We've enjoyed your posts and lived vicariously through them, but now we're ready to have you back on the boards regularly and to hear even more details about the Voyager, ports, new friends, etc. Welcome home!

Definitely - welcome back! :app:

Masaki

Can't wait to hear all about it!

So dump those post cruise blues and all the laundry and hit the keyboard, we want all the facts! ;)

"Dump the laundry" !! Not my job. I have a piled up desk of problems. But I will write a long essay on cruising in general and RSSC in particular in a few days. Perhaps the rest of the gang will start before me. Reading the comments on the stalking issues was really funny. The computers kept going off for long periods, but Mike seemed to be on top of everything.
Great to be back. Ship docked at 6.30 a.m. and we got off at 9.30 a.m.!!

Thanks for the warm welcome back! Margo, I am seriously struggling with the post-cruise blues. I went from a Radisson ship to a Radisson hotel. A shock to the system! I'm in windy Chicago today hoping it will hit the promised 60 degrees. One definite casualty of the trip is I left my warmer raincoat in Puerta Vallarta. The weather's supposed to get rainy & back into the 40/50s over the next few days. Shopping will be in order sometime today.

Overall, we had a marvelous time on the trip. All the group preparation for the VTC added significantly to our enjoyment. We hope to sail again with them. Many thanks, especially Mike and Neville, for making it possible. I'll write more when I can pull myself out of the funk. Even a free Ben & Jerry's cone at the Cleveland airport (WHERE IT SNOWED BRIEFLY BETWEEN FLIGHTS!!) didn't help much.

The thought of VJ7 in a few short weeks is keeping me moving today. Cheers, Anne

Welcome home everyone!!

Can hardly wait to see the photos of my Dad at the limbo competition <img border="0" alt="[rofl]" title="" src="graemlins/rofl.gif" /> !

Anyone go to Patsy's lectures? Were they any good?

Welcome Home (or to Chicago in Anne's case :-))!!

Marc - Bud MacFarlane, Dick Holt and two professors were the lecturers on board as far as I know. Who is Patsy?

Thanks for the warm welcome! Cheers, Anne

I thought Patsy Shroeder was a lecturer on your cruise. She used to be one of our Colorado Congressmen. She was announced when they announced the World Cruise lecturers. Perchance she backed out.

She may have been on an earlier leg of the trip, Marc. I'm sorry we missed her. Bud MacFarlane had great attendance at his lectures, so I think there would be a lot of interest in Patsy's thoughts and experiences as well. Cheers, Anne

It is always nice to come back home but I miss the Voyager terribly. Just think of it, I have to put my own napkin on my lap and no one folds my TP into a point!

We had a great time on the trip. It was a lot of fun to meet the other board memebers who were part of the VTC. What a great group of people! (oh my, I used the G word - glad I was here and not the other place).

I will post some things about the trip in a few days. I came home to an incredible back log of work and personal related items that I almost wish I had not gone away. But I really am glad we went and I am looking forward to the next time (but not sure yet when that will be). I really envy the people who can take the time to do the world cruise and live on board for months at a time. Maybe someday (sigh).

Welcome back to all the other VTCers and I'll post more in a few days.

Mike

Even though I rapidly posted a warning about the vibration and jerking motions felt in the stern cabins, and their negative effects on our cruise experience, the question may arrise "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?" Well, other than that, "the play" was great. All too many people over-react to a problem and assume that I will do so as well. No. I merely want to say don't book a cabin too near the stern on the Voyager. I don't mean to say don't take the Voyager or don't take Radisson. In fact, we booked a Diamond cruise while onboard for May 28, '05, knowing from experience that the Diamond has never vibrated or jerked in its life.

Nevil, despite your comments, there is laundry which could not be done on that 100% full ship, and numerous matters of personal business to be handled after a two week absense. and then there is the matter of my mother's health, which strangely improved greatly in my absense (?). But when matters settle down, I'll try to post something on the more positive aspects of the cruise.

Thanks,
Richard :) :) :)

Richard - glad to hear that your mother is doing better! And I'm equally as glad that you went ahead with the cruise despite the misgivings!

Masaki