I absolutely love this comment and I find it true with my husband we are coming up on 24 years next month . We had to postpone our 25th anniversary cruise to Alaska cause our children keep having big life milestones ( younger daughter is getting married in October , both of our daughters graduating from college in 2025)
I love watching these and both of you. Learn a ton ! Some of the others on your cruise trying for sensationalism and making it sound like your trip is a nightmare. Thanks for being the voices of reason.
Wow, you are really becoming the celebrities of the cruise! Interviews galore. And well deserved as you speak so well and are so informative. RC should hire you after this as speakers in marketing. I too, would be mesmorised watching the shipping containers. Cant wait for the next Mike and Nancy installment ❤ your favourite Aussie follower 🦘 Ohh ps, I understand there was an Australia Day celebration onboard. Did you go have some vegemite or a snag? Ohh and Mike, please never stop the dad jokes.
Another fabulous vlog. Thank you for sharing Valparaiso with us. It was cool to see the "dance" of the shipping yard! Happiest belated birthday to Mike and have a fabulous time in Hawaii!!!
You two are adorable! Thanks for another great video! Love dad jokes, keep them coming. Love the color around the city, very creative and inspiring! Happy birthday 🎈🎉!
Thanks a ton! 🥰 Thank you so much for the super thanks. That was unexpected and very kind of you. Glad you're enjoying the videos! It's a real passion project for us. Have a wonderful day! 😃
Mike your Dad jokes are worse than my husband’s and that’s saying something! 😂 Happy belated birthday!!!! And like you, we found the shots of the port in action really interesting!
I think you're right almost cases to cheer on your own because we've been on so many tours that took us to stupid things that we didn't even care for. But in today's world there are so many unsafe places.
That town cute, the artwork was fantastic!!! You’re right, probably not a stop one would want to make more than once, since nothing much would probably change from year to year 🛳️
You guys are so right about tour guides. A great tour guide can be amazing, and a mediocre tour guide can feel like a waste of money. My mom and I took a full day tour of Rome, including the Vatican, and I felt, especially the second half of the day, all they were doing was trying to rush us through everything.I almost feel like I haven’t even been to the Vatican museums yet. Because they were pushing us to get through so fast.
Valparaiso is neat to see; however, it was our worst embarkation. We went up to Vina del Mar before our boarding time and could see our ship floating in the middle of the water. They were trying to tender the previous guests and luggage with flights off because there was a port worker strike and a container ship in our berth. Finally, it was moved, and we boarded about 5pm. We sailed away some time after we went to bed at 10:30pm.
Thank you for sharing. The town looks interesting as I enjoy art. Your videos are letting me live vicariously through your adventure as I recuperate from Achilles tendon rupture and surgery to fix it. Motivation to work hard So my husband and I can get back out there, my dr actually said it was good for me to have this motivation. Happy Birthday and Congrats on the Super Bowl win for your team. Bon Voyage!
Every new place I go, I want to take a tour. I even took my son on 3 tours when we did San Francisco. I had been there twice before, but the tours were excellent. I always learn something new and something I would not have gotten on my own. Like the colors of tiles in Lisbon Portugal actually have meaning. Our son lives in Seattle and we can watch the container ships come into port from his rooftop deck! Love to watch container ships. Grain ships are also interesting to watch being filled.
Can't ask for a better birthday. Those artists are definitely talented. Growing up in NY, we were surrounded by amazing graffiti whizzing by on the subway system.
Happy Birthday Mike 🎂 Now that's a special Birthday celebration Love that city mural art work. I would spend days just photographing the murals . Keep the vlogs coming. Really enjoying them
You two are so cute with your dad jokes. True love I see here. ❤ 😅 Anyway, Interesting video about Valpariso Chile. I loved the graffiti drawings and the walking tour. It would be a great exercise for me since I love to walk. Btw...have you seen and met my asian cruise friend Kathy yet? Lisa
She has Nancy. She told me she's seen you at 6:30 am in the dining room without Mike. Shes chinese, real short brown hair and shes very skinny and short. Let me know if you two meet or have met by now. Thanks. Lisa.
Another great adventure ! Happy belated Birthday Mike! A group of us are leaving tomorrow for a B2B2B on Symphonie, I cannot wait to share all your videos with our friends! 😊
You two are great. You are going to a lot of places we will be visiting, so we write down what you see and do, gives us ideas. We have important question. What Insurance company do you use for travel. We have been comparing prices and would like to know what maybe a reasonable price rate. Please help if possible.
I like your look back on if you would want to return to a port. I do the same thing when I cruise. Two things I want to know ~ how did you choose your excursions prior to sailing?
