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My last post from the cruise. I’m sitting on my Freedom Day! Mary’s 10-day isolation is over.
balcony waiting for my number to be called for And she has tested negative twice in the last
disembarking this star-crossed ship. It’s a happy three days. We’re packing up and heading to
day. Kind of like owning a boat. The happiest Plymouth, Mass., and fly home to San Diego
days are when you buy it and sell it. Although it Thursday. As happy as we are now, we sympa-
was gray skies sailing into Montreal the sun has thize with friends and fellow passengers still
been peeking through and it was almost warm. facing days of isolation in another Montreal ho-
A good sign I hope for the rest of our adventure. tel. Passengers who tested Covid positive filled
Mary’s waiting to be freed from captivity in three minibusses as we disembarked. At the ho-
526. When they call our number we will both tel Regent booked for them, they weren’t given
make our way to the gangway and the terminal room keys, reinforcing their lockdown. Nor can
and see each other for the first time in nearly they open windows for a breath of fresh air. “It’s
two weeks — and on to our hotel. Hell,” one friend said. We certainly agree

Mary packing in our Montreal hotel after serving her 10 days of isolation..

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