Internet has been scarce, but I'm finally updating. I've concluded Day 2 of the road trip and successfully made it through three states and one time zone. And now I'm in Illinois. I made it to Denver easily enough and my road trip companion and I spent all of Thursday prepping for the trip. We bought healthy road snacks at Whole Foods. We went to Target and I got stuff for my living situation in Maine. We found enough time to pamper ourselves and get manicures and pedicures. I know my nails will just get destroyed once I start work in [View Full Entry]

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The key to a successful road trip (from my completely amateur, inexperienced, first timer position) is all in the name. You have to name your trip and it has to be memorable, catchy, and amusing. That way, when you refer to it later, it's always interesting to talk about. So for this trip to Maine, coming up with a name was kind of a challenge. "The Great American Road Trip" seemed a little overused and therefore, not so memorable for my particular trip. "Maine-tastic" just wasn't zingy enough. I considered "Keep Driving until you hit Atlantic Ocean", but that doesn't exactly [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from North Carolina. So far I've seen two freeways, one highway, a parkway, two Hampton Inns, and the airport. My travels are the stuff of legends I tell ya. The trip to the hotel reminded me of driving through Charleston. The freeways are surrounded by green and very few buildings are visible from there. Everything is so spacious and far apart. I expected gas to be cheaper around here though. I know it's the 2nd most populated city in North Carolina, but I still imagine there being a lot less cars here than in California. And gas is only cheaper [View Full Entry]

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I've decided to reinstate my travel blog in honor of the great deal of traveling I'll be doing this summer. I'll try much harder to keep it updated. I think it will help that I plan on staying on land the entire time. The internet tends to be a bit more reliable on land. To commemorate the blog reinstatement, I bring you . . . Washington, DC I took the red eye last night to DC. I flew Virgin America and I felt like I was walking into a night club when I saw the blue and purple lighting throughout the [View Full Entry]

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I had a really long, detailed entry about my adventures in some of the ports thus far, but my computer died whilst writing them, and lost everything. And considering how little time I actually get to be online or to write entries, I didn't have the energy to do it again. I just have to say that Cozumel is my favorite port so far, Nassau is outrageously and unnecessarily expensive almost everywhere, and port manning is the most pointless and annoying part of my job. Every third cruise, I have to be trapped on board in the event of an emergency [View Full Entry]

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I'm in Miami now, but I started this entry when I was still in Freeport, so I thought I'd post. Since I've been so off the grid here in Freeport (this is the first day I've gone on the internet since I got here a week ago), allow me to give you a brief rundown of what I've been up to. It hasn't been very exciting or varied, but I'll give you the highlights. The dancers (or "twirlies" as the tech crew affectionately(?) labels them) arrived on board about three days before we left Charleston and I've been slowly getting to [View Full Entry]

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So we leave for the Bahamas tomorrow morning. We have a curfew to be back on the ship by 1:00am, so I'm assuming we're leaving port in the wee small hours of the morning. I don't know what I'm going to do tonight. Since I'm still recovering from illness, I can't go too crazy. The last thing I want to be is sick in the humid and oppressively hot Freeport, so it'd be wise to take it easy and work on that recovery. But at the same time, it's my last night in South Carolina. I should enjoy it. I'll figure [View Full Entry]

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Today I went all around downtown Charleston. I also did quite a bit of shopping, but the majority of my day was spent taking pictures. Here are some images of the quintessential Charleston. There were quite a few church steeples poking out of the treetops. I had to contain myself not to take pictures of them all, but that image seems to encapsulate Charleston, or at least that's the impression I'll always have stuck in my head. And then there are a few pictures I just needed to take. Someone named Calhoun has a statue dedicated to him. It looks like [View Full Entry]

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So here's a good idea of what most of my days are filled with. There's my cabin. And the bathroom. The shipping yard which rests just on the edge of the getto. If you look off into the distance, you can see a MacDonald's. It's very exciting. And the theatre/construction zone that I've been working in for the last two weeks. They loaded all of the beds from the guest cabins into the upper balcony area while the cabins were being renovated. Suddenly I was reminded of the story of the Princess and the Pea. [View Full Entry]

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I didn't realize how much I love driving until I went without a car for a few weeks. I did end up getting today off and I did end up renting a car and oh my god, it's so wonderful. I drove all around downtown today (pictures are on their way once I find a fast enough connection to upload them. And just the act of driving my way from Enterprise to downtown felt so liberating. It's a ten minute drive, but I found my solitude again. Suddenly I was on my time again. I had nowhere to be and no [View Full Entry]

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