Tuesday, August 31, 2010
What's this blog about?
It's about my world cruise, currently slated to start in January 2012. Here's the URL if you want to see what I'm considering.
And why, you may be asking yourself, am I going to go on a world cruise? Well, last week, I got this snooty brochure from Yachts of Seabourne (or something like that), which I opened in order to sneer at its pretentiousness. I yelled "Dear God!" at its cost and threw into the recycle bag.
But it got me thinking. And the outcome of that process was, "Hey, I'm going to be dead within 20 or 30 years and probably health-challenged before that, and I should see the planet while I can still form memories and write blog entries about it."
At first, I thought, "World cruise. Cunard, of course." But then a friend with a little cruise experience said Holland America has a good reputation, so I looked at their offerings. They go more interesting places, and they start and end in this country. Tea and scones are all very well, but I really don't want to see Dubai or much of the Caribbean, and multiple formal evenings a week are not to my taste. (Let's face it, anything beyond jeans and T-shirts is not to my taste.) I'll get a respectable outfit or two to take along, but I suspect I'll spend most formal evenings sitting on deck watching the water go by or writing blog entries.
I won't have much to say for a while, I suspect, as details get worked out and specific choices get made. But given this great blog title, courtesy of my sister Jenny, it seemed criminal not to get something introductory online.
Besides which, I'm so excited about this I have to do something besides reading and re-reading and re-reading the Web page for the trip. I've got a trusted friend who's a travel agent getting specific information, and I spend way too much time checking to see whether there's any new email from her.
In the meantime, welcome to "Roberta Gets Around".
And why, you may be asking yourself, am I going to go on a world cruise? Well, last week, I got this snooty brochure from Yachts of Seabourne (or something like that), which I opened in order to sneer at its pretentiousness. I yelled "Dear God!" at its cost and threw into the recycle bag.
But it got me thinking. And the outcome of that process was, "Hey, I'm going to be dead within 20 or 30 years and probably health-challenged before that, and I should see the planet while I can still form memories and write blog entries about it."
At first, I thought, "World cruise. Cunard, of course." But then a friend with a little cruise experience said Holland America has a good reputation, so I looked at their offerings. They go more interesting places, and they start and end in this country. Tea and scones are all very well, but I really don't want to see Dubai or much of the Caribbean, and multiple formal evenings a week are not to my taste. (Let's face it, anything beyond jeans and T-shirts is not to my taste.) I'll get a respectable outfit or two to take along, but I suspect I'll spend most formal evenings sitting on deck watching the water go by or writing blog entries.
I won't have much to say for a while, I suspect, as details get worked out and specific choices get made. But given this great blog title, courtesy of my sister Jenny, it seemed criminal not to get something introductory online.
Besides which, I'm so excited about this I have to do something besides reading and re-reading and re-reading the Web page for the trip. I've got a trusted friend who's a travel agent getting specific information, and I spend way too much time checking to see whether there's any new email from her.
In the meantime, welcome to "Roberta Gets Around".
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