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It seems we have quite a variety of people on the board. It might be interesting to see which of you was the first to take a cruise or cross an ocean.
Tell us what year you took your first cruise and the name of the ship you sailed on. Your age at the time might be interesting as well.
Joe at TravelPage.com
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Carryoncarryingon :-)
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But things change. We went to work driving a truck as a team. Hey, we moved to Arkansas, and after 6 months of enjoying Bill Clinton's economy there, we had to do something to pay the bills, even though I'd sworn I'd never drive a truck again.
By 1993, we'd been in every state in the contiguous U.S. Dottie (my wife) had lived in Nome, Alaska, as a child when her dad was stationed there in the Army. So the only state we couldn't claim was Hawaii. When we were approaching the end of our first year at our current company, in 1993, we decided to go to Hawaii. I told Dottie to contact a travel agent and get some info on it. We received a stack of brochures, and one evening Dottie was looking through them.
"THIS is what I want to do!" she suddenly shouted.
"What, what?" I asked.
"There's a cruise around the Hawaiian islands, and since we don't know where we want to visit or what we want to see, let's do this!"
"OK, call the agent and book it tomorrow!" I replied.
And she did. She booked us for a week on the dear departed Constitution.
We knew nothing much about cruising and approached it with some trepidation, but by the end of the week, Dottie was so in love with it that I thought I would have to fill her up with Mai Tais and use a wheelbarrow to get her off that ship!
And the rest, as they say, is history.
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