I really don't deserve the moniker CAPTAIN Badger as I'm about to embark on only my third cruise in December (PG - 12/4), but it sounded better than "Swabbie Badger". My two previous cruises were a 4-day Bahamas cruise on the old/original Big Red Boat out of Ft. Lauderdale (which partially explains the paucity of cruises in my resume) and Alaska on the Navigator it's 1st year there (which partially explains why I'm doing another Radisson cruise). I've been a Caribbean tiny resort person since 1990 and we've been to a number of pretty neat places, most recently our 1st trip to St. Barth. As a result, even a ship as small as the PG seems like an enormous number of people to join on a beach someplace. All that said, I couldn't be more excited about the December trip and we're combining it with Le Taha's Private Island before and Hotel Bora Bora after.

We live just east of Columbus, OH (where the recent lion sightings have occurred). I'm retiring in 18 days at 55 and have all sorts of plans for future travel.