Susan and I had an amazing cruise to Alaska scheduled for for our 25th wedding anniversary in August of 2020… which happened to fall in the middle of a global pandemic. That cruise was cancelled, and some of those funds were used to reschedule a new cruise in the winter of 2021. Surely COVID would be gone by then, right? Right? Two weeks before the start of our cruise, the “Omicron” variant of COVID-19 exploded, and the day before our cruise was set to sail — literally as we were in the car, halfway to New Orleans — we received… (read more)