Originally Posted by
wrp96
On my first transatlantic sailing, which was structured to only ever have 2 sea days in a row but due to a missed port ended up with 4, as we watched people kiss the ground as they disembarked after that 4th sea day, my sailing mate admitted that it was too much for her too. It wasn't the motion of the ocean (which wasn't bad - we missed the port so we could avoid the bad seas), but rather the fact that after a certain amount of days she got anxious as she wasn't used to so many days in a row of doing relatively nothing. And it wasn't just the sea days - after a certain amount of time she was just ready to be back in the real world. Funnily enough, now that she's retired, her attitude is completely changed and now it's the longer the better.
While we'll still have to overcome the house and pets hurdle longer cruises would and will be more attractive once Mrs K retires. She only gets so many vacation days and the demands of her job just won't allow longer trips. That's not to say if we get to the point where time off or away from work isn't an issue that we'll be interested in a lot of sea days though. We're still destination cruisers and look at cruising as a way to at least sample different parts of the world.