And - We're Off!
As many of you know, Michael and I are spending our kids' inheritance and taking a World Cruise. (You have to write it as World Cruise, not world cruise for some reason. That's how I always see it written on cruise discussion sites anyway.) We researched various cruise lines' World Cruises (Princess, Oceania, Viking Ocean) and Michael said about each one "But that's not AROUND the world." So when I showed him this Regent cruise that sails out of San Francisco and goes ALL THE WAY AROUND the world and back to San Francisco, he was in. This adventure will take 131 days: January 24 - June 4. We signed up for this trip in May 2018 and it seemed like it was so far away at the time. And now, here we are getting ready to depart. We have forwarded the mail to Anna, stopped the newspaper delivery and garbage pickup, arranged for someone to check the house and mow the lawn, gotten all our immunizations (flu, typhoid, polio, Hep A&B, cholera...