Christmas – 24
The last day and the last supper on the good ship Regent Seven Seas Navigator. How sad but how glad everyone was to have made really good new friends. As Girlahead has already said, generally the Solos group on a ship seems to be the nadir or towards the bottom of the list of desirables, but this was the pinnacle. This group, which ranged from anything between 4 and 12, was without doubt the most exhilarating and exciting group on the ship.
There was a medical inventor who has 15 patents for his indispensibles. There was a former nurse who now employs 22 people shipping unused US healthcare products to third world countries (she’s supported by 50 or more volunteers). There was a pharmacist who’s shop somewhere up near the Canadian border burnt down and that was the reason to start traveling. There was also Patricio. Patricio Honores, the Brazilian who without doubt made a great switch when he escaped from being an auctioneer selling off valuable paintings to coming to sea to be a cruise director looking after valuable bodies (he was the Solos’ nannie).
Everyone on board seems to have made at least one future cruise reservation. One guy is going to be back on this very ship in a couple of months, going from Tahiti to Somewhere. Why? He’s been to both Tahiti and Somewhere but he hasn’t cruised from one to the other. That’s the latest trend, not just going to a place but going from that place to another set place. Some people on board seem to have made half a dozen cruise reservations (no wonder the on-board cruise consultant, call me Sweet, is beaming from ear to ear the whole time).
Thesr last night was the ideal occasion to go basic, fish and chips and they were really hunky-dory. Chunky chips, not skinny fries. Unable to decide between two desserts, Girlahead nibbled at both. Then she took off to get up early in the morning and on the way back to her home-at-sea for the last 22 nights she ran into the husband and wife duo, Jeff and Claudia Potts, both officers aboard. Bye-bye for now, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, and a big well done.
