{"id":2330,"date":"2014-06-20T00:46:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T00:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2014-06-20T00:46:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T00:46:45","slug":"hail-and-farewell-leaving-camp-seabourn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/hail-and-farewell-leaving-camp-seabourn\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail and Farewell: Leaving Camp Seabourn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"crew<\/a> They all marched down the center aisle of the salon to echoes of\u00a0No Day but Today<\/a>, the lovely song from Rent\u00a0. They’re all young, and from more than 30 countries: engineers and stewards, restaurant staff and destination coordinators, Captain and cruise director, performers and crew.<\/p>\n

It was the last night of the trip and we’d just left Petersburg,<\/a> one of the world’s loveliest cities.<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/a> \"Inside<\/a> \"Catherine<\/a>The drama of its grim history, combined with its beauty, left all of us with full hearts. \u00a0The emotion and the fact that in the morning our floating dormitory would deposit us and all our worldly goods in Stockholm and end the magic journey left us vulnerable. \u00a0Watching these young people, who had been so deeply involved in our lives, slammed us up and over the top, leaving nearly 300 of us moved and weepy.<\/p>\n

For a bunch of worldly travelers, who’ among us had been everywhere from Antarctica to Burma to Saigon, we were pretty sappy. \u00a0The staff would welcome new cruisers hours after we left, but this\u00a0artful end to a perfect trip, so much like the last day of camp, really, was sentimental and perfect.<\/p>\n

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They all marched down the center aisle of the salon to echoes of\u00a0No Day but Today, the lovely song from Rent\u00a0. They’re all young, and from more than 30 countries: engineers and stewards, restaurant staff and destination coordinators, Captain and cruise director, performers and crew. It was the last night of the trip and we’d … Continue reading Hail and Farewell: Leaving Camp Seabourn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,7,78],"tags":[2615,2699,2621,2640,2619,3419],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life","category-travel","tag-cruise","tag-happy-ending","tag-seabourn","tag-seabourn-cruise","tag-seabourn-quest","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-BA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4595,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/4595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}