Hi Masaki,

More details on my journal which I hope to post soon, but I got just a tad queasy on the first night out...was a regular seafarer after that! Did Bonine and the Seabands the first day. Our suite was in the center of the ship and I think it made all the difference. The Mariner is just a smooth vessel all around!

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends ~~M. Angelou~~