good morning all. Sunny morning changing to showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Fine, we could use some rain.
Toppop, as long as you get a room with a nice big balcony, cruises are wonderful. That way if you love the water you get to watch it, and you don't feel penned in. If you don't want to get dressed up for formal night, you don't have to. I'd avoid the kid's lines, like Carnival or Disney. I've gone to Bermuda three times out of Baltimore, one of my favorite cruises, short and fun. You will likely stay at Nelson's Dockyard, on the Western end of Bermuda, and there are really cool high class shops nearby, where you can bring home Bermuda rum cake, little glass figurines (two tiny little guys on my kitchen windowsill for many years from that shop) and then you can rent mopeds and tour the island. It's all pretty flowers and totally civilized. I'd go back tomorrow.
Most folks who take cruises and were worried about them come back glowing with praise and stories of good times, shore adventures, etc. Bad weather? I personally love it, never got sick but them I'm a boater and the worse it was the better I liked it.
Getting sick? take Clorox disinfecting wipes and first thing you do is wipe down your room and door handles, trust no one. Then use the cruise ship "bump" instead of shaking hands. It's all about having a lot of people in a confined area, just like your kids in day care. If you are extra careful, unlikely you will get sick. And my will you eat well. Everyone should do it once, just get a balcony room. I've done about 15 cruises, starting off with awful interior rooms won as a sales prize in some insurance contest way back when. Quickly learned it was worth paying more for nicer balcony room higher up in ship.
When my wife was very sick, and we knew she didn't have a lot longer, we had time for one more cruise. I told her to pick the room this time. She picked the ship's penthouse suite, complete with a grand piano and a jacuzzi tub out on the double balcony. It was all she wanted and I was glad to enable it for her. I could have bought a car for the same money, but the smile on her face during dark times was all worth it.
I have one more cruise I'd like to make, and I'd better find a wealthy woman to take me. Have always wanted to take the Queen Elizabeth liner to England. Then maybe a cruise from there through the Mediterranean. This is what I think of when someday I sell this farm and can afford trips like this again. Haven't met anyone who took a river cruise in Europe that didn't have a ball, if one is worried about getting seasick. Not many waves in a canal.
