At sea en route to Vietnam: The DrsC have done many cruises, literally sailed the “seven seas.” We’ve cruised the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian Oceans. Doing so we’ve visited every continent, including Antarctica, and sailed both above the Arctic Circle and below the Antarctic Circle.
We’ve reached the point where there aren’t many places left we want to visit. Yet we keep cruising, inevitably going back to places we’ve been before.
More often than in the past, we stay on board and let the other pax do the shore excursions. So ... why keep cruising?
I have an answer, maybe even a good one. If we spend a week or a month or more on a cruise ship, it is like being a guest at Downton Abbey for that period of time.
While aboard, we don’t lift a finger. Instead we have ship’s staff who take care of all our needs. They bring our room service breakfast, serve our supper in multiple courses, clean and restock our room, wash our clothes, provide entertainment, and keep us safe.
All we do is get up, get cleaned up, get dressed, and then relax and enjoy a day of leisure. As the other DrC says, it is a chance to play at being “upstairs’ while others take care of the “downstairs” chores.
Back in our normal lives, we are our own ‘staff.’ We do the shopping, cooking, cleaning, clothes washing, take out the trash, and the like. While cruising, all that is done by others. Maybe that’s reason enough to keep cruising.
