Cruising the Web and the Sea

I woke up this morning to a flooded inbox. You see, I receive email notification when someone posts so that I can pick up the thread of conversation. This morning, I received notification that a cruise line whose reputation I will not tarnish publicly defaced this blog with the online equivalent of grafiti: a tag of its name hyperlinked to its site. This has forced me to moderate the blog. I have effaced that which I do not endorse puzzeled at how unthinking the perpetrator considers the American public. Why would a company plaster its information on a site which points out how glaciers are melting (in large part due to cruises of the region). I have been on a cruise. We saw many Greek Isles. They are beautiful. I had a good time. At the age of 15, I had no notion of the environmental impact of my actions. I urge my readers to be more wise than I. Why get on a ship so big, so stable, so polluting that it seems no different than a four or five star hotel on land. If you prefer urbanized land, stay there. If you enjoy the open water, paddle or sail.