Day 2005: 5 Minute Freewrite: Wednesday - Prompt: ocean travel

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Prompt: ocean travel

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I love this:

as a child, many times, I was on the "terrace" of the boats that often left from my city to the island of Margarita, and you could see when on the way we were passing near some other boats and how the camaraderie was seen and how among passengers we greeted each other.

You remind me of a song I love -

I have never been aboard a steamer
I am just content to be a dreamer
Even if I could afford a steamer
I will take the ferry boat every time

I love to ride the ferry
Where music is so merry
There's a man who plays the concertina
On the moonlit upper deck arena

While boys and girls are dancing
While sweethearts are romancing
Life is like a mardi-gras
Funiculi, funicula

Happy, we cling together
Happy, we sing together
Happy, with the ferry boat serenade

I am happy, very, very happy
When we're on the ferry
The music is so merry
There's a man who plays the concertina
On the moonlit upper deck arena, arena

I love to ride the ferry
Where music is so merry
There's a man who always plays the concertina, oh my
On the moonlit upper deck arena, by and by

While the boys and girls are dancing, oh dancing
While, while the sweethearts are romancing
Life is like a mardi-gras
Funiculi, funicula

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Oops, I meant to post that at your freewrite, not here!
mea culpa

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Ok, I really need to gain access to PeakD so I can upvote/commet there.
I love this, @myjob.

He said why would anyone do that (travel by ship) when they could jump on a plane and be there in a few hours.
This is one of the problems with people today, everyone wants things fast. If people could jump on the slow ship and cross the ocean, they might find out that slowing down can be a good thing.

You remind me of a Henry James novel. In the late 1800s, ocean travel was the only way to Europe, and his characters made a surprising number of jaunts in "Portrait of a Lady," but they never complained of "jet lag," and I wonder now what ship travelers called it when the time change disrupted their sleep (it's seven hours ahead in Europe, more or less).....

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That is a good question, maybe as the ship traveled on, their sleep habits slowly changed. That is my guess.

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