I came to work today and looked out my window and found a huge cruise ship docked at the river’s edge. Being in a city with an active river front it’s not uncommon to see fairly good sized boats and ships at dock. In fact, last week we had Navy and Coast Guard ships here for our Rose Festival. This ship, The World, dwarfs them all. This is a super deluxe condo community for the high seas. Check it out at http://www.aboardtheworld.com/ Yeah, how would you like to look out your window and see that? I’d rather be looking out over my deluxe seagoing condo balcony at the Portland skyline. I’m not stupid!!
Well, I guess I’d enjoy it for awhile but eventually I’d get tired of it. In fact, it probably wouldn’t take that long. Cruises seem like a wonderful idea, and if you’re with the right people and on the right water for a reasonable length of time, it probably is great. But, I have to honest with myself and after two week on Oahu, that island got to feeling really small to me. I think I’m too much of a westerner to appreciate small spaces for long. Let’s face it, it’s a little hard to get in the car and go tooling around a ship. I guess The World would not be big enough for me. LOL
My favorite vacation ever was when Kristin (my daughter) graduated high school and we took a driving vacation. We started by driving down the Oregon coast on Highway 101 until it connected with Highway 1. We followed it all the way to San Francisco. We saw the redwoods, Banded Dunes, elk herds sitting right on she shoulder of the road, small towns, roadside parks, and cheesy tourist traps. We had a great time!!
After San Fran we went to see Hearst’s Castle, Yosemite, Crater Lake and about a billion acres of land and sky. It was a vacation of open possibilities. We could just take off in any direction we wanted and see what interested us. We were limited only by our imaginations and our wallets. The second being the most limiting factor.
Of course, my wallet would be a real limiting factor to cruising on The World as well.
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