Comparison. It’s natural when you have been around the
block before, even a block as incredible and as vastly blue as this one. As
much as I try to eradicate, “Well on my last voyage…” from my vocabulary, I
find it creeping into my thought process every so often. Repeat voyagers all
say the same thing: You have to treat each voyage as its own experience.
Comparing them will get you nowhere. Turns out, this is great advice. Even on
the same ship with a handful of familiar faces, I owe it to this experience to
let it stand alone and not to ride on the coat tails of its predecessor, summer
2010.
I don’t want to make it seem like I’m not grateful
because I am. I’m extremely grateful for this opportunity and the people I’ve
met and the places I’ve yet to see. Although it has been a bit more
logistically challenging (having folks bend over backwards to help you uproot
your life in Alaska and spend the next three months on a ship with 6 weeks
notice did have its perks), but I think at the end of the day, the logistical
challenges and empty wallet will be well worth it.
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