I have always tended to avoid cruises much as I would any activity where thousands of people are involved … crowds are so not me! I viewed them as something one would do in the elder years, if at all … 🫤 well hello to my ripe old 71 years with sad arthritic knees … I keep pretending I can still hike 10 plus km trails … ha … happy to limp along for 2-3 km a day 😂🤣. Reality check complete! My daughter and family treated me to a fabulous (as it turned out, despite my early hesitancy) eleven night Alaskan cruise. How I enjoyed the scenery, being catered to for all meals, laundry done by anyone other than me 😂, pools, steam rooms, massages, endless entertainment (which I must admit I rarely participated in much to the chagrin of my friends who love late evening entertainment … I far prefer the peacefulness of early mornings to late nights), wonderful shore excursions exploring small coastal Alaskan towns. So much to enjoy! Age has a way of humbling and changing us in surprisingly delightful way.s. Did I enjoy the crowds on a larger ship holding 3,000 people? … no!! But it was hardly as bad as I had imagined … humans? We are so adaptable!

Who on earth could have possibly predicted me to be on an Alaskan Inner Voyage Cruise on my very first trip outside of Canada in well over three years, after the insanity of the covid years ??!! But here are my pictures to attest to this new reality for this gypsy soul 🫤 😂 Landlubber no more lol!