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Is it just me or have cruise companies had bad luck over the last few years? Strange diseases, attacks by pirates, and now you can add fires to the list*. Doesn’t sound like fun to me. “Cruise” might overtake “Amtrak” as the travel word with the most negative connotation. When I hear Amtrak I immediately imagine a train careening off the tracks in the middle of the Arizona desert. Doesn’t that happen every few years? And yet, I’ve never ridden Amtrak and only gone on a day cruise off the coast of Florida.
*The use of “eyed” is what my old professor Dick Streckfuss called headline-eese. It’s a catch-all word used when a writer can’t come up with anything good. It’s also handy because it’s only four characters. BTW: Writing an effective, concise headline isn’t easy.
Streckfuss was a great teacher and also a goof. Once, on the way back from a field trip, he systematically plugged half a dozen parking meters ahead of the meter maid trailing behind us. I think it amused him more than it did us, which made it even more endearing.
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