“We’ve all survived! We survived a few years of the pandemic!”
The theater audience on the cruise ship Norwegian Jewel in late April excitedly cheered and applauded dynamic entertainer Stephanie Pope. Yes, it was definitely good to be cruising again. In fact, this was my husband Carl’s and my sixth cruise since October 2021. We have taken some 30 cruises over the past 25 years and had joined five other couples—longtime friends—on this eight-night cruise from San Diego to Vancouver, with port calls in , Oregon; Seattle; and Ketchikan, Alaska.
