Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

I (don’t) Love New York

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Do not get me wrong – I love going to New York to visit my friends and family, and I visit a few times every year, but man, I cannot stand that city.  Please let me explain.

My New T-Shirt

My New T-Shirt

I was in New York City the past four days visiting friends from college after spending the night on Long Island Saturday with my Grandma.  I was sleeping on the sleep sofa of my friend’s, Dave and Dave (easily distinguishable for this post as DK and Ddubs), sofa.  Their apartment, which is actually surprisingly nice for a (relatively) cheap New York apartment, is on the sixth floor of a building that is next door to the Four Seasons Hotel in Midtown.  With a location like that, you would think that the normal New York “quirks” (you know, towers of trash bags on the sidewalks at night, trucks and buses honking at all hours of the night, etc.) wouldn’t be as prevalent.  I was wrong.

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Freestyle Dining!

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Today we will again be focusing on the promises made at NCL.com regarding Freestyle Crusing, this time looking at one of the more important aspects of a cruise: Eating.

This Pig Had No Idea What it Was in For

This Pig Had No Idea What it Was in For

The food on the ship was by far the weakest of any of the cruises that anyone in our party had been on before.  While some items were quite yummy (avacados, pretzel rolls, hot dog sausage, pig’s ears), for the most part, the food sucked.  Let’s see what was promised to us on the Norwegian Website…

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Freestyle Cruising Is Always Awesome (except for when its not)

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

For my first post regarding the cruise that I just returned home from, I would like to focus on Freestyle Cruising. “What”, you may be asking yourself right now, “is Freestyle Cruising?”. Let me enlighten, courtesy of Norwegian Cruise Line’s website, www.ncl.com:

With Norwegian Cruise Line, Freestyle Cruising® is all about flexibility and freedom. Freedom from stress. Freedom from schedules. Freedom to create your own vacation.

Sounds great right?  The ship that we went on, the NCL Spirit, had Freestyle Cruising.  I thought it would be interesting to delve a little bit deeper into what exactly Freestyle Cruising is vs. what NCL claims it is.

Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line

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Paging Sherrif John Stone

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Long Story Short: I’m going on a cruise over New Years and am trying to sneak on copious amounts of liquor. I have many ideas.

Short Story Long: Over the past couple of years, I have been adopted, I guess you can say, by my friend Mark’s family.  If they were Jewish, they would say that I am Mishbucha.  His grandparents invited me to Italy with them over Thanksgiving last year and earlier this year, for his dad  Mark Sr.’s, 50th birthday, I was invited to ride upon a Mardi Gras float with the family.  There was also a celebration in Atlanta with Mark Sr. during the SEC championship last year that I am not allowed to discuss in a public forum, but that is neither here nor there.  So this holiday season, I have once again been invited to travel with the family, this time on a Western Carribean cruise, on the NCL – Norwegian Spirit.

Our Ship

Our Ship

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