The GCW Tour, Buenos Aires & Antarctica: An Added Benefit for the Cruising Cancer Patient

In my daily life, I am now typically one of the slowest people in any group. If you ran a race including all the people on, say, my bus to work, or my floor at work, or in the grocery store near my house or the restaurants I like to eat at, I can pretty much guarantee that I would end that race somewhere in the bottom 20% of the group.

Not so much with cruise passengers, though. I'm actually pretty sure that with this bunch I'd probably wind up in the top 20%. To give you just a flavor of the group, at today's meeting regarding the procedure for landings the following question was raised, "Since so many in our group have artificial knees..." 

In short, while the passenger list manifests diversity across most variables -- gender, nationality, language spoken, height, weight, etc. -- the one place it doesn't is age. Crew aside, I've seen four people on board I would place at less than twenty. There might -- and I emphasize might -- be ten who are less than thirty. We start picking up speed at forty, and gather more at fifty, but I'd bet at least half the people on board the Fram are over sixty. 

Not exactly what I was expecting,* but it's nice -- and at times frustrating (get out of my way old people!) -- to feel fast again.

* I know cruising tends to attract the senior set, but for some reason I though Antarctica would be different. Apparently not.