Old Maid's Puzzle

“Mama” Lee Wachtstetter loved to travel with her husband. “Mason was a banker and real estate appraiser,” she says. “He taught me to love cruising. During our 50-year marriage we did 89 cruises together.” She kept cruising after Mason passed away. Over the years she’s been to nearly every country with a port. When her daughter and many of her Fort Lauderdale friends had also passed, she made a bold decision. She sold her house, her car, and most of her possessions. She’s been cruising ever since. Since 2008 her home has been the Crystal Serenity, a ship that holds 1,070 passengers and a crew of 655. Mama Lee still chats with her family. “I’d talk to them twice a day, so long as I don’t have to be there.” She seldom disembarks. “When everybody goes ashore it’s so quiet and I have the whole ship for myself.” She’s even published a book: “I May Be Homeless but You Should See My Yacht.”