Don't call it a comeback....

Well, I'm back in Ohio.

My travel day began at 5:30am in Brisbane on Saturday, March 10 and now I arrived home (which is my parent's place until I find a new job/apartment) at 9pm, Saturday, March 10th. Amazingly, I've pulled off a 30 hour travel day, all in the same day. My 13-hour pan-Pacific flight landed in LA 5 hours before it took off from Brisbane. Isn't the Dateline a wonderful thing.

For the moment, I'm enjoying unlimited internet that doesn't cost me a ton of money and the fact that I can stretch out without being in somebody's way. Not to mention, this place doesn't pitch or rock at all. Nice to be in a home that doesn't move. I have about a thousand thoughts and stories from my final cruise that I'd like to share, but I'm a little tired now (and I didn't sleep at all the night before my plane flights) and I'll save that for tomorrow when I'm better rested.

To the Star crew....love ya, miss ya, wish you were here.

peace
steve

ps. who turned off the heat around here?

Free at last!

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last!

I will be leaving the beautiful white (old, weeping) lady, the Pacific Star, my home away from home in the early morning hours of March 10 in Brisbane.

My plane leaves Brisbane at 12:10pm and 13 hours later, I'll be landing in Los Angeles at 7am. After customs and what not, I board to plane to Detroit at 11am and land at 6:30pm. (all times local)

There is a long story to tell about this cruise and even just the last five hours prior to my posting this, but I'll save that for another post. I don't want to buy another internet card before I leave and have less the $3 left on this one which will be needed to check email for the remaing 3+ days.

I've been shown the way to go home! I'm comin' home Ohio....snow drifts and all.....and me with my 4 month tan. Ha! Love it!

Dinner in the steak house tonight to celebrate for Rich and I....Jerry may actually be staying an extra week so we won't have to see him in the airport at all. And Rich and I are on the same plane. weeeeeeee. We were jumping around dancing and singing earlier today. It's great. I need to shut up and sign off.

PEACE

Show me the way to go home....

Well, there's a lot going on about the ship this week and I'm pretty sure, none of it means that much to me anymore. We've got a new cruise director on who is really shaking things up, hopefully for the better but I'll never know. 2/3 of the production is changing and the trio is going home too. That's right friends, I'm coming home. Don't have all the details yet, but I'll proabably post that in a blog later in the week. For now, let me just leave you with this. Rich pulled me out of the shower the other day as JAWS was playing on our TV to listen to this song. We laughed our asses off and have been singing it ever since. Enjoy.

Show me the way to go home
I'm tired and I wanna go to bed
I had a little drink about an hour ago
And it went straight to my head
Where ever I may roam
Over land or sea or foam
You can always hear me singing this song
Show me the way to go home!

cheers