It’s been a journey what with being driven to Fort Lauderdale from Naples and an overnight before trying the “Get on the boat” lottery. First off there was NOBODY at the port. Have never seen this at the busy Ft Lauderdale port. Two ships but the big one was just sitting and ours was, well, twenty people waiting for boarding to begin. This ship holds almost six hundred passengers so it was a wtf moment. No crowds to board even a small ship is unusual We eventually lear

This blog has gone dark since January of 2020 when we flew out of Buenos Aires on a dark and stormy night with rumors of virus swirling andhaunting the edges. Little did we know that in a few weeks passengers would be prisoners confined to ships unwanted by all countries. Almost a year ago we booked our upcoming test cruise thinking the pandemic would surely be over. How wrong we were. Our ship to come The Silver Spirit January 14th cruise was cancelled because of Covid.