Photography – Dan & More

NASA!

This post is part of a series. You can catch up with Cruzin’, Cruzin’: Day 2, Cruzin’: Day III, Mexico Adventures, Cruzin’ Day IV: Poison & Magic and Last Day Cruzin’

A quick note before we get going. This post covers a day and half but it’s a bloody long day and a half. You’re looking at 3,000 words so go put the kettle on.

Life is bright because we’re on the Brightline to Orlando. You may recall this photo from the previous post.

The Brightline runs up the East of Florida and is a privately run train that’s trying to be pretend it’s an airline. The stations have check-in, the waiting room is like an airport gate and they even have airliner-style carts selling snacks on the train.

Last Day Cruzin’

This post is part of a series. You can start with Cruzin’, then Cruzin’:Day Two, Mexican Adventures and Cruzin’ Day IV:Poison & Magic.

See that? That’s the beach at Bimini, part of the Bahamas. See that ship, that’s our ship. See those clouds? Full of rain. Looks like that hurricane is getting closer.

Cruzin’ Day IV: Poison & Magic

This post is part of a series. You can go back to the first one at Cruzin’ then Cruzin’: Day 2. There’s our sojourn in Mexico and this is part four.

As I write there are four liners in port and we are getting ready to leave. It’s just passed five in the afternoon and the captains are playing silly-buggers with the ships’ horns. We toot twice. The other ship toots back three times. We toot back five. Eventually it gets to Shave-and-a-Haircut. Captain Kate is a playful beast.

Cruzin’ III: Mexico Adventures

This post is part of a series. You can read Cruzin’ and Cruzin’: Day Two that occur before this one

What’s surprising about this trip is that, even though it’s open-bar, I’m not hungover and am waking for the sunrise each day. I never do this at home.

View from cabin of lights on the mainland — There’s the old 08 again.

That over there, that’s the mainland, Met-hi-co. But we’re not going there, we are heading for a little place called Cozmel, an island apparently constructed and operated by cruise-lines.

Cruzin’

Dan and Sachie have been Cruising. No, it’s not like in the Al Pacino film from 1980, quite the opposite. While Al descended into a sleazy world of leather and gay sex, Sachie and I ascended to the heights of luxury and first-class travel. That is, Sachie scored a fam trip on a boat.

Not just any boat, it’s classy Celebrity Cruises Celebrity Beyond and apparently it’s quite a score. Not your usual family-friendly booze-and-buffet cruise that has you packed into tiny airless staterooms but something closer to the golden age of sea travel, 1977’s The Love Boat.

But first! A long and arduous flight across the Pacific.