Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, your week of look at the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode of our 4159.

On this week's episode, I'm wrapping up our Alaska Cruise Review with, of course, a talk about what happened when I got COVID on my cruise.

Here we go.

So if you've watched our YouTube channel or read blog posts on realcoming blog.com, I've talked about it. We go.

So if you watched our YouTube channel or read blog posts on realcoming blog.com, I've talked about the fact that I did get COVID-19 while on my cruise.

And I wanted to talk about it a little more in depth, not in the sense of just recapping

what I've done in the article before.

Certainly, actually in our show notes on realcoming blognblog.com for this episode, I've got

a link back to the article that I wrote about what happened when I tested positive for COVID

on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.

And you can read through that.

In fact, I might even say that you should pause this episode and read that article because

I basically go through the timeline of what happened and what I experienced. And, you know, it was something

that, you know, I read about this in the article and I do believe this, you know, every cruise I've

taken since cruising restarted in 2021, you know, we've gone on board, and I say we, my family,

have gone on board knowing that one of us or all of us could end up with COVID-19 at some point

or another. Certainly it's a risk that's out there. And I am certainly of the opinion, still am, that you just can't live your life in the fear

of what ifs, right? There's many things that could go wrong in life that you just can't, you can't

control, but you also can't live your life and fear out of. And certainly I feel confident that, you know, with the fact

that I'm vaccinated, that I'm not going to die from COVID more than likely, and that, you know,

I'm going to be, it's going to be a problem that can be handled, certainly. Now, in the grand

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