2007 World Cruise
The 2007 world Cruise has begun, so I have created a new blog at called 2007 World Cruise
The first post is 2007 World Cruise: Fwd: (no subject)
On 12/27/05 my father and mother (Sherman and Roberta Rootberg) embarked on a world Cruise aboard the Radisson Seven Seas Voyager, which lasts until 4/28/06. During the first week my dad wrote a few emails describing his experiences. I decided to document these and future emails in this blog on his behalf.
The 2007 world Cruise has begun, so I have created a new blog at called 2007 World Cruise
Last sea day. Last day. There were a lot of goodbyes today. There is a benevolent fund for the employees. Passengers had donated $10,000 into it since Egypt. Today there was a white elephant sale. Any junk passengers no longer wanted or could not fit into luggage was donated. Then it was sold to others. One woman paid $1,200 for a T shirt. When it was over there was almost $10,000 more. With these donations they had bought TVs and DVDs for all the crew’s cabins. It has paid for their emergencies and emergency trips home.
Hamilton, Bermuda, our last port. Today we had a Virtuoso Voyager Club event. The ship had a very long channel to get to the port. At about 9:30 AM we went down to the dock and met our driver guide and got in our VW mini van. I don’t think we get this model in the states but it was about the size of a US mini van and it had comfortable seating for seven. Real American size seats. There were supposed to be six passengers per van so we took another couple with us. They were from California and quite friendly.
Sea day. The fifth and last before Bermuda. All night long we had gone slightly south of the best course to Bermuda. That was so we could meet the Regent Navigator at sea on her way from FL to Madeira. At about 10:15 AM we did meet her.
Sea day #4 to Bermuda. The ocean is rough again today. We had a bunch of good lectures today. There was one on the Bermuda triangle. I have been following this subject for many years and I can tell you, this guy knew less then nothing. It was like he put this subject in to sell himself onto the ship. He said he had never even been in the Bermuda triangle. His big claim to fame was that he helped develop Bold and something else for Proctor and Gamble before he retired and did lousy speaking. All he had was a list of some ships that went down under mysterious circumstances. He never even read any of the good books on the subject. However: There may be something to this Bermuda Triangle stuff. Cousteau is getting off in Bermuda so he will not have to go through the Triangle.
Sea day. Two more to go until Bermuda. The sea has been rough all day but has started to let up a little this evening. The bridge said we were having waves averaging 18 to 23 feet.