Actually this is something we have long talked about and finally are making it happen. Well a first for me anyhow, Susan has actually already circled the globe once before when she was a bit younger.
Australia more than a couple years ago
We absolutely love to travel, we have been to many countries and love them all. If someone asks me what my favorite city is I waiver between London, Hong Kong, New York, Barcelona and Quebec City, But truly it is wherever I am with Susan.
We discovered cruising in 2011 with a 3 nighter on the Disney Dream and we never looked back. Since then we have done many Caribbean cruises, Alaska, the Med, Transatlantic, the Baltic and the Maritimes. We have been on more than 20 cruises with , Disney, Holland America, Celebrity, Princess, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian and MSC. Our longest cruise to date is 13 days.
Every single cruise we have been on has been way too short.
But not this time.
The idea of getting away for months and enjoying each other and our lives became a glimmer of an idea a couple years back.
We were on our Maritimes cruise sailing out of Boston on the Holland American Zaandam bound for Montreal.
It was a beautiful afternoon on the top deck and we started chatting with a lovely older couple while enjoying our first cocktail of the trip. As it often happens we started talking about the cruises we have been on and while having done many were sad they had never done a world cruise. Now they felt like they were too old for such an adventure, they were probably correct. But, they looked at us and said in no uncertain terms that we should do it while we had our health.
We talked about this conversation often and it really started to come into focus as we watched our parents get old and become unable to travel and it became clear as a bell when a very young best friend was diagnosed with a horrible cancer. We knew then and there that we had to make it happen. Life is just too short.
So we have the motivation, did we have the means? Turns out with a little creative savings (we saved everything) we could make it happen.
Next the question became with which line and when.
I don’t know how much “live” reading I will be able to do since we too will be on a world cruise (but on Oceania), but I am bookmarking your blog anyway. Have a wonderful trip.