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They Just Keep Making Them Bigger and Bigger
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1956, I did and one stint was on this! USS Pawcatuck, AO-108, fueling the Randolph and a Destroyer at the same time. Great if you want to smell like diesel fuel in your clothes! Even the food smells like diesel! Other than that little issue, not bad. Oh, sea sickness, just ignore it and it goes away!
Cruse ships, they can keep them, I was never a city dweller!
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I have a briefcase that I had on the boat. If I want to be reminded of what it smelled like on board I can just open the briefcase, almost 50 years later. The smell of diesel, seawater and sweat lingers for a long time.1956, I did and one stint was on this! USS Pawcatuck, AO-108, fueling the Randolph and a Destroyer at the same time. Great if you want to smell like diesel fuel in your clothes! Even the food smells like diesel! Other than that little issue, not bad. Oh, sea sickness, just ignore it and it goes away!
Cruse ships, they can keep them, I was never a city dweller!
Only went on one cruise - three days down the Yangtze River to the Three Gorges dam. We walked on that dam - darn big dam. Lotsa water on one side, not much water on the other. We were visiting our son in Shanghai. What an amazing place. More modern high rises than I've ever seen in one place and more going up all the time.