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Experience: we sold everything to live on cruise ships

I used to get seasick – but after taking a chance on a cruise, I fell in love with ship-living, met my future partner onboard, and gave up life on land Until I was 47, I thought cruises were stupid. I’d grown up by a lake and loved water, but even a one-hour ferry trip left me feeling nauseous. Being trapped on a ship for a week or more seemed like a terrible idea. Then in 2019, a friend couldn’t take his Caribbean cruise and offered it to me for just a few hundred dollars. It seemed too good a chance to miss, so I stocked up with travel sickness patches and pills, and got onboard. Continue reading...

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Experience: we sold everything to live on cruise ships, I used to get seasick – but after taking a chance on a cruise, I fell in love with ship-living, met my future partner onboard, and gave up life on land Until I was 47, I thought cruises were stupid. I’d grown up by a lake and loved water, but even a one-hour ferry trip left me feeling nauseous. Being trapped on a ship for a week or more seemed like a terrible idea. Then in 2019, a friend couldn’t take his Caribbean cruise and offered it to me for just a few hundred dollars. It seemed too good a chance to miss, so I stocked up with travel sickness patches and pills, and got onboard. Continue reading…

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