Only one vote for "Take a cruise" so far. Don't hear much about Perl Whirl and other geek cruises nowadays, compared to the glory years (2000-2005), when merlyn boasted of enjoying eight free cruises per year.

Are the Perl Whirl and other geek cruises still going strong? Sadly, I've never been on one, interested to hear what they were like from someone who has.

Searching for "cruise" by merlyn turned up:

• RE: RE: RE: PerlMonks @ PerlCon 4.0? (2000)
• A little quiet for a week or so
• Re: UPDATE!! YAPC::2001? (2001)
• Re: Re: Perl as Culture........
• Re: Apocalypse 4 on perl.com (2002)
• •Re: Bingo Challenge
• •Re: Funding Open Source / bounty-hunting...
• •Re: Re: Re: Perl as Culture........ (2003)
• •Re: Re: Microsoft's .NET ate a piece of Perl 5?
• •Re: I love this place, but where's Larry? ("If you wanna see Larry, go to OSCON or a Geek Cruise")
• •Re: Learning Perl?

• Looking for help with AI::Genetic and classroom scheduling (2005)
• Re^3: Looking for help with AI::Genetic and classroom scheduling
• Re: How has Perl helped you? ("I've been on 27 week-long cruises, thanks to Perl")
• Re^2: I'm not going to [http://braga.yapceurope.org/|YAPC Europe: Braga, Portugal], because
• Re: On Finding, Hiring, Inspiring and Keeping (2006: "eight cruises per year")

• Bill Harp massive heart attack, currently in ICU, prognosis not good (2013) (Bill and merlyn were on the inaugural Perl Whirl 2000 cruise to Alaska)