Santorini with no people, Lai, Mark, Tetiaroa, Bora Bora & Our Athens Cruise Room Balcony
- Mar 30
- 3 min read
Laileigh: “What are you looking at?”
Angel: “Santorini.” See all the beautiful white buildings with the blue roofs going down the cliffside… Look at this ocean… it’s called a caldara. It’s actually the top of a submerged volcano. Like Tetiaroa.” She’s known about Tetiaroa all her life, an atoll off Tahiti. She can pick out Bora Bora’s striking mountaintop from a dozen random islands. “I’m studying the places our Athens cruise goes.” That got her attention. She looks more closely…
Lai: “Why is Santorini all empty?”
Angel (thinking “Clever Girl.”): “I picked all the pictures with no people.” She peers more closely…
Lai: “THERE’S a person.” She’s right. Ant size way down at the bottom house on the cliff. Now she starts having fun… peering, searching… “And THERE’S a person…” Yep, she spotted another one I hadn’t seen. “And THERE’s a person…”
Angel: “MANnnn. I thought I found all the pictures without any people in them. I hate people. People ruin everything.” Lai doesn’t. “Well, not ALL people. I love YOU. I love GOOD people. All the rest can just disappear…”
Same day. Mark on the phone…
Mark: “Angel, you SAY you hate people. But then you go right into the middle of a BIG crowd and get up on the stage with your guitar, right in the middle of it all, and you’re wonderful. I’ve SEEN you.”
Angel: “Yeah, because I’m TELLING THEM HOW to be GOOD.” Mark has his two dogs beside him. He adores his dogs. We are on FaceTime. “DOGS are WAY better than PEOPLE. People are just awful. I like GOOD people, there just aren’t that many. See?”
Mark (immediately agrees dogs are way better than people): “Yeah, dogs are better. I need to cut my circle way down like you do.” He’s serious. But Mark’s career and personality requires him to network. He’s really good at it. He really loves everyone. My lifestyle wouldn’t work for Mark. But he does get what I’m saying.
Back to Lai…
Angel: “Here. Let’s look at our Greek cruise room. I LOVE it.” I click on the video already on my big TV screen (I use as my computer monitor.) “It’s JUST LIKE my room I had on the Dreamer’s cruise from Miami that I loved.” Now I start talking to the irritating man in the video who is showing us the closet. “We don’t want to see the CLOSET. Idiot. Show us the BATHTUB…” I skip around on the video to the tub, my favorite part of my room. A room with a tub is expensive and rare. I adore hot water. It makes my body feel better, which always hurts, from the decades I spent on my computer. “Show us the BEDROOM and the BALCONY.” I skip around and find them. “There. Look at our beautiful bed and just LOOK at our HUGE balcony. Look at our VIEW! I love it! It’s JUST LIKE the room I had on the other cruise. I LOVED it. But THIS one is at the very back of the entire ship, right in the middle. So our view is gorgeous, perfect. I show Lai the view. We can see where we’ve just been. I love it.”
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Written March 30, 2026 at 9:16 am
