What an unbelievable 3 months it has been! Here are just a few of the highlights:

• Sailed Carnival Jubilee’s inaugural cruise out of Galveston, Texas
• Experienced two new-to-us cruise lines (MSC and Margaritaville At Sea)
• Visited new-to-us ports like Martinique and Barbados

In addition to those amazing experiences, we’ve also DOUBLED our YouTube following in that same period of time. On December 17, I wrote how we exceeded our 2023 goal hitting 2,500 subscribers. Now, just over three months later, you’ve helped us double that number!

Original 2024 YouTube Goals

As we began planning for 2024, we targeted 5,000 subscribers for the entire year. But then, based on the number of new ships and experiences we booked for 2024, we decided to increase our goal at the start of the year by 20% to 6,000 subscribers.

At the time, that number seemed daunting – but our followers helped us crush that original 5,000 goal in just the first 3 months of the year! Mind blown and humbled.

Updated 2024 YouTube Goals

Based on the tremendous support the cruise community has demonstrated toward Rocky and me, we’ve decided to update our 2024 YouTube Goal again. We’re taking that 6,000 number and increasing it another 25% to 7,500 YouTube Subscribers by the end of 2024.

That’s equivalent to an average of 9 subscribers a day. Every single day. Every single day for the rest of the year. Is it possible? Well, we’re setting an ambitious goal to find out – and we’re having fun along the way as we shoot for the moon!

How You Can Help

There are 4 ways you can hep us achieve our 2024 goal:

• Watch some videos, share your comments, click those like buttons, and join our various LIVE events to say hello
• Click that Subscribe button. YOU will help us achieve our 2024 goal, and we’re excited to welcome you to our little community
• Share a video or our channel with the cruise lover in your life. So much of our growth has come from word-of-mouth and we so appreciate when our followers share
• Sign up for our Newsletter! We don’t spam, I promise. We work to get out a monthly update for our followers

I’ll be posting our journey and updates throughout the year. It’s definitely a stretch goal for us, but we plan to share a lot of goodness with you, including the exciting upcoming Carnival Firenze inaugural sailing! Plus, we can’t wait to share the Margaritaville At Sea Islander inaugural as well. Of course, there are multiple other ships we’ll be sailing this year and tons of cruise tips and tricks we’ll be posting – so, there’s plenty of new content coming!

Cheers to 2024. -Mark (and Rocky)