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John just returned from a 10-night cruise aboard the Cunard's Queen Elizabeth from, I guess it left from Vancouver, went up to Southeast Alaska and back, and he joins us on the line to talk all about it. How you doing, bud? Well, Doug. How are you? Good, good. So you're up in the New York area, and you made your way over to Vancouver, rather, for this sailing, then up to Alaska.

But before we get to the Queen Elizabeth itself, which I'm super stoked to talk about,

let's take a step back. Like, give me some pre-cruised thoughts. What made you want to sail this

10-nighter in Southeast Alaska on Cunard? Because that's a cruise line that doesn't really

sail, not really known for sailing the

Alaska region I'd say well this was really a bucket list item for my partner I had

actually cruised to Alaska back in 2022 with Royal Caribbean on the ovation of the seas

this was my seventh crew overall I cruise with Disney celebrity Royal Norwegian

course QNard and Princess.

So when we were deciding what we would do for our summer vacation, we came across a very

appealing 10-night itinerary on the Queen Elizabeth.

And since we're both teachers with two months off in the summer, we thought,

why not tack on a few extra days in Vancouver and just make a whole, a two-week thing of it. Don't take this next question the wrong way, please. So you sound like a younger guy. And the times I've been on Kynard, it's definitely an older demographic because of the nature of the voyages and such. What does it draw for you? Good question. I'm a shipbook. I have been since childhood. My father was in the Navy. I grew up

fishing with my dad and, you know, just being around water and boats and kind of just fired my

imagination. I was at a Titanic a lot when I was, you know, a young kid. And that's how I, you know,

found out about the Q&R line. And, you know, it was just always sort of like drawn to that. I liked the tradition, like the Britishness and the heritage. So that was really kind of the main draw for me. So you make your way from New York over to Vancouver. You mentioned you've done a little pre-cruise, post-cruise time over there. What kind of sights did you see in Vancouver before your cruise? I love Vancouver and I had actually

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