A few weeks after the residential cruise ship sailed, Rhodes, who joined mainly for a change after years of van life, was asked what made him different from the other residents. This is how he describes them.
…I've been driving down the last 13 years. I think I'll give it a shot. It's not any deeper than that. It's like it seemed like an interesting thing to do at a time when I was looking for something new to do. And so I signed up. I think this makes me very different than most of the people on board.
How's that?
Most of the people on board, this has been the dream of their life to live on a cruise ship. These are people, these are hardcore cruise people. They took cruise ships to get over here to get on the cruise. When the cruise got delayed, they filled the time by getting on another cruise.
So in a word, how would you describe the experience so far?
So far, I would say it's been incredibly frustrating because very little has gone right so far. Above and beyond the four months of being stranded in Belfast, once we got out of Belfast, a myriad of things went wrong right away. First, including that it turns out we weren't really allowed out of…
That seems like a pretty profound oversight. Yes.