cbs news travel editor peter greenberg met her while covering another story on board. >> part of theaken care of. the cooking, cleaning and entertainment and activities but when the cruise are over the passengers return home to their regular lives, but lee showed us how she found a way to travel the world without ever leaving home. >> did you miss me? >> i did! >> reporter: you could say 88-year-old lee has earned her sea legs. >> how often are you talking to the family at home? >> i talk to them every day. i'll talk to them twice a day if it means i don't have to be there. >> reporter: aboard this ship she is known as ma mali and living there the past eight years. >> i don't have to shop. i don't have to cook. i don't have to do anything. i do what i want when i want if i want. >> reporter: she and her late husband mason took nearly 100 cruises together, before he died in 1997. >> the last thing he ever said to me, this was the day before he died, don't you quit cruising! i started frequent cruising by i got very, very tired of packing and unpacking. so i said there has to be a bett

. >> peter greenberg, ahead, cruising through life. >> there is nothing not to love living on a ship. >> we are jealous, by the way. i want you to know we are jealous. >> i want you to know, i've heard that many times. >> up next. >>> an estimated 24 million people are expected to take cruises this year. one report shows more than a quarter of them are age 64 or older and more than one fifth are retired. for many of those passenger ships are like a second home. for one woman, the ocean liner is her only home! cbs news travel editor peter greenberg met her while covering another story on board. >> part of the reason a cruise is so popular for retirees entertainment and activities but when the cruise are over the passengers return home to their regular lives, but lee showed us how she found a way to travel the world without ever leaving home. >> did you miss me? >> i did! >> reporter: you could say 88-year-old lee has earned her sea legs. >> how often are you talking to the family at home? >> i talk to them every day. i'll talk to them twice a day if it means i don't have to be there. >

. >> when the cruise is over most return home to their regular lives, peter greenberg met up with onewoman who found a way to travel the world without ever leaving home. >> you could say this 88-year- old has earned her she likes. >> how often do you talk to your family at home? >> i talked to them every day. i talked to them twice a day. >> aboard the crystal serenity she is known as mama lee. she has been living there for the past eight years. >> i don't have to shop or cook. i don't have to do anything. i do what i want, when i want if i want. >> she and her late husband took nearly 100 cruises together before he died in 1997.>> the last thing he said to me the day before he died don't you quit cruising. i started frequent cruising. but i got very very tired of packing and unpacking. so i said there has got to be a better way to do this. >> the answer was how about i don't believe that all. mama lee sold her house in florida along with her car and her belongings. never looking back. >> everybody knows her, she knows everybody. >> the captain of the crystal serenity. >> a little bit