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ProudMNDemocrat

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Tue May 22, 2018, 02:02 PM May 2018

Australia....FINALLY getting there this Fall.... [View all]



My dear husband on Sunday went on VacationsToGo.com and booked us passage on a Royal Caribbean liner to Australia, leaving Seattle in early October. Ports along the route...Maui, Oahu, Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, and then Australia in Sydney Harbor. Cost for this cruise, including taxes, Travel insurance, and airfare to Seattle from Minneapolis...less than $2,000 per person. Some things will be extra and we are prepared for that. Just getting to Australia is a vacation in and of itself.

While in Australia, we will be doing the stuff we had planned to do last October had we been able to get there flying Space Available on Military Cargo planes. Hubby is retired Military and flying FREE around the world is one of his benefits. We will be doing Airbandb for lodging. Then fly home Military. Getting back before Thanksgiving.

Needless to say, I am stoked to be taking a 3 week sail across the Pacific Ocean, doing things I have only dreamed of doing. While we have our wits and health, we are telling our adult children...We are spending your inheritance. They are okay with that. Hubby has been a keen investor for over 35 years. We have come to the part where we need to spend some of it.
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YAY! So happy for you. MontanaMama May 2018 #1
Fantastic! dhill926 May 2018 #2
Wow that isn't much more than air fare! Kali May 2018 #3
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