Anchors Away! Next Stop - Everywhere!
In 2004, when we started travelling fulltime in a motorhome, I wrote an article about "slowing down" and enjoying life. Now that we're cruising fulltime, this philosophy is being applied every day to the maximum. Not only as a philosophy, but also literally! The ship usually cruises at less than 10 knots. This is less than 12mph. I look out over the ocean and can spen...
The sailing to New Zealand from Australia went smoothly. However, we quickly got our indoctrination into this groundbreaking method of cruising. The Villa Vie Odyssey is a "proof of concept" for the idea of living fulltime on a cruise ship, sailing around the world. The Odyssey has only been sailing as a "residential" ship for 15 months. This is her first trip around the world and new lessons...
It was a long flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia. We time traveled to the future, as we left late at night on Feb. 17th, flew for 15 hours, but arrived the morning of Feb. 19th! Since we arrived in the morning, we were concerned about what to do with our 6 cases of luggage! We didn't think the hotel would let us check-in this early, so we hoped they had a place to store ou...
With about 6-weeks left until we embark on our new adventure, we're trying to take care of last issues, and thinking of what we're forgetting. Cruising fulltime on the Villa Vie Odyssey brings up several logistical challenges. Luckily, many other people have been on the Odyssey for over a year, and Villa Vie Residences has figured out how to handle some of these ...
New Villa Vie Odyssey 5-Year Purchase Plan We bought a "Porthole Cabin" on the Villa Vie Odyssey. After we're onboard and see our cabin and if we don't like the porthole cabin, we have the option to upgrade to a full window cabin for a little more cost. Our purchase of the cabin is for 15+ years, or the life of the ship. However, Villa Vie recently came out with a new 5-year purchas...
As our date to move onto the Villa Vie Odyssey for our world cruise approaches, we've been taking care of last-minute details. Keeping our priorities straight, we went on a Mediterranean cruise! We had this 21-day Princess cruise planned almost a year ago. When we decided to start cruising fulltime, we canceled many of our future travel plans, but not this cruise. Originally, we planned ...
What Residential Cruising Is Residential cruising is making a cruise ship your permanent or long-term home as you travel the world. Unlike a standard vacation, this lifestyle is built around living at sea in a residential unit, with the ship stopping in new ports for several days at a time. For travelers who want to see the world without uprooting their lives for each new destination, it offe...
Whenever we mention to someone about our plans to cruise fulltime, the question of ownership or renting a cabin on the ship comes up. Villa Vie Residences has changed their ownership and rental plans a bit over the past year. The prices have also slightly risen in the past 12 months since they started sailing. We purchased our deck 3 porthole cabin while there was a sale, ...
Well.... now I've done it. We cancelled many of our planned upcoming trips. The RV trip to Quartzsite in January, the rental RV trip in Spain this coming September, the Dominican Republic resort trip in May, and our RV trip on the Natchez Trace Trail next September all got chopped. However, we're still taking our Mediterranean cruise in October. This all started when our longti...
The problem with not traveling full-time is that I'm always thinking of the "next" adventure. Connie and I have already made travel plans for the next two years. This gives us something to look forward to and plan for. A several weeks ago, while I was watching some YouTube videos on cruising, Connie got online and booked us a 4-day local cruise. We had the time for a short trip, and...
