there is a part of me that yearns for the experience of a cruise ship but everything I hear about them is, like, the staff gets paid $2 an hour and the ship pollutes like a city ten times its size and everyone gets COVID and norovirus and everywhere is Disneyland level crowded with assholes

but the part of my brain that wants to run around casinos at 3 AM is activated by the idea of being on a really big boat all day

the fun answer is to do an "expedition cruise" that's on a smaller and more rugged ship, and the slightly more affordable answer is to ask "is there any actual reason this needs to be in the water" and book at an all-inclusive resort that gives me the same "the Superstructure will care for your needs now" feeling with up to 30% fewer human rights violations

or I might just cognitive-dissonance my way onto something with a name like Monstrosity Of The Seas that has an onboard ice rink and rock climbing wall

I mean I'm not doing any of it right now, but, you know, if the new job works out and actually lets me take PTO eventually

Fun fact there are luxury trains that are just the train version of a cruise