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Mikey's Cruise

LelandLeland
edited December 2011
This is the thread where we talk about Mikey's cruise.

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  • LelandLeland
    I heard it was weird.
  • LelandLeland
    Mikey, Welcome ashore!

    Please tell us about your cruise.

    How long was it? Where did you cruise to? Did you become relaxed? Did you feel trapped?
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    Where did you go? Who went with you?

    Did you ever read that David Foster Wallace essay about riding on a cruise ship?
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http://www.harpers.org/media/pdf/dfw/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf&ei=4O33Tp_4NYOUiQKinpi1Dg&usg=AFQjCNHqKsiV1Q8BPYH7-4C0jMOnorspww
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    Did you grow disenchanted with the quality of your room service sandwich?

    Did you swim in a pool whilst atop the ocean?
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I like that JD Salinger story about the Glass kid on a cruise ship... what happens at the end?
  • 12341234
    Curt and I recorded a special correspondent report on the boat for BFOT. I don't want to give away too many spoilers but I had quite a bill this past week for alcohol drink purchases.
  • 12341234
    edited December 2011
    Coava in Honduras

    (in the Caribbean i open one more button on my Brooks Brothers shirt)
  • LelandLeland


    Is that blue liquid to the right of your shoulder a sea of alcohol?
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    they call it...Blue Curacao Bay.

  • LelandLeland
    I imagine our hero just dunked his mug in it for a slurp.
  • 12341234
    edited December 2011
    Coffee Routines:

  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    You can always tell a UHXr on holiday from their commitment to quality coffee.
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    It's like how we had to bring a french press and Courier Coffee to Breitenbush because those damn hippies don't serve any caffeinated beverages at their damn retreat center! People were so jealous though, I could tell.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I am really inspired by this to start bringing my own coffee places. I just got back from Phoenix where my mother in law has one of those espresso-pod machines where you insert a plastic pod into a robot and it punctures it and runs boiling water through it, and you get a weird burnt coffee that tastes like plastic. The best case scenario is that we get to go to Starbucks instead. Why don't I just travel with my own coffee?? Just commit to it, like one commits to packing one's exczema cream and tampons

    I want to hear more about the cruise, and if you felt like David Foster Wallace (your experience had to have been better than his simply due to the coffee situation) and if you saw dolphin or shark, and what kinds of drinks you drank, and if you gambled, and what the after-dinner theater scene was like!

    I went on a cruise when I was 16 and all I remember is making out furiously, at every possible free moment, with an English boy I met upon the boat. I saw neither dolphin nor shark, only the kissy-face of a brit in close-up. It was awesome.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I love taking coffee on a camping trip.

    I think DFW's problem was that he went on the cruise alone. Bad choice. I LOVE CRUISES.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited December 2011
    they had that fuced up coffe machine where I worked
    it was humiliating... i assume that's the point
    all labels on the water machine telling you to press two buttons at once
  • curtcurt
    I won about $70 on the cruise playing Roulette and $1/$2 no-limit (with a 10% rake!).
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