Help me decide with this dilemma please!

[drrich2]

I like Steve_C's answer. While I am mainly a vacation diver, diving for me is a love and a daily obsession. If ScubaBoard ceased it'd be like a good friend died. My wife and I are set for a cruise later this year, but I spend more time obsessing about 2 dive trips I want to take in 2015, Lord willing. Prior to diving, cruising was my favorite thing to do. Now, it's a nice way to spend a week if I can't be diving. And I'm not diving on the cruise to mollify the wife a bit, since on our 'scuba trips disguised as family vacations' I don't spend all that much time with the family.

From that perspective, I can understand diving as an 'addiction,' in a sense. And if the possibility of diving is on the table, then on any trip to a destination where diving's good, it's going to eat at you. You'll start giving those 'I'm just not happy' vibes off, guilt-tripping your spouse into suggesting you go dive. If I could be diving, and I'm doing something else instead, much of the time I measure it against the dives I could be doing.

But there are other fun things to do. A boat tour up the New River in Belize to walk the rainforest & climb atop Mayan ruins. Snorkeling is fun. Zoos & public aquariums are nice. I tried parasailing; once was enough, but it was worthwhile.

Whatever floats your boat… (Yeah, not scuba obsessed here. No sir&#8230.

Richard.