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Sailing the Queen Mary II
Vagabond Dispatches (Europe) Chip Walter Vagabond Dispatches (Europe) Chip Walter

Sailing the Queen Mary II

Dispatch XXVII

At 12:30 PM our Lyft driver zipped us to Brooklyn’s Cruise Terminal - Pier 12 where, with luck, we would eventually find ourselves in stateroom 5029 on deck 4 of the great ship. At least that’s what the Cunard paperwork told us would happen. Except when we arrived there were problems. Along side the Queen an ominously long line has formed and it didn’t not seem to be moving. “Computer issues” was the word we got as we joined the line.

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