Despite all the TikTok fervor, there have been very few actual moments of drama from the 9-month Ultimate World Cruise excursion that set off earlier this month. Antoine McWilliams is the exception to that rule.
McWilliams signed up for Royal Caribbean’s Ultimate World Cruise in 2021 as a solo traveler, taking the trip in memory of his late husband Michael, who died of cancer in 2018.
Before he died, Michael made McWilliams promise to travel.
“He said, ‘Travel will be your sanity, travel will be your salvation.’ And that’s exactly what I’ve done for the last five years is travel the world,” McWilliams told Business Insider.
The 54-year-old retired public health project coordinator wanted to take a side trip to Brazil during the cruise to visit friends and some of the special places he and Michael had traveled to in past years, so he asked …