🛳️ What if a cruise was more than a vacation?
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Hi from Anthony and Jodie! We are the Learners and Makers. Traveling the world full time since 2022, we empower families and people with mobility disabilities to travel confidently, their way. Right about this time, two years ago in 2024, we were in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Fortunately, we weren't treading water. We were on a cruise ship. But that cruise wasn't some round-trip loop-da-loop like you often get for, say, a trip to Alaska, or around the Caribbean. Instead, we'd flown into Seattle, boarded the Royal Caribbean Quantum of the Seas, and spent 15 nights sailing across the Pacific to Yokohama, Japan, just outside of Tokyo. And right now, this year, likely as you are reading this, we’re doing it again. (Except this time the ship left from Los Angeles instead of Seattle, and we’re sailing on the Navigator of the Seas). A big motivator for us? Not only do we get to sail to Japan… and be back in Japan, where our lovely wee Osaka condo awaits. We’re cruising with a bunch of other worldschooling families, who we haven’t met before, but share interests in worldschooling and travel. The kids will have opportunities to hang with peers. We all get to unplug. And Jodie and I can meet some like-minded adults. Plus, in case I haven’t mentioned it enough, we go back to Japan. Where we get to enjoy fall, our favorite season for being in Japan. We get asked, though, why in the world a family of introverts is so into this sort of cruise. It’s an understandable question, since cruises usually get marketed as highly social party boats. So let’s talk about why we love this style of travel—and transportation—so much, even as a family of introverts: It's all about how we can be as social as we want, as keeping-to-ourselves as we want, and instead of taking the cruise round-trip, we go one-way. So the cruise isn't just the trip or the vacation, but transportation... ​Repositioning cruises for families​One-way cruising turns transportation into a vacation experience of a lifetime for families
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