North To Alaska

James Lileks has just completed a week long family reunion cruise to Alaska, and as usual, it makes for some pretty good reading. The first installment is here, and the second here. The series will continue all week at The Bleat. Based on the first two installments it wasn't the trip of a lifetime as he might have hoped.

An excerpt from Day 1:

The sight of the fellow passengers was quite remarkable; if you could sum it up, you’d have to say this is a boat full of small whales looking to catch sight of a larger one. Everyone waddles to and fro, slowly, panting with the effort of transporting the stored energy of previous meals to the location of the next one.