<br /><br />Welcome Aboard, Fred.<br /><br />Our very first cruise was aboard the Mardi Gras in 1982.  Did you ever do any of the Sitmar ships??<br /><br />I sailed to Europe on the M.S. Maurice Rose in 1954.  A troop ship, does that count??  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes2:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> <br /><br />