It all started much the way it always does. Poking around for a great vacation deal for my wife and I, and was looking for cruises this time, preferably from where I don’t have to fly (which I now hate to do). Hmmm, what’s out of Boston. Ah, here’s some stuff. What’s this? Hmmm, 35 days? Well, I’m a daydreamer, so let the imagination rip. Interesting ports, always wanted to go to Iceland and Greenland. Round trip from Boston? Zero flying? Hmmm.
The itinerary includes Maine, Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, England, the Faroe Islands, with different stops on the way back across.
Wake up dummy. You can’t take 5 weeks in a row off. Couldn’t shake it out of my head all day though. It then hit me. These are the kinds of cruises people do when they retire. My wife has Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. This isn’t the more common Relapsing-Remitting variety, which comes and goes. This is the kind that affects one all the time, and just when you think you’ve adjusted, gets worse. Repeat. Plateaus and downhills. Pretty sucky.
So I’ve accepted that retirement for us doesn’t mean a whole lot in the fun department. So why shouldn’t I do this now? First thing is to see what Neesh would think.
Of course, much as it starts the way it always does, the outcome is just as predictable.
YES!!!!!!!!
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