Retaining the old, bringing the new
I guess I am getting old, as I am starting to appreciate stuff from the past much more than I used to.
The 'new me' flys into a place for a couple of days and then back to the office immediately(the 'old' me in my corporate job would be in a location for a week and I'd get a chance to enjoy the weekend whereever I was.
I had a trip out to the LA recently and I spent most of the day with the client and then went back to the hotel to do paperwork and retire. I was determined to do something touristic this time so I returned to The Queen Mary, where last year I spent the night as it also is a hotel. Since I arrived in the dark and left at 6AM, I didn't see much of the ship.
I was determined to put that right this time. Since I was flying out of Long Beach back to Boston(got to love JetBlue), I zipped down to the docks to lay may eyes on that mighty vessel once more. I first arrived in the US on her sister ship the Queen Elizabeth so I was very interested to see another Cunard ship as an adult.
What an experience, just the breeze across the deck was something to be amazed by. It got me to thinking what a treasure the ship is, I am so glad that the City of Long Beach bought it in 1971 as like most of the other ships of its time, it would have been scrapped.
In the sixties with the age of air travel, the ship became uneconomic to run even after starting to run cruises, that Cunard deciding to make smaller ships that were more entertainment centers than just elegant ships.
I am so glad that some historical things are retained, it just reminds me how grateful I should remain that I can experience both the old and new.
The 'new me' flys into a place for a couple of days and then back to the office immediately(the 'old' me in my corporate job would be in a location for a week and I'd get a chance to enjoy the weekend whereever I was.
I had a trip out to the LA recently and I spent most of the day with the client and then went back to the hotel to do paperwork and retire. I was determined to do something touristic this time so I returned to The Queen Mary, where last year I spent the night as it also is a hotel. Since I arrived in the dark and left at 6AM, I didn't see much of the ship.
I was determined to put that right this time. Since I was flying out of Long Beach back to Boston(got to love JetBlue), I zipped down to the docks to lay may eyes on that mighty vessel once more. I first arrived in the US on her sister ship the Queen Elizabeth so I was very interested to see another Cunard ship as an adult.
What an experience, just the breeze across the deck was something to be amazed by. It got me to thinking what a treasure the ship is, I am so glad that the City of Long Beach bought it in 1971 as like most of the other ships of its time, it would have been scrapped.
In the sixties with the age of air travel, the ship became uneconomic to run even after starting to run cruises, that Cunard deciding to make smaller ships that were more entertainment centers than just elegant ships.
I am so glad that some historical things are retained, it just reminds me how grateful I should remain that I can experience both the old and new.
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