I can't be too worried about what might happen. I took a three day cruise one time, it was the best, most relaxing weekend of my life. I'd do it again if I had the ameros to blow. Before and since, every vacation I took (mostly long weekends) involved driving long distances one day to get there, spend a day sleeping it off, another day sightseeing and packing for the return trip the next day. On the ship, no traffic to worry about. After a career in transportation, it's refreshing.
My favorite trip was on the (now sadly defunct) Ro-Ro overnight ferry from Portland ME to Yarmoth NS. Drive on at 9 PM, park in the hold, go and dump your bags in your room. watch the dock slide away over drinks from the top deck, sleep, get up in the morning for breakfast, watch the whales over OJ on deck, slide into Yarmoth harbor in mid-morning, drive into Atlantic Canada rested and refreshed. Beat the hell out of driving up through the endless chip and tar and pine needle New Brunswick roads and over south of PEI. Aside from the drunk woman chundering in the next cabin, it was a lovely ride.
Grounding? Gas leak? Dead Captain? Eh, at least it wasn't Norovirus.
I knew people that toured Central America like that. Booked passage through the steamship company on a cargo ship, loaded their car on and away they went. Cheap, and the crew were very nice.
There was a guy – before 9-11-01 and everybody went nuts – who outfitted a standard sized shipping container like a travel trailer and shipped himself all over the world. I can't find the links to the stories, but he seems to have disappeared as mysteriously as he was found.
Yeah that was a shocker. The US bankruptcy judge is letting a few of the ships actually dock and unload, but there's lots of them just hanging offshore all over the world, afraid to come in lest they be impounded.
Maersk is pretty popular out here and not likely to fail any time soon. I think.
You never know! I had an uncle who was a merchant marine his whole life, starting in WWII. Worked for Pacific Far East Lines during their whole span of operating. They couldn't make the transition to containerized shipping, and my uncle saw an opportunity. He quit and became a "consultant", and helped broker their bankruptcy and sale to Matson Lines, making quite a tidy profit for himself, of course. He became evil, money can do that…
Um…
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Wheeee!
I can't be too worried about what might happen. I took a three day cruise one time, it was the best, most relaxing weekend of my life. I'd do it again if I had the ameros to blow. Before and since, every vacation I took (mostly long weekends) involved driving long distances one day to get there, spend a day sleeping it off, another day sightseeing and packing for the return trip the next day. On the ship, no traffic to worry about. After a career in transportation, it's refreshing.
My favorite trip was on the (now sadly defunct) Ro-Ro overnight ferry from Portland ME to Yarmoth NS. Drive on at 9 PM, park in the hold, go and dump your bags in your room. watch the dock slide away over drinks from the top deck, sleep, get up in the morning for breakfast, watch the whales over OJ on deck, slide into Yarmoth harbor in mid-morning, drive into Atlantic Canada rested and refreshed. Beat the hell out of driving up through the endless chip and tar and pine needle New Brunswick roads and over south of PEI. Aside from the drunk woman chundering in the next cabin, it was a lovely ride.
Grounding? Gas leak? Dead Captain? Eh, at least it wasn't Norovirus.
I knew people that toured Central America like that. Booked passage through the steamship company on a cargo ship, loaded their car on and away they went. Cheap, and the crew were very nice.
There was a guy – before 9-11-01 and everybody went nuts – who outfitted a standard sized shipping container like a travel trailer and shipped himself all over the world. I can't find the links to the stories, but he seems to have disappeared as mysteriously as he was found.
Hmm. I own a 20 ft shipping container…
That's a good start. A little ingenuity and a few trip to REI, army surplus and IKEA and you'll be all set. | I'd be careful who you ship with, though. |
I heard about Hanjin's troubles. All the ports are quite concerned. Maybe I could give my business to McTurtle's in-laws instead.
Yeah that was a shocker. The US bankruptcy judge is letting a few of the ships actually dock and unload, but there's lots of them just hanging offshore all over the world, afraid to come in lest they be impounded.
Maersk is pretty popular out here and not likely to fail any time soon. I think.
You never know! I had an uncle who was a merchant marine his whole life, starting in WWII. Worked for Pacific Far East Lines during their whole span of operating. They couldn't make the transition to containerized shipping, and my uncle saw an opportunity. He quit and became a "consultant", and helped broker their bankruptcy and sale to Matson Lines, making quite a tidy profit for himself, of course. He became evil, money can do that…
The root of it, indeed.