It's been a superlative vacation this past week and my experiences therein have been quite interesting to say the least. For anyone contemplating a vacation, who has the money and about a week to kill, I'd say a cruise is very good choice for the money. Room and board is covered and about 90% of what you are going to do is covered. I'll have to supply all the pertinent details in a later entry however, as almost 5 nights of straight partying tends to take its toll on a old guy like me and I'm still more or less in recovery mode.

I guess I do have time for one question, did Derrick get lucky cruising around in a care-free tropical paradise? The answer to that is an unsurprising "no", I didn't get lucky in the physical/sexual sense, but the journey did change me in some sort of deeper way, meaning although I didn't "score" sexually, somehow I still wound up feeling lucky anyway in an almost overwhemingly fortunate sort of way.

I promise to give more details when I have had the chance to regroup physically and mentally and if I'm feeling especially un-lazy I may even throw in a few pictures. For the meanwhile however I just wanted to let you, the few people who still peek in this blog from time to time, know that I've made it in one piece and relatively unscathed. Hopefully I'll have the full entry regarding my journey more sooner than later. So goodbye for now. I'll catch you on the flipside...