We must have looked like travel virgins, dressed as we were in new clothes and towing shiny new luggage. Even our passports were brand new with nary a stamp in them. And here we were boarding a cruise ship. Oh, the shame of it!
We were reprising our original “Vagabonds” voyage, a repositioning cruise to Barcelona and the start of another three years outside of the USA. It isn’t that we like cruising – heck, we hardly consider it “travel” – but at $450 for fifteen days across the Atlantic is has to be one of the world’s great bargains.
Two weeks plus at sea, even with stops in Nassau, Madeira, Gibraltar and Alicante gets tedious. Too much food, too little exercise and too many people. Many of our fellow passengers would be continuing on to Dubai and Singapore . . . even Shanghai. Seven or eight weeks probably would do me in.
