This week on The World Wanderers we are excited to be chatting with Riley Tench. Riley works as a lighting technician on cruise ships, and for the past 4 months has been “stranded”, living aboard a ship in the Pacific. Riley has been documenting this journey on his YouTube channel and sharing what it has been like living through a pandemic while working on a cruise ship up until the point when ships stopped sailing. In this episode we talk about how Riley’s interest in travel started, what led him to working on cruise ships, and then talking through his experience of living through the pandemic and now spending 100+ days living on a ship without guests. In this episode: * How Riley started travelling and working on cruise ships* What is his day to day work like onboard? * How did he first hear about the novel Coronavirus and what was the experience onboard like during this time? * Where have they been and what has the ship been doing since they stopped running trips with guests* Why did Riley decide to stay on the ship when he had the option to go home at one point* What does day to day life look like today? * Going into a 14 day lockdown when a crew member came down with a fever* Why Riley started making YouTube videos* Finding meaning through creationIf you would to get access to the past and future episodes of our nomad series as a World Wanderers Insider, head on over to Patreon.com/theworldwanderers. Thank you so much for your continued support!