Greetings! We found Cruise Critic about 18 months ago, prior to our first RSSC Cruise, and are delighted to find LCT.

I am an old, native-born Californian. Born and raised in Orange. Bob was born in Idaho, moved to San Francisco at 6 weeks of age. His dad was stationed on Angel Island, and there was no dependent housing, or he would have been born in Calif. as well.

Bob's family moved to Juneau, Alaska, in 1953. They moved to Nome in 1958, Fairbanks in 1960,
and Anchorage in 1963. He went thru the 9.4 earthquake in 1964.

I went to Santa Rosa J.C., then moved back to Orange. When they tore down my favorite orange grove to put up an apartment complex, I moved to Alaska.

Bob worked in a women's clothing store in Anchorage, just around the corner from the travel agency I worked in. We were acquaintences for four years before he asked me out! Nine months later, we were married. It will be 29years on May 23.

We have one son, age 23.

Our first cruise together was in 1977, on the old Pacific Princess. We spent two weeks in Mexico with friends. Unbeknownst to Bob, I called Princess before we left and asked to sail from
Mazatlan to Los Angeles. We didn't find out until the day before sailing that we would be able to join the ship. Was he surprised!

We're Platinum on Princess, have sailed with Crystal, Carnival, RCCL, Seabourn, HAL, NCL, RSSC, and Temptress. We have enjoyed all of our cruises. Temptress was the most interesting -- a "soft" adventure cruise up and down the coast of Costa Rica. Only 15 pax, plus a film crew of 4. Talk about getting to know your fellow passengers!

My favorite cruise was a transAtlantic on Royal Princess. 10 Days, no ports!! Get up, eat breakfast, nap, eat lunch, nap, do some cross stitching or reading, eat dinner, dance, and sleep. Heaven!!!

Favorite ships are RSSC Navigator, Seabourn Sun,
and Royal Princess.

We moved back to Calif. ten years ago to be closer to our ever-shrinking family. We are in the third town north of the Golden Gate Bridge.


We did a Panama Canal cruise last March on RSSC Navigator to celebrate our aunt's 90th birthday,
and are taking her on the Navigator in May for our anniversary.

Next May we want to do something in Europe for our 30th anniversary, hopefully British Isles to Scandinavia.

I worked for Korean Air for 20 years in Anchorage. They offered a "buyout" and I took it when we moved back to Calif. Went to United, and when my job was moved to Chicago last year, I took a furlough.

Bob is self-employed, so we've been able to get away for some cruises.

I've decided I'm really tired of short cruises, and after our 7 day Bermuda, would prefer to stick with 10 days or more. Emphasis on "more."

Happy Cruising!