NJBear

.........The pharmacist in Belize is a US trained and registered pharmacist from Louisiana.

Wow, there is only one pharmacist in Belize!!!

jbsteven, don't give up trying the meetings on board. My wife and I tried many times also without meeting any other FOBW. Then on our last cruise to Alaska, the first meeting was on a sea day and in the afternoon and bingo, everyone in the fellowship showed up:)

 

John

On my first DAWN cruise a few years ago, I was the only one at the first meeting until about 20-25 minutes after the meeting starting time..then 2 other people showed up--the next day 10, the day after 12 and soon we had to bring new chairs in the boardroom before the end of the cruise--the first nite from my experience is very very sparce(had I left the 1st nite, probably the 2nd person that came late would have also and so on with the 3rd, only to think noone shows up. )

On Day 1 everyone is unpacking, exploring, looking for Food and many never even see the FOBW in the freestyle daily until later

............I won't pay the high prices they want for the drinks on the ship. And you are right it is considerably cheaper. I totally commend all Friends of Bill W.

 

Roger

Actually the very least of all the reasons for an alcoholic not to drink is the cash price of one (or a dozen )drinks. For a real alcoholic to pick up a drink again more times than not..means jails, institutions and the loss of jobs,families,friends,homes,savings and sanity..For me as an alcoholic picking up a drink is like taking a huge eraser to my life and watching things and people disappear..at a very rapid rate.

I have been on 3 cruises and attend FOBW meetings on a daily basis there. I have met people that had 40 years of sobriety at them and met people that were on Day 1 of sobriety there. I am ever so grateful to the cruise lines for supplying a time and place for the meetings...I said to the Food and beverage director on the SPIRIT while thanking him for the coffee setups " You REALLY don't need one of us getting drunk on this beautiful ship, me running naked through the atrium would NOT be a pretty sight!"....hehehehe..He reminded me that they still have a brig on the ship <G>...

Thanks for the nod of support to Friends of Bill W., Even in this day and age alcoholism is considered a moral failing or a sin by many..I DO know one thing, although alcoholism to me isn't a sin....when I was drunk I committed way too many of them that I later I was blessed to have the privilege and opportunity to make amends.

I didn't know what it stood for either at first, but thought it was a weird coincidence that every cruise that I went on, this same guy (Bill W.) was there too.

hehehe, I'm a friend of Bill W. and here are 2 quick stories i found amusing on my last 2 cruises.

Over heard at the pool: "I sure do wish we'd run into that Bill W. guy, he has a party every night!" :D

In a meeting as it was beginning a man and woman walked in with his freestyle daily schedule in hand and said "Well this guy Bill even has coffee, tea, juice and cookies, we don't know who he is but we'd sure be glad to stay and meet him..is he here?"...When I told them it was a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous the man almost ran over the woman getting to the door.....hehehe , sometimes we try to do "everything" offered on the ship..

..although last cruise a young man walked in and chose (or was chosen)the middle of a cruise to get sober--what a great thing that there was help for him in the middle of an ocean:)