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Concluded
I realize I’m a day late in posting my final thoughts on our trip. I’m probably a dollar short, too. Better late than never, I suppose. I have no idea why I just used two idioms in the span of three sentences. Probably boatlag. Okay. Cruise. Final thoughts. Leigh and I thoroughly enjoyed our cruise, […]
Last Day Blues
Today was our last day of the cruise. We should arrive in Galveston sometime tomorrow morning around 6:30, and hopefully we’ll be able to get off the ship and through customs before 8:00AM. I’ll post final thoughts about the cruise tomorrow night. To be concluded…
Tulum And More Dumbass Americans
Still cruisin’, but we only have one more full day at sea. We dock at Galveston on Sunday. This will be a relatively short post because I haven’t showered yet, we have dinner in an hour, and frankly, I’m freaking exhausted. We arrived at Cozumel this morning around 9:30. Leigh and I had booked an […]
Grand Cayman and Dumbass Americans
Still cruisin’, cruisin’, cruisin’. We spent all day yesterday in Jamaica, and we arrived at Grand Cayman this morning around seven o’clock. Since a coral reef surrounds the Grand Cayman Island, large cruise ships cannot dock at the port. We dropped anchor in the middle of the bay, approximately half a mile from the dock, […]
Jamaica Mon
I realize I didn’t post last night. We were slightly dazed all day and all night because of the art auction. I wrote in the last post that I wasn’t going to drink, since I was scared I might get a little bid-happy if I imbibed during the auction. In hindsight, maybe I should have […]
Burned Feet and Hairy Backs
This will be a short post because it’s almost one o’clock as I’m typing this, and I’m debilitatingly groggy. Too much sun””too much wine. Mark needs sleepy time. I believe I made mention in the last post of a hairy, middle-eastern man who was shedding in the swimming pools. Well, this afternoon Carnival held a […]
Bon Voyage
This afternoon at 4:00, Leigh and I departed from Galveston, Texas on the Carnival cruise ship The Conquest. As I’m writing this, we’re in the Gulf of Mexico, several hundred miles from Galveston. On Wednesday, we’ll make a stop in Montego Bay, Jamaica. This is our first cruise, and it’s a little odd. Neither of […]
Be Mine
Ellie is looking for a Valentine’s Day date. She’s got stuffed animals, wine, and a lovely red rose to present to her suitor. Any takers?
It’s A Dirty Job But Someone’s Gotta Do It
As an instructor, I’m going to go ahead and admit something that a lot of folks in the education system don’t have the courage to come out and say: Not everyone needs to go to college. There. I said it. For some reason we, the American society, have venerated collegiate life and devalued more traditional […]