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Back in the Saddle Again!

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Cruise Sunset

Sailing into the sunset off the coast of Imperial Beach

Yeah!  I’m doing my Doc Dance!

Younger cruisers will say – Hey What?   What’s a Doc Dance?

Doing a Doc Dance was one of the precruise traditions that fell by the wayside once all your cruise documentation was available online.   “Back in the day” the cruise line mailed your boarding passes, luggage tags, excursion information and more in big thick envelopes.   After you received your ”Docs” your cruise went from a dream to reality as you were able to scan all the wonderful excursions and other highlights of your upcoming cruise.  In the preinternet days, you couldn’t easily find out what excursions were available till you received your Docs!  Even then you couldn’t easily book in advance and often you headed down to the theatre for a mass shore excursion booking party on the first day.

Sadly, the old Doc Dance has been replaced by the new Negative COVID Dance!   These days you must get a COVID test right before sailing and when you get the email or text with the big print – NEGATIVE – well I can’t blame anyone if you jump out of their chair and do a little Happy Dance!

COVID Results
COVID Results

 

 

But – NOT SO FAST – Since we are heading to Hawaii – we must run the COVID gauntlet one more time at the cruise terminal before we board.   If we pop positive, then it’s go back home and start thinking about how you can use all your FCC.

I am writing this at 1 PM and we leave for the cruise terminal in 90 minutes.   Hoping for another negative test – otherwise

do not pass go do not collect 200
do not pass go do not collect 200

Here is what we have to look forward to:

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HAL Cruise Map
This entry was posted in 2022 South Pacific Cruise, California, North America, San Diego, USA

One thought on “Back in the Saddle Again!

  • The Inside Cabin March 2, 2022 at 9:16 am Reply

    We passed our third COVID test yesterday while enroute to Hawaii. I hope this is the last one.

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