After reading an ad in travel and leisure in 1981 that advised "for once in your life, live", I signed us,( me, wife, 10 year old son), up for the 80 day QE2 world cruise in 1982. I had saved enough for the down payment on a new house and spent it all on the cruise. We weren't rich but it was the times when oil seemed to be running out and the trip had been on my bucket list since age 8 as a little boy in Staten Island watching the British ships come into NY harbor. I gave my partner my salary for three months and we taught our son fifth grade on the ship. I never regretted it and never built the new house. Every day was an adventure and my son would watch George C Scott play cards with Art Buchwald on sea days. We rode elephants in Sri Lanka, sampans in Hong Kong harbor, hydrofoils to Macau, met Christian Barnard in Capetown, cabled car up Table Mountain and Corcovado, watched ash spew from Sakurajima volcano, and cruised the Panama Canal. In a more secure financial position in 2005 we did it again east to west and splurged on five day land tours in China, India, New Zealand and Australia. What a memorable experience!
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After reading an ad in travel and leisure in 1981 that advised "for once in your life, live", I signed us,( me, wife, 10 year old son), up for the 80 day QE2 world cruise in 1982. I had saved enough for the down payment on a new house and spent it all on the cruise. We weren't rich but it was the times when oil seemed to be running out and the trip had been on my bucket list since age 8 as a little boy in Staten Island watching the British ships come into NY harbor. I gave my partner my salary for three months and we taught our son fifth grade on the ship. I never regretted it and never built the new house. Every day was an adventure and my son would watch George C Scott play cards with Art Buchwald on sea days. We rode elephants in Sri Lanka, sampans in Hong Kong harbor, hydrofoils to Macau, met Christian Barnard in Capetown, cabled car up Table Mountain and Corcovado, watched ash spew from Sakurajima volcano, and cruised the Panama Canal. In a more secure financial position in 2005 we did it again east to west and splurged on five day land tours in China, India, New Zealand and Australia. What a memorable experience!
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