>"We don't travel first class. And so when we have other ladies, especially who say, 'Oh, I would love to travel with you two,' the first thing I always do is look at their hands. If they are well-manicured, they do not want to travel with us," Hazelip said.
One is a physician and the other is a documentary photographer. They probably have a decent amount of money to fund the trip but it sounds like it's not exactly a pleasure cruise. It's way less privileged for two retirees using their life's savings and lifelong experience to do something like this rather than some Zoomer using their parents' money and (wilfully) unemployed free time to do the same thing.
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>"We don't travel first class. And so when we have other ladies, especially who say, 'Oh, I would love to travel with you two,' the first thing I always do is look at their hands. If they are well-manicured, they do not want to travel with us," Hazelip said.
One is a physician and the other is a documentary photographer. They probably have a decent amount of money to fund the trip but it sounds like it's not exactly a pleasure cruise. It's way less privileged for two retirees using their life's savings and lifelong experience to do something like this rather than some Zoomer using their parents' money and (wilfully) unemployed free time to do the same thing.