I have only traveled on one cruise. I took Norweigan Cruise Line to the Carribbean and Mexico. The ship was incredible and the food was even better. I have heard that Royal Caribbean is the best cruise line and Norweigan is the 2nd best, but they are both owned by the same company.

Where did you go in the Caribean Kimberly?

The Port of Houston is now hosting its first regularly-scheduled cruise ship. I believe it's one of the Norwegian fleet, goes to the normal Caribbean ports of call, Cayman, Cozumel, etc.

I had a great trip to the Cayman Islands a few years ago. Compliments of NEC Corp. What a great 10 days! I've never been on a cruise ship though my cousin has built quite a few of them (the Golden Odyssey, etc.).

I'd love to go on a cruise someday. But a luxury ship would bore me, I think. I can't make much of the idea of being pampered and having to wear smart clothes to dinner parties and all that. I'd feel out of place. But I'm thinking more along the lines of sailing. Big rolling waves and all that. Has anyone here done that? What's it like?

I crossed the Atlantic in a row boat, alone. I dunno if that counts. Actually after only a few miles, I left my boat. Why would I do a thing like that? Just being suicidal? I just wanna see what it's like to experience drowning? No. Dolphins. They came to me. We made friends. I rode them all the rest of the way. They fed me. And they were very affectionate. They taught me their language. We had an even better time together after we could really communicate. I do miss 'em dearly, especially Boopsie, Nawgah and Chowdry. What a buncha clowns. But they were so light-hearted, good-hearted....exceptionally penetrating intelligences.....they were on the beam. Night beams from the moon let go of our random free order. We moved with the celestial, we swam in those currents.

Stop that! I'm going to start laughing aloud and everyone else is asleep. But it's funny, because actually I speak dolphin language too, you know. I bet if you tell me what they told you, I'd figure out what they said. Here's one phrase a dolphin once taught me: erehT ecno saw a nam morf ainavlysnneP ni saxeT yrevE gninrom eh tnew otni nwot yb sub, reveN reve edam a ssuf, tpecca nehw a niatrec ssal, deraD llac mih yb eht eman fo taht egnarts ecalp saxeT.

well, they, uh, i mean with me, they didn't use backwards or forwards english. sorta squeaky staccato sounds with pure feeling. Boopsie really helped me pick it up. She would lie on her back and glide real lightly, kinda skim along the water surface in the groove of the waves. Meanwhile there I'd be on her stomach. She later told me that made it possible for me to put my ear over her heart. Chowdry said to me that by far the real learning, the best learning comes from the heart....and when that's going strong, it sets up a channel that crosses through any dimension and any barrier, any difficulty....something like how music is the universal language....Chowdry one time was tryin' to tell me that heartlove is the only true universal language....it's what makes music possible. So Boopsie had her heart channel open, and within a matter of seconds I started laughing because i knew then that it wasn't my ear that was listening to her heart, it was my heart that was listening to her heart. That's when i got their language real fast, like kids do when they're in a foreign land.

Yeah, well I studied at Dolpho University, and because of the whistling and weezing pronunciation, one writes their language as backwards English - can't believe you for one moment doubted my honesty!!! They tought me it with sign language. And they were nothing like your dolphins - none of this heart to heart stuff with those bastards. I mean did Poopsie and Cheddar ever give you the fin-in-the-air sign? Well, my dolpho teachers did. Said I was a crappy student and didn't belong there, and that I had to stop bothering them and return to where I came from, and leave them in peace. Then I listened to Mr. Weelittle's heart channel, and it said: 'All this learning and literacy is crap - go teach those who can't read at all to read their own language before you come here with your smart arse attitude and learn mine. You'll never truly understand it anyway, you're far too human, and far too stupid to realize just how stupid humans are.'

3:30 Got to go to bed and try to sleep. Wish it were day already.