Wanna get away?

Record snow year in Durango

The answer to the title question is a resounding, "Yes!"  It's been a hard winter and, as glad as we are to have the moisture after a drought year in 2018, the snow is quite literally over my head. 
That's what vacation is all about...getting away from chores and freeing up your mind to ponder on the greater issues of life.  Cruising is the ideal way to do that.  Get up to breakfast at your door, explore foreign ports and come back to a room where the bed is made, dinner is on the table, and post-dinner entertainment awaits you.  Then there are long, blissfully uneventful days on the ship where your mind is free to chase the following sea. Yes, I wanna get away!

We're going to a totally different part of the world on this voyage -- 15 days Hong Kong to Shanghai aboard the Oceania Nautica.  This will be a working voyage.  Dwight and I will be hosts to 41 Virtuoso Voyagers, clients of Virtuoso-affiliated travel agents.  We'll be responsible for arranging a welcome reception and a private shore excursion in Hiroshima, Japan.  One of the nicest things about cruising is not just seeing new places, it's making new friends.  There are always interesting people aboard and ashore with whom to share new experiences and to introduce you to new points of view.  Mark Twain truly got it right when he said, "Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”  I love my corner of the earth, but right now I wanna get away!