Day 111 of 111 (5/11/19) – Day 2 of 2 at sea on the way to Los Angeles!!!

What can I say. It is hard to put into words what a trip like this means. It certainly gives you a unique perspective on what an immense and wondrous world we live in. Every day at noon the Captain or the officer of the bridge would come on the PA system and give a quick update on where in the world we are. It would go something like, latitude xxx, longitude yyy, making 18 kts, anticipating destination z at 8:00 AM tomorrow morning. The depth of the water under the keel is 5,645 meters or 18520 feet. Often the depth of the water was over 5,000 meters – more than 16,000 feet. Can you imagine the amount of water that is on the globe?  Us world cruisers now have a small understanding of just how vast the planet is. How you can go days in a row in the South Pacific and not even see another ship. Or recently, how we cruised northward along the Mexican coast and could see dozens of sea turtles and scores of dolphins right from our balcony. We even saw a flying manta ray from our balcony. I didn’t even know there was such a thing until we saw one and then heard it mentioned on the port talk.  We also felt immensely privileged to have gotten the opportunity to take such a wonderful trip. So many people because of the lack of funds, or time or health or adventure, fail to make the time for such a trip. There will be plenty of time to reflect on the entire trip, but one thing I can put out there right now is – DON’T WAIT.  There will never be the perfect time to take your adventure in life and it may not be an around the world cruise, but, for your sake, make it happen! We did, and we will be forever proud and thankful that we could and did!

Next stop – wait – there is no next stop! We will be home tomorrow!