That’s a good question. We did a lot of research looking at both the Royal excursions as well as third-party excursions and we just chose what was of interest to us.
Great video (again) and hope you had a great birthday. I am also looking forward to some sea days again in the Vlog, because you are on the ship a lot longer than normal cruiser’s, you can probably point out things on the ship, short time cruisers maybe don’t notice !
The cruise I took down there left from Valparaiso & we had a night there before we sailed. I went to a winery & then went to a resort for lunch. I liked it but the graffiti was a lot.
I enjoyed your last video of artwork and also this one. My daughter lives in Santa Monica .. She is on some sort of committee in Santa Monica about preventing graffiti which is just horrendous there. I mentioned to her about maybe having murals allowed and The gang members wouldn’t tag the murals. She said they already tried that and the gang members just tagged right over them. If you want to be really shocked, google high-rise in LA with graffiti 20 story apartment building that was left unfinished totally covered in graffiti.
I’m enjoying your vlogs. I am wondering if, now after 50 days, you are happy about the items you brought, do you wish you had brought something you didn’t, and how is the organization of you cabin working for you.
Good questions. We are pretty happy with everything we brought. Nancy writing here and I wish I would have brought some more dress clothing for dinner in the evening. Mike ended up buying a second selfie stick so it would’ve been nice to have two of them. And we’re very happy with the organization we have in our cabin.
I have been enjoying your vlogs, thank you so much! I am interested in hearing about “life on the ship”, now that you’re getting close to two months of travel. Are you both homesick? Any regrets? Are you given surveys at the end of each port of call, where you can offer suggestions? Do you feel you can handle 7 more months? The realities of this kind of trip is what really interests me the most. What do you wish Royal included/did away with?
Great questions. I miss the grandbabies, but I’m not homesick and this is Nancy writing. No regrets. Yes we do get surveys after each mini leg. I think seven months are going to fly by quickly and we are looking forward to them. And truthfully, Royal has exceeded our expectations with everything.
What was the reason them taking you off the ship and bringing you back on or something? One way to travel that's really fun is getting a euro rail pass to the next ship stop If that would work
So I absolutely love your videos. I have a question. With streets like these what do the handicapped people like if you’re in a wheelchair. I mean the locals?
You know, that’s a great question, and it is actually something I thought about while we were on our tour. I don’t have a real good answer. Other than people who are handicapped must have someone drive them door-to-door, because some of these streets would be way too difficult for them to traverse.
I travel in a wheelchair so I always see the obstacles that most others don’t think about. I think seeing this video of yours really made me think about how the locals who are elderly or handicapped get around. Thank you for sharing your experiences I really enjoy watching
I don’t think we will. I don’t know who it was. I don’t know why it happened. We are just very sad that it did happen. We try to be extremely cautious. If we are talking about someone else as well.
Nancy, that’s true love when you still laugh at Mike’s jokes.
Yes, he’s my true love and my best friend.
I absolutely love this comment and I find it true with my husband we are coming up on 24 years next month . We had to postpone our 25th anniversary cruise to Alaska cause our children keep having big life milestones ( younger daughter is getting married in October , both of our daughters graduating from college in 2025)
You two crack me up. You’re so cute together. Love sharing this journey with you both 😊
Thank you!! 😊
I love watching these and both of you. Learn a ton ! Some of the others on your cruise trying for sensationalism and making it sound like your trip is a nightmare. Thanks for being the voices of reason.
We are trying our best. Really we’re having an absolutely fabulous time and consider being here a true blessing.
Wow, you are really becoming the celebrities of the cruise! Interviews galore. And well deserved as you speak so well and are so informative. RC should hire you after this as speakers in marketing.
I too, would be mesmorised watching the shipping containers.
Cant wait for the next Mike and Nancy installment
❤ your favourite Aussie follower 🦘
Ohh ps, I understand there was an Australia Day celebration onboard. Did you go have some vegemite or a snag?
Ohh and Mike, please never stop the dad jokes.
Thank you so much. There were a number of activities for the Australians and the pub was packed!
Another fabulous vlog. Thank you for sharing Valparaiso with us. It was cool to see the "dance" of the shipping yard! Happiest belated birthday to Mike and have a fabulous time in Hawaii!!!
Thanks so much. And watching all those cargo containers was almost mesmerizing.
Valparaiso would have killed my knees.I am one of those weird people who love watching the unloading of container trucks.Very relaxing.
You and me both. It was mesmerizing.
I hears that someone passed away on your cruise…so sad!! Love seeing all the art and painting on the building, so much talent there.
Sadly, you heard correctly. And we also love seeing all the artwork.
