We spent the 2019 Christmas season with family and had plans to head off for another international destination in early 2020. It was about this same time that the media started to mention some mysterious viral like disease that had been discovered in China. Coverage about the virus began to grow as the number of cases grew and spread across the world. Our plans for a long cruise were cancelled as the US and countries across the world went into lockdown.
Travel either domestically or internationally became an irrelevant afterthought as fear of this disease, and grief over loved ones and acquaintances who became critically ill or passed away dominated everyone's lives. Thankfully things began to improve both here and abroad. It's a "new normal" out there, but at least now it is somewhat "normal".
As we began to travel again, our travels were domestic destinations, frequently close to Sarah and her family or Ben. It's now time to dust off the passports that have been in the fireproof lock box for the past three and a half years. On the horizon, we have a couple of cruises, as well as some time on land in Spain and Portugal. On Thursday we will be hopping on board the Enchanted Princess in Fort Lauderdale for a trans-Atlantic cruise that will end fourteen days later in Barcelona, Spain. We will have five nights in Barcelona before flying on to Lisbon, Portugal for five nights. We then jump on the Norwegian Sun for a nineteen-day cruise that will bring us to Miami.
