“I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It’s one of those places I’d always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.”–Tony Parsons

No driving, no Priceline, just a three-day cruise to The Bahamas on the Carnival Sensation. I’d been promising the girl-child a cruise for quite a while, but she didn’t have a passport and I could swear that I’d heard you need a passport or passport-card now. ...