At the moment (Friday morning), we are about 400 miles from Los Angeles, just west of Baja. Land is periodically visible from the stateroom window, which I find somewhat reassuring, because the water between us and the land is moving more than it has all week. I first noticed it at 4:00 am, when I woke up to find that the ship had acquired a new rhythm - shimmy-shimmy-shimmy-shimmy, followed by up/down-up/down-up/down. It was pitch dark in the room, which left me with no other sensory input than shimmy-shimmy-shimmy-shimmy, up/down-up/down-up/down for about 2 hours. It's not making any of us sick, but I'm about ready to get into a motionless hotel room for a while. The swimming pools have turned into wave pools this morning, and it's cloudy and kind of cold - we're running almost directly into a 25-knot breeze (with the ship's own speed, we're getting nearly 45-knot winds onboard, so most people are staying inside. The captain is promising that things will flatten out later - but he didn't qualify "later", so I guess he could be referring to the period immediately after we tie up in LA.
A good day to do some packing. We have signed up for the "walk-off" disembarkation process, which means that we get off the ship around 8 am tomorrow (more time to drive home). It also means that we're absolutely on our own as regards luggage - if we can't drag it off by ourselves, it's staying here. We have with us the following:
- 4 standard rolling suitcases of various sizes
- 1 rolling garment bag (which I didn't realize was a rolling bag until this morning)
- 2 canvas duffel bags
- 1 really heavy backpack (storage for the laptop, the DVD collection, and the physics book)
Our goal for today is to reduce the number of rolling bags by at least one, by means of cramming more of our possessions into fewer of the suitcases, so that we can pack the smallest rolling bag into the largest and take them off as a single bag. I think we're going to make it.
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