To: Bob J
Wife and I really wanted to make this trip - but finances were just not there. Alaska sounds wonderful - except that ratchets up the cost significantly.... Will have to wait and see. Hard to beat $610 (and then $510) for the week long cruise!
31 posted on
06/09/2003 1:37:15 PM PDT by
TheBattman
(Big Brother is closer than you would like to know......)
To: TheBattman
I'm sure we will find a way to make that trip affordable...we always do.
33 posted on
06/09/2003 1:41:05 PM PDT by
Bob J
(Freerepublic.net...where it's always a happening....)
To: TheBattman
Alaska sounds wonderful - except that ratchets up the cost significantly Not to mention that the locale kinda kills the "beach party" aspect of it ;)
(I still want to go to Antarctica before I shuffle off ... maybe I could ask the Captain to make a wee little side trip ...)
35 posted on
06/09/2003 1:44:06 PM PDT by
strela
("Have Word Processor, Will Travel" reads the card of a man ...)
To: TheBattman; hoosiermama
Alaska sounds wonderful - except that ratchets up the cost significantly IIRC, I believe it was HoosierMama in another thread who suggested a Windjammer Cruises sailing next time. (HM, slap me if I'm wrong, please).
A little more work is involved as you ARE the crew to some degree, and I'm not sure if the cost issue would be ameliorated by the passenger-as-crew aspect at all, but I believe it an intriguing idea nonetheless. At least the class of rations carried on sailing ships these days has improved from the weevil-ridden hardtack and watered-down pusser's rum of a previous day.
(Free clue: Take plenty of gloves. Leather, sturdy gloves. Several pairs. Unless you love blisters.)
43 posted on
06/09/2003 2:08:20 PM PDT by
strela
("Have Word Processor, Will Travel" reads the card of a man ...)
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