Most of our stuff is still on the Villa Vie Odyssey. We're on another cruise, waiting to see what happens next.

This as-told-to composition is according to a conversation alongside Dwight Greene, 64, a Villa Vie Odyssey passenger from Fort Worth, Texas. He and his wife, Sheila, are journey vloggers. It has been edited for dimension and clarity.

My wife, Sheila, and I have continually loved to journey and have been on plentifulness of cruises. It was our allies who archetypal told us concerning the residential ship. In May 2025, we flew to Acapulco, Mexico, and sailed for a week to Mazatlán through Villa Vie Odyssey's "try before you buy" program.

We loved it so much that we decided we wanted to be a part of it.

Six weeks later, we came residence from a distinct trip to Europe and had two weeks to group for the move. We kept our home in Texas.

We had been traveling alongside Villa Vie Odyssey for complete a year.

We joined the container in August 2025, whenever it docked in Yokohama, Japan. I had lone been to Tokyo formerly before, complete three decades earlier, so I was enthusiastic to come back to this part of the world. We flew complete alongside seven elephantine suitcases.

The day the container was expected to attain in Yokohama, it was raining. We put on ponchos and walked around, trying to see whether we could place it. We came to a clearing on a extend overlooking the water, and there she was.

When we eventually went aboard, I recall thinking it was the top day of our lives.

We established a community aboard

The Villa Vie Odyssey didn't awareness akin any another cruise we'd been on.

What really got us was the people. On another cruises, nobody always talked to us. It's akin we were invisible. But on the Odyssey, group would arrive up and say, "Hello, greeted aboard. Let's current ourselves." We made allies in one week.

A lot of group rotated tables, and we would eat meal alongside distinct group all night. Sometimes we would fair be strolling by, and person would say, "Have meal alongside us."

There was a buffet and a sit-down eatery alongside tablecloths and silverware. We drank vino all day.

We put on our own shows, too. I had been a phase actor, so whenever person dropped out of a musical, they roped me into it, and it was a blast.

Staying on the container complete period would have been too restrictive for us. We akin to bop around. We use it akin an airplane carrier, getting off to do profound dives into another countries as it travels the world.

Then, we'll arrive rear to our "home," apart from it's in a cruise cabin.

For example, whenever the container changed its New Zealand itinerary in March, we got off in Dunedin alongside two friends, rented a car, and spent a brace of weeks traveling about the nation before flying to Melbourne to encounter the container again.

We had already set off on our own

By the period the Villa Vie Odyssey halted operations in Cambodia final week, Sheila and I had already gotten off.

The archetypal period the container docked in Sihanoukville in delayed September, we got off to journey through Cambodia. In first October, we met the container again in Laem Chabang, near Bangkok, to choice up a few additional things from our cabin. That was the final period we were aboard.

By then, everyone knew the container was having energy issues, and group had started talking concerning it additional seriously. While in Bangkok, we were additionally told that multiple ports would be dropped from the itinerary, leaving the Odyssey at sea alongside lone a concise refueling stop.

With small to no net expected during that period, and no certainty that we'd be capable to get off in period to fly to Singapore for a Royal Princess cruise we had booked months earlier, we decided not to remain aboard.

We got off and traveled about Thailand instead, before making our way to Singapore for our cruise.

The cruise we're on now is expected to end in Singapore on November 10, about the period the Odyssey was initially scheduled to arrive. We thought, "They'll arrive, we'll arrive, and we'll fair alter ships."

That was the plan. Then, we got the notice that the Odyssey was halting operations.

We were fortunate that our journey plans were already in place, so we had location to go. We knew another passengers were in a much harder position.

When we got off in first October, we took the crucial material we needed. I remaining most of my things on the ship, including a full-size refrigerator and a big-screen TV we put up.

I have been furious before, whenever I was younger, and I did not akin the individual it made me. Now, I am a affirmative person. I try to appearance for what is fine in all situation. My spouse and I are the two that way — it's how we go through life.

If the container is in Singapore whenever we attain in mid-November, we'd affection to hop rear on board. For now, we're waiting to discover out what happens next.