My day job is commenting on politics, so every time I opened the website to peruse my choices, there’d be some sort of breaking news, and I’d quickly get distracted.

This is not easy for two people who work full-time. The first step was choosing a cruise: a destination, a month, a type of cabin, which ship to go on. The cruise ship that was Navarro's floating vacation home, docked in Cassis, France Courtesy Ana Navarro So once I’d paid the money, there was no way in hell I would not go. I am genetically cheap, but most cruises are not. My boyfriend was so excited I, on the other hand, had anxiety. The next morning, I woke up with a headache and buyer’s remorse. Next thing I knew, I was the proud owner of an Azamara Club cruise to a destination of my choice. Then, I got a little carried away one night during a charity auction for Kristi House, an organization that helps victims of child sexual abuse. Then two things happened.įirst, I fell in love with a man who loves cruising with a passion I reserve for buying shoes. I’d always thought of myself as among the latter.

The first world is divided into two types of people: those who love cruising and those who hate cruising. I also know around 24 million people worldwide go on cruises each year and a bunch more are sitting home wondering if they should go on one. I know there are many people in the world lacking basic necessities, and this entire article could be hash-tagged, #FirstWorldProblems. Something I never thought I wanted to do. In a big cruise ship in the middle of the ocean, for days.

Sex or Ice cream? by Ana Navarro