Cruise ships: disgusting and revolting

We've had friends try to convince us that cruise ships are wonderful, but we just keep running into these kinds of stories (more and more in the last several years).

Sorry, but it only takes one story of vomit (and there are plenty) to make me wonder just how well anyone cleans up the nooks and crannies in a cruise ship. I mean, there are police cars that always stink after one drunk vomits in them and they can never get rid of that smell!

You have to be old, but does anyone remember the Saturday Night Live skit about the cleaning people putting the nice paper wrappers on each and every toilet seat in a hotel/motel?

Cruise hell: 'sewage running down walls and savages fighting over dwindling food supplies'

Guess who's had 16 vacations in 3 years (so far)?

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First Lady accused of spending $10m in public money on her vacations

The Obamas' summer break on Martha's Vineyard has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple arrived four hours apart on separate government jets.

But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances.

White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10million of U.S. taxpayers' money on vacations alone in the past year.

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I'm here and you're not :-)

Check out the natural hot springs grotto at Two Bunch Palms!

Here on business all week, so I may slip a little from my usual blogging habits...just so you all know :-)

Ahhhh...nice to get away, but sure miss the cat!!!

Real people say "death ray"

But THEY say: "solar convergence phenomenon":
Vegas Hotel Pool 'Death Ray' Burns Tourists

First private lawsuit against ObamaCare filed in Mississippi on Good Friday!

Liberty in Action

Keep hope alive...

Note: This is the first day of a vacation at Two Bunch Palms in Desert Hot Springs. We first discovered this place when we watched the Robert Altman movie where it was featured in a scene where Tim Robbins and his date escaped Hollywood to dine on the patio while a beautiful couple slipped, naked, into the natural Hot Spring grotto...



We've been coming ever since :-)

(My husband just asked, in horror: "Are you BLOGGING???"

I asked him how he knew that I was and he said he heard me typing...I asked: "So is it against the law to type now???"

And so it goes :)

Is there any stimulus money that wasn't misdirected?

Government Workers Using Stimulus Funds for California Vacation

A HELL of a trip

These top four headlines in the center of The Drudge Report today just have to make you wonder why you should ever spend your hard-earned money on traveling (not to mention all the OTHER reports about stranded passengers and lost luggage). And hey: What about all the filthy sicko cruise ships out there where people either get sick, fall overboard, or DIE?


Sewage flows down aisles of trans-Atlantic flight


Computer Failure Stalls United Airlines Flights


SFO nightmare -- 400 stuck on plane 7 hours


Passengers Spend 5 Hours On Plane At LaGuardia


My first lesson was in an early episode of Saturday Night Live in the 1970's: Just because someone puts a white paper strip of approval around the toilet seat does not necessarily mean a damn thing folks!

My second lesson came when a boyfriend thought a trip to Tijuana would be a nice Valentine's Day gift -- NOT. He hadn't planned on spending any money on a hotel or motel (not him) but did take a look at one when he felt too tired for the long drive home. The pube on the sheet gave him enough energy for the drive.

Think of just how clean your house actually is after living in it for 20 years. That's how clean all those tiny little hotel rooms are. The cruise ships have to recycle your air and water somehow--yuck.

I'm stayin' home and saving my money for a trip to Wyoming.