My husband Irwin and I are avid cruisers. Since we retired in 1988 we have taken about two cruises a year. This article is about our cruises. I have not included the ships that are no longer afloat.

I started cruising as a child in the late thirties by going transAtlantic to Europe and returning the same way. No one flew back then. I continued the tradition by sailing to and from Hawaii, Japan, and the Caribbean.

When Irwin and I were married we sailed on the old Ocean Monarch to Nassau in the Bahamas, San Juan in PR, Havana in ... (more)