I swear by St Crispin's coaxle, I don't get it

[Raul-02]

This woman and her husband decided to spend their faltering days retired on cruise ships - one after another - until Posiden calls them to their watery reward.
Now never mind that I think cruise ships are disgusting in so many ways I can't count them. Because that's just me.
But how long till these two become mind numbingly bored with it?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/05/20/cruise-ship-retire-angelyn-burk/

 

[Doofy]

This woman and her husband decided to spend their faltering days retired on cruise ships - one after another - until Posiden calls them to their watery reward.
Now never mind that I think cruise ships are disgusting in so many ways I can't count them. Because that's just me.
But how long till these two become mind numbingly bored with it?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/05/20/cruise-ship-retire-angelyn-burk/

No worse than those that live in Hotels in perpetuity. To each their own, I guess.

 

[Raul-02]

No worse than those that live in Hotels in perpetuity.

I'd rephrase that as "Almost as bad as ~ ~ " But at least the hotellers can go places. A cruise line stops at a port of call where you have just enough time to go buy a snow globe and a trinket with the name of the place and maybe some fudge.

 

[ljjhouser]

In my estimation, they must already be bored. Or they might have considered the unexplored land world and interesting people who inhabit it. Far better than being limited like that. A cruise or two is great. But to give up the wide world and all that it presents, not me. I would miss my:
dog, tractor, lake, wooded country, rivers, canoeing, kayaking, eating at Strouds, El Mexico Lindo Restaurant in Harrison Ark, the Ozark Mountains, my truck, fly fishing, my Jeep Wrangler, my wife (who would also say - not me), my daughter (who would move in with my wife), my friend, my neighbors, my house (that I would have to sell), and SO MUCH MORE. What an interesting ambition - like having 4000 people with you when the bathrooms don't work --- oh, I remember that.

I think there is a song about that -- by the Eagles - with Jo Walsh playing - HOTEL CALFORNIA - just can't leave. Your life managed by a cruise line.

 

[Doofy]

I'd rephrase that as "Almost as bad as ~ ~ " But at least the hotellers can go places. A cruise line stops at a port of call where you have just enough time to go buy a snow globe and a trinket with the name of the place and maybe some fudge.

You have valid point there!

 

[CalG]

For some folks, the only thing in life is "easy".

That's not me. If they are on a boat, they are off the roads, out of the stores, and out of my way! ;-)

 

[tallyho8]

I love cruising and seeing the world and meeting different peoples with different beliefs and ideals. But I am extremely happy to get home after a 21 day cruise which isn't very often.. Most of them are much shorter. I could never live on a cruise ship as I have always been an outdoors person and not one who spends much time indoors.

I can see where a white collar city dweller who only goes outdoors to catch a taxi to his office could stand to live on a cruise ship but I would go bonkers staying away from home and my tractor and horses for over a month. On my cruises I may only be in port for 8 hours a day in different Hawaii or Alaskan ports or even in Ireland, Scotland, France, Denmark, or different Caribbean ports, but it amazing how much you can learn about a country in such short of a time. The two days we spent in Cuba absolutely amazed me at how different it was from all I had heard and expected. The underseas wildlife in Alaska visible from a semi-sub was beyond belief. The pre-Columbian ruins in Central America were mesmerizing. The massive amount of plastics in parts of the Pacific Ocean was mind blowing and created the realization that something must be done.

I realized how much more I have in common to the peasants in 3rd world countries than I do to the suits on Wall Street. And how hard it is for them to achieve the standard of living that we enjoy in this great country of ours. AMERICA, still #1.

 

[bunyip]

My BIL and his wife did a 6 month cruise, we just crossed Bass Strait that takes 12 hours, I was glad to get off, same for long train journeys, sit and watch endless red sand and dust for 4 days, include me out.

 

[CalG]

I've always wanted to tour Italy on a Vespa.

 

[seville009]

Watched one of those History Channel (or whatever) "Amazing Ships" type show maybe six years ago.....was a ship of condos being built. People pay $2 million or so for a custom condo on a fully serviced ship and just cruise around the world forever. Obviously not the same as a basic cruise ship, of course. Looked interesting.