Trans-Atlantic Container Ship Travel

Day Three: Having never been out to open sea before, at some point I expected to emerge from my cabin to panoramic blue skies filled with armadas of puffy cumulus clouds combining with the bracing aroma of salt coming from the slight lapping of the otherwise glassy Atlantic waters to descend upon our small party [...]
Road, Trip

Things are getting bad: Family problems, money, the itch, again. Should Manny Santiago end it now or revisit The Trip, and try to work it all out?
Things To Do To Amuse Yourself Until You Die

I woke up in the middle of the night thinking it was raining and the clothes I had hanging outside to dry were getting wet. I sat up in bed and, listening to the stillness, I heard the definite pitter-patter of raindrops on the window, the trees, the pavement below. Yet when I went up [...]
