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Front-Ranger:
I especially loved the part about "While we were sleeping..."  :D

Sheriff Roland:
Just want to echo (somewhat) what Meryl said - Thanks for giving us your thoughts as well as your account of your day by day experience on board a (gay) cruise. Glad to have been able to live, vicariously, your trip.

David:
WOW!   Great report!

Now i really want to go on a cruise!

D-i-H~

Impish:
Got the pic up: thanks David!  I'll next try to add some pics from the DVD, if I can figure out how to capture the images.

A couple of notes for those of you considering a gay cruise, as I hope you will:  the organizing company, Travelpride, did an absolutely top-notch job, and I can't praise them enough.  There are many businesses that organize gay cruises, and I'm sure there are some that are as good, but I want to warn you, some are really bad.

Some of them get you on board and then leave it to the cruise line to handle everything from there on in.  Travelpride brings its own crew on board, throws theme parties, decorates the ship, and books the entertainment.  Remember how much the Captain loved our group, and did special things for us?  That was because of Travelpride. Here's their homepage:  http://www.travelpride.com/published/index.html

There's another company with a specially bad rep: they claim it will be an all-gay cruise, then if they don't sell out, book  straight people on it, who get a discount. Neither group is informed about the other until they get on board.  This sets up enmity between them, as the straight people are certain to include some homophobes, and gay people feel like they're being asked to go back in the closet for the duration of the cruise.  This company has done this more than once, as I heard from several of my fellow passengers.  I'm not sure what legal risk I'd be taking by posting the name of the company here, so I won't.  If you are seriously looking for a gay cruise, PM me and I'll tell you which one to avoid.

But I really do encourage everyone to consider a cruise --gay or straight -- for a future vacation.  They're not right for everybody, but there are people that would love it but will never  go because they  tell themselves it's impossible for them.  It's not.  If you want to do it, set a goal and start working toward it.  You won't regret it, I promise.  (I'm talkin' to you Dellaluvia!)

Travelpride is doing a cruise of the Mexican Riviera this coming February, and it's on a similar Windstar ship.....

Impish:
I added some pics in the posts themselves, so you'll have to go back to page 1 to see them.

Have to run now, but will add more later today.  By request, here's two pics of the Buff Twins.

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