We’re home, Travel Blogging will end for a couple of weeks until we leave for our next cruise, when it will resume. I consider this trip a success even if the other DrC did catch the “ship’s cold.” I will probably get it from her. It is a definite downside of cruising. Coop up 200+ people on a ship and someone will have brought a cold. It will circulate among those aboard.
In the old sailing ship days of months-long voyages, the first few weeks out would see the colds circulate and eventually die out. Then they’d be mostly healthy until they hit a new port and brought a new strain of respiratory virus on shipboard. Rinse and repeat.
Knowing this is why they quarantine astronauts for weeks before a launch, so they don’t take a virus with them. It makes for more comfortable trips. This NASA precaution is never going to happen on cruise ships so we deal with “the ship’s cold.”
Afterthought: Jackson airport has none of those covered tubes that cozy up to a plane and make walking off easy. We have to descend to the tarmac and walk to the terminal.
Upon arriving at Jackson I discovered that two weeks away - starting at 800 ft. in St. Paul and ending at or below sea level in NOLA - had destroyed our bodily adjustment to living over a mile high.
I got out of breath just walking the maybe 100 yds. to the luggage carousel. Since we're only here a week before heading south, I probably don't have time to regrow those extra red blood cells that had become redundant down near sea level.
