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There are different types of cruises. Booze cruises are the ones everyone is most familiar with, last a week or less, and are not well remembered by those who were on them because, well, there was drinking. Then there are other one week cruises to Alaska, through the Caribbean, up the Rhine, that kind of thing. The Fletcher family did one to Alaska in 2011 for my parents' 80th birthdays and 60th anniversary. It's a great way to spend time together as a family - nobody cooks, cleans, shops, makes beds, everyone gets their own room, you can spend time together and apart, and for old folks especially, it's just great. Then there are the longer cruises, the ones that most regular folks are unaware of. The one I just ended was a 73-day circumnavigation of South America, Fort Lauderdale to Fort Lauderdale, with over 30 ports. In October, I was on a 74-day circumnavigation of Africa, again Fort Lauderdale to Fort Lauderdale, through the Straits of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal all