I have been just about everywhere that you can go in the caribbean, from the bahamas to all the mexico east coast ports. There's always a new person to meet, something different on every poor. Sitting in a hot tub with a priest. We talked about religion and we talked about word tat. Art galleries, there's an art gallery on almost every ship. Theyave value. Are nit semptons ot the new rotter del? My last cruising was sadesides. I was on the cider dam and then the carnival sunrise. Got home on the second of march. And then everything shut down in the crews industry because of the panademic
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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