Cruise people

We have stumbled upon a new demographic of travelers. Few of these folks are grumpy, line up at the feeding troughs 'cruise' travelers. certainly not the 7 or 10 day round trip fort lauderdale type cruise people. Many are only on their first or second cruise. These folks are largely adventure travelers who are on the ship in order to see places, not the ship. In fact we just met the first couple that isn't continuing on the ship for the next 12 day cruise or even beyond. There are people who've been on the ship for 45 days already or wont be getting off until the ship comes back to Europe mid April.

People at our table are so well traveled that we kind of just sit there and listen. I knew we were in over our heads when the conversation turned to the 'last time we were in Antarctica'.

The second british comic, after the obligatory 'who's from the UK' routine and his lame version of the vacuum toilet joke, asked how many people had been to Dubai, pretty much every hand went up.

So 'hey have you ever been to Macinac Island, it's really nice' only goes so far.

On the other hand, no one comes close to the theocratic connections we've had. 'we met friends in Singapore, Ko Samui, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Okinawa' has prompted some curious questions from our travel mates.