For Barbara Geels Dingle and her husband Jon, exploring other cultures and countries is a part of life.
“We love travel,” Barbara said.
Their love for exploring has taken them on adventures around the world, from Alaska to Amsterdam to Hong Kong. So to celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary, they decided to go big.
“We had never been to Hawaii or Tahiti for that matter so we said, OK, we want to go to French Polynesia and we found this fantastic, amazing cruise,” she said.
A 12-day South Pacific cruise that would take them from Honolulu to Papeete, with several stops in between, over the Thanksgiving holiday last year. But days into their adventure, Barbara knew something was wrong with her husband, as they prepared for the day’s excursion.
“We woke up in Bora Bora, it was a dream,” she said. “It’s been a bucket list item for many people and my husband, he had …