Travel and cruise industry news coming to you frombe for county in central virginia. Producer crystal duham tells the story of one man whose decision to resume his favorite form of travel was especially perilous. Amazon business your partner for smart business buying. Buy smarter, dream bigger.
Charles Falls Jr., known as Chillie, loves to take cruises. But Covid, as it has done for so many, left him marooned at home in Virginia.
As he told Cristal Duhaime, a producer at the Times podcast First Person, as soon as restrictions eased, he eagerly planned a return to the waves. But for Chillie, who suffers from prostate cancer, resuming his beloved travels — particularly aboard the cramped quarters of a cruise ship, most people’s idea of a pandemic nightmare — was especially perilous.
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