A man has lived on cruise ships for more than 20 years: he can no longer walk normally on land

A man who lived on cruise ships for more than 20 years cannot walk properly on land after returning. What happened, the publication told Ladbible.

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Known in the cruising community as “Super Mario,” Mario Salcedo claims to be “the happiest man in the world.”

The businessman has been moving from one Royal Caribbean ship to another for more than two decades after leaving his job in finance at the age of 47.

By 2022, he had spent more than 9000 nights on cruise ships and says the lifestyle “never gets old” - only the occasional return to land causes him some difficulty.

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“I’ve lost my land legs, so I can’t walk in a straight line,” he said.

To maintain this lifestyle, he spends about $60 to $000 a year booking cruises two years in advance and selecting basic cabins, and makes his money managing investment portfolios for private clients on board the ship.

However, on port days, when most passengers go on excursions, he usually remains on the ship, going on land only about 15 days a year.

“People come here to vacation, but I don’t, I come here to live my life,” he said. “Life on a cruise ship is just an escape from reality.”

“You're essentially leaving the world as you know it on land and saying you don't want to be a part of that world anymore,” he noted.

If for some this lifestyle may seem like hell, then for Mario it is perfection.

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He explained: “I don’t have to take out the trash, I don’t have to clean, I don’t have to do laundry. I got rid of all these unimportant activities and had more time to enjoy the things I enjoy doing.”

Of course, Mario's world came crashing down when COVID-19 hit him and he was forced to live on earth like the rest of us. And it seems that this experience only confirmed his commitment to the cruise life.

In November 2021, he said: “I haven’t gone on a cruise in 15 months. It was terrifying not knowing when the ships would cruise again. I went back on a cruise for the first time on July 2 of this year on the Freedom of the Seas. “Freedom” is a great name.”

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