Thanks for sharing . I like to watch 2-3 videos in a row. The anticipation is real❤ Glad your having a good time .
Thanks for watching!
You two are adorable! Thanks for another great video! Love dad jokes, keep them coming. Love the color around the city, very creative and inspiring! Happy birthday 🎈🎉!
Thank you so much!
Happy birthday totally loving all your videos Enjoy love y’all 🎊🎉🎂🎈🎁 👍🏼👏🏼🙌🎼💃🏽🕺🏼🙏🏼🌹⭐️💫🍾🚢🛳️💙❤️🥰😎😍
Thanks so much
Ya'all are killing it !!! Great editing , cute dog house , Reuters, and sense of humor !! Happy Birthday 🎂 and many more ...
Thank you.
Lovely people. Enjoy yourselves!
Thank you so much.
You look like you are so much in love. You also look like you really are enjoying your cruise.
Thank you. And it’s Nancy here writing. I married my best friend.🥰
Mike really cracked himself up! 😂
Nancy here I jokingly say sometimes I live with a 12-year-old.😂
I am really enjoying your adventure and you 2! You are a joy to watch. 🌺
Aloha from Hawaii.
Thank you. And our cruise is in Hilo today. We had a great day in Hawaii so watch for that video coming up.😉
You both crack me up!
Happy Birthday Mike!🎂
Thank you so much!!!
Really love your vlogs, very great photography and info
Thanks a ton! 🥰 Thank you so much for the super thanks. That was unexpected and very kind of you. Glad you're enjoying the videos! It's a real passion project for us. Have a wonderful day! 😃
Happy Birthday 🎁. Go Shockers!
Thank you!
My husband works on container ships, he goes all over the world-
We loved that little snippet, from the container yard😊
Happy Birthday Mike🎉
What an incredible job, your husband has!
Mike your Dad jokes are worse than my husband’s and that’s saying something! 😂 Happy belated birthday!!!! And like you, we found the shots of the port in action really interesting!
Thanks so much!! We really really appreciate the super thanks. That is so kind of you. Thanks again!!!
Thank you for sharing with us
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the walking tour Seeing 15:35 painting Building was nice Happy Belated birthday
Thank you so much 🤗
Loved the dog house & the dog! ❤
I think you're right almost cases to cheer on your own because we've been on so many tours that took us to stupid things that we didn't even care for. But in today's world there are so many unsafe places.
Happy birthday Mike. I actually appreciate and love the graffiti. Thank you.
Thank you!
We went to Santiago for 3 nights, only reason to return to Valparaiso
That town cute, the artwork was fantastic!!! You’re right, probably not a stop one would want to make more than once, since nothing much would probably change from year to year 🛳️
I totally agree!
You guys are so right about tour guides. A great tour guide can be amazing, and a mediocre tour guide can feel like a waste of money. My mom and I took a full day tour of Rome, including the Vatican, and I felt, especially the second half of the day, all they were doing was trying to rush us through everything.I almost feel like I haven’t even been to the Vatican museums yet. Because they were pushing us to get through so fast.
Yes, that can be really unfortunate when you feel so rushed. Hopefully you can get back there and visit again.
Hope u had a great birthday!!! Thanks for the dad jokes
Thanks so much
Such a happy couple
Loved the video - looks like a fun city to visit.
It was!
What a way to spend your birthday. Happy Birthday Mike.🎉 Love the art.
Thanks so much
Happy Birthday Mike! 🎉 Thanks again for another great video
Thank you.
Thank you both SO MUCH for the look behind the scenes at this industrial port area! ❤
Our pleasure!
Have a good day.love your video❤
Thanks so much!
Valparaiso is neat to see; however, it was our worst embarkation. We went up to Vina del Mar before our boarding time and could see our ship floating in the middle of the water. They were trying to tender the previous guests and luggage with flights off because there was a port worker strike and a container ship in our berth. Finally, it was moved, and we boarded about 5pm. We sailed away some time after we went to bed at 10:30pm.
Yeah we've had some crazy ports as well where it doesn't always go to plan but that's where we just say go with the flow. 😃
Happy Birthday Mike…keep the dad jokes coming! LOL
Thank you.
We loved watching the cargo in the Civitavecchia (Rome)…it is pure choreography. Watching truck after truck pulling up for their load…
It’s almost mesmerizing.
Happy Belated Birthday Mike. Thanks again for another awesome tour. Definitely some talented artists there. 💙💜
Thank you so much.
Lastly, could you share a bit more about the cost of each trip? Like ~ we bought # cups of coffee, took a taxi and cost of excursions was $ xx.
To be honest, we don’t track it that closely. We budgeted about $20,000 for excursions and have spent very little when we actually go into port.
