We Are Still Not Cruise People

November update

As many of you have seen in the news, the three-year world cruise was cancelled.

It was not a sudden occurrence; they were planning to buy a ship for this voyage and the sale fell through. As the days and weeks passed and there was no purchase announcement, it became increasingly apparent that we weren’t going. While we remained hopeful, we also started brainstorming back-up arrangements in parallel.

Perhaps I’ll write a post with more details about what went down from our perspective, but this time I’m keeping it short and sweet because we are busy reassembling our lives on land as quickly as possible. We’ve been living out of our suitcases since late September, so the prospect of having more than one pair of jeans to wear on any given day is downright thrilling!

The plan is to get a house that is comfortable and easy to maintain both for when we have guests and for when we travel. We have family in the Orlando area who have been kind enough to let us occupy their fabulous guest room while we get our lives back together. We are in the process of buying a house nearby, getting a car, finding movers to get us out of storage, etc.

We are also deciding what to do to with this blog’s content moving forward because we realize our menu listed gourmet worldwide adventure and now we’re serving suburban central Florida—a classic bait and switch. We have a few ideas. More on that to come…

We are certainly disappointed that we aren’t going. It was an exciting concept! But we always knew that it was a risk. Bold new ideas don’t often launch perfectly on the first try. So please don’t feel too sorry for us; perhaps plan to come visit or travel with us instead!

Reunited early with the stuff in our storage unit