What's so great about cruises?

[_Jersey Girl]

I want to go to Walden Pond. Can I cruise to that?

[_Jersey Girl]

# 1 rule...Cruises are only as fun as who you go with.

My wife and I go on a local 3 day Ensenada Mexico cruise often. People watching is great on cheap Carnival Cruises, especially watching those that buy the "exclusive drink ticket." The food is basically crappy buffet food, except for the taco bar and the Cheeseburger bar. The comedy clubs are actually pretty funny most the time, they can get foul, but the clean ones are pretty funny.

But, believe it or not most years we win enough to pay for the trip. We bring a few hundred dollars to loose, but win far more than we loose overall.

But it is fun to have a day in Mexico buying crap, amoxicillin, and eating tacos, and going to the blow hole.

See? That's Vegas on the water.

[_Res Ipsa]

I want to go to Walden Pond. Can I cruise to that?

Walked around Walden Pond once. Not a cruise ship in sight.

by the way, Mrs. Ipsa shares your views on cruises.

[_Jersey Girl]

I want to go to Walden Pond. Can I cruise to that?

Walked around Walden Pond once. Not a cruise ship in sight.

by the way, Mrs. Ipsa shares your views on cruises.

I want to go to Walden and sit under a tree and read Walden. ALONE.

Mrs. Ipsa is my kinda lady!

[_Jersey Girl]

Okay thanks to all who chimed in there. I am going back to my happy place (involves dirt) and will check later to see if anyone came up with ideas that make me feel jazzed about a possible cruise.

[_Markk]

This will certainly change your mind.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9kVww8BSVk

[_Jersey Girl]

This will certainly change your mind.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9kVww8BSVk

Oh yes. That put me right over the edge. Vegas for sure.

I'd like to think I have just a little more class in my ass* than that. I do Electric Slide in a historical pioneer building.

Thanks very much!


*Jerseyspeak get over it.

[_Dr. Shades]

But it is fun to have a day in Mexico buying crap, amoxicillin, and eating tacos, and going to the blow hole.

Your wife allows you to visit the brothel??

[_honorentheos]

Hi Jersey Girl,

I don't feel like being a cruise missionary. I enjoyed the one we went on. Until setting foot in Alaska I had no idea the coast got more rain than anywhere else in the US besides Hawaii. It was beautiful. At various ports we hiked around the Mendenhall Glarier, had a run on with a brown bear and her Cubs, saw more bald eagles than I knew existed, took a small boat out whale watching where we ended up 10 yards from a small post of orcas, sat on the side of a river watching sea otters, hung out with dog sled dogs which I knew little about, and many other things I don't think can be recreated in Vegas. But for me the most.memorable experience was during a day at sea. We were on the last cruise boat of the season in September, and saw foul weather a few times. This particular day we hit a storm and everyone was under shelter. Being a virgin to ocean travel, I thought it novel to go out on deck during the storm, and went to the front deck below the pilot house. It was surrounded by plexiglass over head height but otherwise it was the bow of the ship and then the great, rolling dark ocean. I can only describe it as sublime, in the sense it dwarfed every sense I had of my own ego as I spent about a half hour just looking out at it all, the energy and apathy of it. It was a tourists experience for sure, and not to be confused with what real seamen and women experience. But it was something.

[_Jersey Girl]

We were on the last cruise boat of the season in September, and saw foul weather a few times. This particular day we hit a storm and everyone was under shelter. Being a virgin to ocean travel, I thought it novel to go out on deck during the storm, and went to the front deck below the pilot house. It was surrounded by plexiglass over head height but otherwise it was the bow of the ship and then the great, rolling dark ocean. I can only describe it as sublime, in the sense it dwarfed every sense I had of my own ego as I spent about a half hour just looking out at it all, the energy and apathy of it. It was a tourists experience for sure, and not to be confused with what real seamen and women experience. But it was something.

THAT'S my idea of a good time, honor! Thanks for sharing that awe inspiring experience!