I agree on the fascination with container ports. I think I spent an hour or more just watching the action at the Cartegena port.
They’re mesmerizing aren’t they.
Thanks for sharing this trip for us! Happy Birthday Mike!
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing. The town looks interesting as I enjoy art. Your videos are letting me live vicariously through your adventure as I recuperate from Achilles tendon rupture and surgery to fix it. Motivation to work hard So my husband and I can get back out there, my dr actually said it was good for me to have this motivation. Happy Birthday and Congrats on the Super Bowl win for your team. Bon Voyage!
Thanks so much!
You guys are fun! Beautiful sights!
Thanks so much
Belated happy birthday Mike from Scotland. Really enjoying all the videos! 😊
Thanks so much!
Every new place I go, I want to take a tour. I even took my son on 3 tours when we did San Francisco. I had been there twice before, but the tours were excellent. I always learn something new and something I would not have gotten on my own. Like the colors of tiles in Lisbon Portugal actually have meaning. Our son lives in Seattle and we can watch the container ships come into port from his rooftop deck! Love to watch container ships. Grain ships are also interesting to watch being filled.
Yes. Watching the ships was almost mesmerizing. Thanks for watching.
Can't ask for a better birthday.
Those artists are definitely talented.
Growing up in NY, we were surrounded by amazing graffiti whizzing by on the subway system.
Thank you.
Happy belated birthday, Mike! I like a good dad joke. 😅 Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much. Be careful about asking for more of those dad jokes. 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂@@livingphase2
Happy Birthday Mike 🎂
Now that's a special Birthday celebration
Love that city mural art work. I would spend days just photographing the murals . Keep the vlogs coming. Really enjoying them
Thank you so much.
You two are so cute with your dad jokes. True love I see here. ❤ 😅 Anyway, Interesting video about Valpariso Chile. I loved the graffiti drawings and the walking tour. It would be a great exercise for me since I love to walk. Btw...have you seen and met my asian cruise friend Kathy yet?
Lisa
We’ve met so many people, and I have met several Kathy’s. I’m not sure if it’s your friend or not. Please have her reach out and say hello to us.😀
She has Nancy. She told me she's seen you at 6:30 am in the dining room without Mike. Shes chinese, real short brown hair and shes very skinny and short. Let me know if you two meet or have met by now. Thanks.
Lisa.
Congratulations on the interview - your style and content is so enjoyable.
Thanks so much!
Thank you for sharing ❤
Another great adventure ! Happy belated Birthday Mike! A group of us are leaving tomorrow for a B2B2B on Symphonie, I cannot wait to share all your videos with our friends! 😊
Thank you. And enjoy your cruise! Have a great time.
Happy Belated Birthday Mike.
Thank you.
Thank you for the video, I look forward to them and the shorts.
Glad you like them!
Happy Birthday 🎂
Thank you.
You two are great. You are going to a lot of places we will be visiting, so we write down what you see and do, gives us ideas. We have important question. What Insurance company do you use for travel. We have been comparing prices and would like to know what maybe a reasonable price rate. Please help if possible.
We use travel guard, but you really do need to do your research so you get insurance that meets your specific needs.
@@livingphase2 Thank you
Lots of Fun Enjoy and Stay Safe All Ways All
Thank you!
I love your videos and shorts. I like short city type tours through cruise for 1st time in city. And like you next do something different.
Thank you for your suggestion.
Happy Birthday Mike🎉🎉🎉
Thank you!
It's interesting. I was not in Chile 😊
50 days already! Whaaat? That went fast!
We agree. The days are flying by all too quickly.
If you have to cross a country without the ship think about eurorail. If you have a pass you can just get off and on anywhere you want.
Yes. The euro rail is a wonderful way to travel.
Touring. I look at these things. When deciding on tour ing 1)safety of city -2)distance from port- cultural aspects
Yes. I agree wholeheartedly. Those are things to consider.
Hi, love your videos. Aren’t you on day 68 of the cruise? Almost at Hawaii?
Yes we are
I like your look back on if you would want to return to a port. I do the same thing when I cruise. Two things I want to know ~ how did you choose your excursions prior to sailing?
That’s a good question. We did a lot of research looking at both the Royal excursions as well as third-party excursions and we just chose what was of interest to us.
Happy birthday 🎉
Thank you!
Great video (again) and hope you had a great birthday. I am also looking forward to some sea days again in the Vlog, because you are on the ship a lot longer than normal cruiser’s, you can probably point out things on the ship, short time cruisers maybe don’t notice !
Thank you. We’ll try to watch for things that we might notice that a seven day cruiser doesn’t necessarily think of.
