Welcome to Fun Cruise Stories! 🌴 Join 6 retired couples aboard 'Via Oceanus'. Cozy, humorous audio stories with deep secrets. New eps every Wed & Sat! 🚢
Spoiler: at Niagara she told him, "We're gonna see all of it someday." 🥹 Someday took 51 years and a newspaper ad cut out and kept. Now their ship rises through the Panama Canal's first lock. Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Spoiler: the first thing was Niagara Falls, frozen, 1961. A country doctor paid in chickens and eggs emptied his coffee can, a month's living, so his new wife could see it. 🏔️ "We'll go North." Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Closing in on the Panama Canal, the calmest man aboard goes very quiet. 🚢 "That's your 'I'm somewhere else' face," Ruby Mae says. In 78 years Earl has seen only one thing bigger than he felt! Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Spoiler: by dinner all six skeptics are converts. 🕯️ Chuck naps for the first time in decades. Walter files three pages of sauna notes. With diagrams! "When you have the people, you don't need the rest." Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Spoiler: Buck finds the jacuzzi and is converted on the spot. "Best thing on the ship." 🛁 Then Walter wades in, napkin held dry above the bubbles. "Walter. Get in the water." "I am in the water." Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Spa day for Table 7. Six husbands agree, with questions. 🧖 Walter takes a cocktail napkin into the sauna: "The secondary stones are creating a convection imbalance." Eleanor just watches! Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Spoiler: forty years later, the biggest camel on a Caribbean beach groans at Chuck like an old friend. 🥹 "You're a camel man?" "Marisol, honey — we've met." His friends applaud the stuntman by name! Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Spoiler: Steve ate the director's sandwich, spat on the leading man, then took out the whole desert set with Chuck on his back. 🎬 The one person that camel liked was the stuntman who never bossed him. Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
1973. Stuntman Chuck Holloway gets the reins to a camel named Steve. 🐫 "Steve's put four men in the hospital this month," says the wrangler. "You're number five if you're lucky." Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Spoiler: Sal defends nine confiscated cured meats like a trial lawyer. "The soppressata has never harmed anyone!" 🎭 The clipboard breaks first. At dinner he still wears the fake lanyard, beaming. Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Spoiler: the "USVI Maritime Provisions Authority" doesn't exist. 🕵️ It's Buck with a clipboard, Walter as "forensic consultant" with the ship's cheese manual, and Gus. Connie set it all up! Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
St. Thomas. Sal DeLuca goes to the market for "a few things." 🧀 Thirty-one minutes later: 'nduja, soppressata, a guanciale, pecorino. His wife texts Buck: "He's done. He has a guanciale." Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Spoiler: the Professor was Walter's Uncle Harold. 🕯️ Walter unwraps a faded napkin in his uncle's hand. Sal whispers: "All those Sundays, Walter — he came to us." Two families, one stranger. Full Ep. in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife#Humor
Spoiler: Hoboken, 1951. A ragged old man ate free at Sal's father's deli every Sunday and paid in napkins full of equations and brass animals. 🐸 One was a frog that hopped. Nobody learned his name. Full Ep. in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife#Humor
Mid-Atlantic, Walter fills a cocktail napkin with equations. 📝 Across the lounge Sal DeLuca freezes, cookie in hand. "Connie. Look at the napkin." He has seen that handwriting once before! Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Spoiler: Loretta wasn't the big story. While the room watched her, Earl Washington sat at the poker table at nine and won quietly. ♠️ Two hours later the casino host told Sal. Nobody had noticed! Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife
Loretta never studies the slot machines. She touches one and says: "This one." 🎰 Three cherries, a bell, forty dollars. Then roulette, straight up at 35 to 1! Buck goes quiet for once. Full episode in bio. #FunCruise#Audiobook#IllustratedAudiobook#CruiseLife