A Los Angeles couple trapped for weeks aboard a cruise to South America are now back home, recovering from shock, fear and awaiting test results for COVID-19.
By March 23, they had been ordered to isolate in their cabins. They were not allowed to emerge until their ship, the Zaandam, docked at Florida’s Port Everglades last Thursday.
The Zaandam had been traveling in tandem with its sister ship, the Rotterdam, where officials had transferred healthier passengers. Because Min-Lee Cheng had a fever, resulting from what he believes is gastritis, he and his wife never changed vessels, watching wistfully from their room window while many of the 12 friends they traveled with boarded what some passengers called “safer space.
The Chengs and hundreds of other passengers were required to go through health screenings before taking chartered flights from Fort Lauderdale. Yet the couple again faced delays when they missed their connecting flight in San Francisco on Friday, finally landing on Saturday in Los Angeles, where they carpooled with fellow travelers to a medical office to get tested for COVID-19. Now, they’re awaiting results.
“We were told that South America was the safest place to visit when we departed,” said Min-Lee Cheng, 72. “The world was not like the way it is now with mass quarantining. We had no clue this would happen.”
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