We just love watching your videos, we are from New Zealand, and I see you are coming here , When are you due here, and what have you got planned to do
We are going to hobbit town while we are there.
That is like 30mins away from our home , there is a Cafe on site we should try and catch up for a coffee
Thank you for continuing to share the journey, my only request is to increase the joke limit we have for Mike!
Or at least make them all different jokes!😂
Noted!
Hello! You have wonderful journey 😊
Thank you! 😊
The cruise I took down there left from Valparaiso & we had a night there before we sailed. I went to a winery & then went to a resort for lunch. I liked it but the graffiti was a lot.
Yes, it is a lot. So we just appreciate it for its own unique beauty.
I enjoyed your last video of artwork and also this one. My daughter lives in Santa Monica .. She is on some sort of committee in Santa Monica about preventing graffiti which is just horrendous there. I mentioned to her about maybe having murals allowed and The gang members wouldn’t tag the murals. She said they already tried that and the gang members just tagged right over them. If you want to be really shocked, google high-rise in LA with graffiti 20 story apartment building that was left unfinished totally covered in graffiti.
Oh gosh. That is crazy. It’s too bad.
You could see where graffiti vandals painted over the murals in Valparaiso, too.
I’m enjoying your vlogs. I am wondering if, now after 50 days, you are happy about the items you brought, do you wish you had brought something you didn’t, and how is the organization of you cabin working for you.
Good questions. We are pretty happy with everything we brought. Nancy writing here and I wish I would have brought some more dress clothing for dinner in the evening. Mike ended up buying a second selfie stick so it would’ve been nice to have two of them. And we’re very happy with the organization we have in our cabin.
@@livingphase2 thank you. Good to know. I look forward to watching your future adventures.
I have been enjoying your vlogs, thank you so much! I am interested in hearing about “life on the ship”, now that you’re getting close to two months of travel. Are you both homesick? Any regrets? Are you given surveys at the end of each port of call, where you can offer suggestions? Do you feel you can handle 7 more months? The realities of this kind of trip is what
really interests me the most. What do you wish Royal included/did away with?
Great questions. I miss the grandbabies, but I’m not homesick and this is Nancy writing. No regrets. Yes we do get surveys after each mini leg. I think seven months are going to fly by quickly and we are looking forward to them. And truthfully, Royal has exceeded our expectations with everything.
So happy to hear this! always look forward to the next video!
We’re doing a drinking game. Everytime Mike says umhum, we do a shot of Jameson…… We’re get tore up drunk on every vlog. 😂
😂😂😂
Let the "dad" jokes flow, good work guys
Thanks so much!
What was the reason them taking you off the ship and bringing you back on or something? One way to travel that's really fun is getting a euro rail pass to the next ship stop If that would work
Agree. We have traveled by Eurailpass before and it's wonderful. Especially in Europe trains are a great way to get around
Were there beans in Chile? #needmoredadjokes
We love this!😁😁😁
So I absolutely love your videos. I have a question. With streets like these what do the handicapped people like if you’re in a wheelchair. I mean the locals?
You know, that’s a great question, and it is actually something I thought about while we were on our tour. I don’t have a real good answer. Other than people who are handicapped must have someone drive them door-to-door, because some of these streets would be way too difficult for them to traverse.
I travel in a wheelchair so I always see the obstacles that most others don’t think about. I think seeing this video of yours really made me think about how the locals who are elderly or handicapped get around. Thank you for sharing your experiences I really enjoy watching
Did the wildfires affect plans and tours.
The wildfires happened after we were there. That was unfortunate for us to hear about them.
Has the cruise line made a decision yet as to what's going to happen about your Red Sea transit?
We are going around Africa, but the final itinerary has not been solidified.
Which excursions were included with your World cruise ~ I know you said Christ the Redeemer.
There were seven world wonders, and for what they called escape excursions for the full world cruisers.
Can anyone paint or there are rules and regulations?
Yes, the cities do have rules or regulations. It is local artists who do the painting in most cities.
I wish our country would embrace color like others do!Yes i agree about the tour guides. The worst i ever had was on Oahu........terrible!
And unfortunately, it can just be hit and miss with the tour guides.
Curious if you're going to talk about the first death that happened on the ship this past week, in a future video.
I don’t think we will. I don’t know who it was. I don’t know why it happened. We are just very sad that it did happen. We try to be extremely cautious. If we are talking about someone else as well.
💕 say particular funicular 5 times real fast 🤣😂🤣😂🤪💕
😂😂😂
I know better! You’re not sorry about the dad jokes at all! My husband is the same way! 🙄😂
😂
Happy Birthday Mike 🎉
Thank you.