I had hit absolute bottom and was both mentally, and physically exhausted. Then I remembered an expression I heard once. '"Get busy living or get busy dying'."
I was tired of acting like I was already dead.
"Hey, boss. I need a vacation," I said as I marched into his office.
"When and how long?" So we discussed vacation options. He and his wife had been on 12 ocean cruises; some lasting as long as three weeks. He convinced me that on a ship in the middle of some big body of water, where, when you looked around, all you saw was more water, you could spend days doing nothing.
Two weeks later I was on my first ever ocean cruise. I sold Carol's car in order to pay for it, but what the hell.
I drove to Galveston on departure day. It was the first time I had seen a cruise ship up close. Tha
