00:00 So we're pulling into Rio de Janeiro.
00:04 That is Sugarloaf.
00:07 Here is Christ the Redeemer.
00:10 It's a cloudy day.
00:13 It's about 74 degrees.
00:16 Woo!
00:17 It's like starting to get steady.
00:20 I'm Mike and this is Nancy.
00:22 I'm 56.
00:24 And I'm 59.
00:25 We're married.
00:26 We're empty nesters.
00:27 In kind of the second phase of life, our children are grown and out of the house.
00:33 And we're on a nine month world cruise with Royal Caribbean.
00:37 We're going to see 164 different ports, 64 countries, over 274 days.
00:44 And we're taking the adventure of a lifetime.
00:46 Yes.
00:47 Life is short and we love to travel.
00:50 So this cruise was visiting many of the destinations that we've always wanted to see.
00:55 And we call it the sampler platter because we're getting a little taste of so many different countries.
01:02 And it's going to give us the opportunity to decide which ones we want to go back to.
01:07 I would say our favorites so far have been Curacao, Grenada, Iguazu Falls in Argentina, certainly.
01:17 And probably other parts of Argentina such as Puerto Madryn.
01:25 Yeah, have been wonderful.
01:27 I am really looking forward to the Asian countries.
01:30 I think it's going to be so...
01:32 I've never been there.
01:33 And I think it'll be so different from the life that I experienced in the United States.
01:39 So I'm really looking forward to seeing all of that and getting kind of immersed a little bit in their culture.
01:45 Right. And for me, it's probably Australia.
01:48 It's about as far away from the U.S. as you can get.
01:50 I'm an avid scuba diver.
01:52 And so I look forward to diving the Great Barrier Reef and climbing the Sydney Bridge.
01:57 So we have our health.
01:59 We love being active, hiking, doing all those things.
02:02 And we know that's not going to last forever.
02:04 And, you know, waiting and waiting until later is just really not an option.
02:11 We want to go and experience these things when we can truly and deeply enjoy them and be immersed in them.
02:18 So, yeah, that's why it's so important to us right now.
02:20 You know, we're in this perfect spot where our children have left the nest.
02:24 The grandchildren are just barely coming.
02:27 They're very young.
02:28 We have our health.
02:29 And we have our health and our families supportive.
02:32 So there is really no better time.
02:35 (upbeat music)
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