"Field Trips"

We are cruise people. We love cruises. Some people say they don't think they could spend 30 or 40 or 100 days on a ship. Not us, we love it! We love days at sea. We love days in port. We love ports we have been to before. We like being treated like we are special. We like trying new and different food and drinks and activities we have never dreamed we could attempt much less accomplish.
We took our first cruise in 1980 with a group of friends and friends of friends. We were 29 or 30 and figured we would need a large group to help keep us entertained. We were innocent and niave and didn't have much money so we booked the cheapest inside cabin in the bowels of the ship for a week in the Caribbean. We saw the San Souci Palace in Haiti, El Morro in San Juan, a rum factory in Dominican Republic and Charlotte Amalie in St Thomas. It cost us $800+- per person and took us a year to save and pay for it. We loved it!

For one reason or the next we didn't go again for almost 20 years. In 1999 we decided to go to the Mexican Riviera for our 30th wedding anniversary. By this time we had a bit more money so we booked an ocean-
view stateroom. WOW! did we ever think we were royalty. A window! That one cost us about $1000 for both of us. The prices have continued to go down compared to other things through the years.

Now we are up to balconies and swear to never go back. We have now sailed a total of 22 times all in balconies except for those first 2. We love having our own private little haven to view sites entering or leaving port. We have seen the inside passage in Alaska twice this way. The Grand Canal of Venice, a good portion of the Caribbean, and ports up and down the coast of Mexico from Cabo to Acapulco to the Panama Canal. We like to have a glass of wine before dinner or watch dolphins and fish as we traverse the oceans.

We are cruise people.