Tour Day 103, Cruise Day 1 – I boarded ms Westerdam in Singapore for the 28-Day Far East Discovery & China Explorer Collector cruise to Yokohama (Tokyo), Japan without any glitches and found my home for the next six weeks to be totally satisfactory. At 4:30 PM, there was the standard Sailaway Celebration that happens at the beginning of every cruise and then the standard Welcome Aboard Steak Dinner. I attended the Singles and Solo Travelers Meetup, met two ladies I had not met before and, yes, Martha. Martha and I met at the singles get together aboard ms Noordam between San Diego, California, USA and Auckland, New Zealand in late fall 2023. The singles get together on that cruise was massive by comparative standards. There were 10-12 regular attendees. During our travel–dominated conversations, Martha and
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