful and wonderful, if…
The process of me getting to Vermont from the ship in Manila took approximately 38 hours. In those 38 hours after leaving the ship I had my temperature checked three times (after I’d already had it checked twice onboard), went through security four times, watched a lot of movies, and in a testament to both…
After 100 days at sea I left the m/s Amsterdam on a Sea Princess tender in Manila Bay, Philippines. Stepping on that tender was the first time that I had left my ship since March 12th when we were in Cairns, Australia. It all came about fairly quickly. Now, I wasn’t technically “stuck” on the…
The other day I was sitting with a couple people (socially distanced, of course), when Stuart’s boss looks around and goes, “Where is everyone?” He wasn’t meaning that other people were meant to join us, but rather than at some point our ship got really empty. We knew there were less and less people onboard….
Tomorrow is the lovely three-month anniversary of the last time that we were on land. If you’d rather count days, today is lucky number 91. I don’t know if there is anything particularly lucky about it but maybe if I put it out in the universe it will be. I want to preface all of…
I have a friend that writes a personal finance blog and as such her monthly accountability posts are about how she’s doing with her personal finances. How logical. While I still don’t feel like I know exactly what my blog is about or might evolve into over time, the line that’s on the homepage of…
I’ve written a bit about how the ability to be flexible in this situation is what keeps you sane and functioning. That hasn’t changed in the last month, as we have no idea where we’re going. I seem to have gotten to a complacent level of that though as at this point I don’t really…
Alright, alright. I promised an update this week, and an update it shall be. We are still at anchor off of Manila in the Philippines. There are still lots of ships here with more joining our ranks daily. According to www.cruisemapper.com there are currently 23 ships here with more on their way. The first few…
