'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Oh yeah - I read about freighter cruises a few years back. Sounds really cool, but I got the impression most of the cruises would take a month or more.
Still, with enough planning maybe I could take a month off at some point....
eta: Looks like there's a number of cruises on freighters to Europe and back that take about a month. I suppose one could take the ship one-way and fly back.
I think ocean-watching is where they lose me. Unless it's framed by land, not that interesting to me. I think that's why river cruises pique my interest more.
I got the impression most of the cruises would take a month or more.
They've got a 77-day cruise that goes from New York, through the Med, through the Suez Canal, to the Arabian Coast, to India, and back.
Gosh.
They've got a 77-day cruise
I wonder if the ships have internet access... You could make it a long, (mostly) working trip.
You could make it a long, (mostly) working trip.
It's how Alex Haley wrote Roots.
I think this hot chocolate is steamed milk and Hershey's syrup. Teh nast.
I seem to recall there being a BMW purchase option where you fly to Europe to get your car, drive it to the port, and sail back with.
Kinda interesting.
Travelocity has a link to that BMW option.
From last night:
Thylacaleo
Thylacine.
These sound more like drug names, rather than marsupials.
From another page on the freighter cruise site
The Trinity House Vessel Patricia is a working ship offering passengers an opportunity to view the day-to-day activities she undertakes on her regular rounds of lighthouse, lightship and navigational buoy maintenat around the coasts of England, Wales and the Channel Islands.
Sigh. That would be pretty.
These sound more like drug names, rather than marsupials.
Yeah. Drugs that were banned after they resulted in birth defects of marsupial pouches.