I can hardly believe it’s been a year since my last post!! Shame on me!! We did take one cruise in between posts, and I will definitely add something about that at a later date. But, this post is about cruising, or lack thereof, due to COVID-19. If you have had one or several cruises canceled due to the pandemic, I’m sure like myself, you are having the cruise DT’s big time!
Who would have thought in mid-March 2020 when things shut down for ‘2 weeks’ that we would be where we are in November 2020? Very few cruise ships have gone out since March. From what I understand, the cruises were successful, with no spikes in COVID cases. But WHY does the CDC keep holding cruise ships back from restarting full swing? The only answer I can come up with is they are erring on the side of major caution.
Personally, I have been a whiney baby about not being able to take my cruise this past August. Because we couldn’t go, we decided to spend a week in Florida, since we already had flights etc. So we booked a timeshare in Delray Beach. Enter in the Governor of our fair State, who decided on August 1st to implement new mandatory quarantine procedures if we ventured outside our State. Week on the beach in FL – CANCELED!! Although I would have been able to work from home upon our return, my husband could not. Am I the only one who feels like EVERYTHING is against us these days? I doubt it very much. But we do tend to take things very personally during tough times like these. Adversity is a tough thing to overcome.
We also had a week planned in the Florida Keys at the end of October – also canceled because our Gov. has not lifted the travel ban. So we went to Rockland, Maine, on the coast. I tried so, so hard to be excited about just getting away, but I have to be honest and say my heart just was not in it. It was a nice enough time, but lots of things were closed, it was cold and rainy, and even though I could see the ocean from my unit, it just was NOT the same. I am feeling as disheartened as most people are these days.
The next planned vacation is a cruise in April 2021, rescheduled from our canceled August cruise. Like many others, I booked this thinking it’s PLENTY far out for all of this to be over. And here we are now in November, with cruises still canceled through the end of December. I feel like the avid cruiser out there is shaking, crying, screaming and moaning and groaning at this point. I think most of us are willing to get on a ship, COVID or not, and take our chances….mask free!! Yes, that is how much we LOVE to cruise, and it’s amazing how all of this has made me realize just how happy cruising makes me. How free I feel, because I totally unplug on a cruise ship – very little TV (only if I can’t sleep), absolutely no phone or internet usage. Just me and my hubby and the deep blue sea……
I know at some point cruises will resume, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say I am HOPING and PRAYING we go on our April cruise. We need it, for more reasons than usual, at this point. But I am really feeling defeated and hopeless right now. 😦
Pfizer says that their vaccine is 90% effective. Let’s get it out on the shelf people, so we can get it and get on with life!!
Until then…..cruise on virtually……
Just Cruisin' 