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...When I told my friends I was going to sea with a cargo ship, many of them said they had always wanted to try it but had no idea how to go about booking a trip. It's simple to inform yourself by Internet. The biggest online travel agency catering to cargo cultists is at freighterworld.com. You can reach the Egon Oldendorff line directly, at www.oldendorff.com. If you fancy French cuisine, CMA CGM is a major, French-owned freighter line operating transpacific routes, at www.cma-cgm.com. If you're a pre-cyber holdout, Cadogan Guides publishes a guidebook called Travel...
...dream of experiencing the life of the sea endured. So when a friend from my youth told me she was shipping out on a cargo boat and invited me to join her, I leapt at the chance. Davien, a native Manhattanite, was taking a sabbatical from a successful career in the entertainment industry to launch a new chapter of her life, aboard a 197-meter cargo ship. She embarked in Brooklyn and cruised halfway around the world, tracing the route her grandfather, a sea captain, followed 80 years ago. She hooked up with me in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, where...
...Pisa; the length from bow to stern is two proverbial American football fields, including the end zones. Davien and I were the only noncrew passengers aboard (supernumeraries, in the lingo of the sea), so we had a vast expanse of tranquil time and space at our disposal. On a cargo ship the entertainment is the ship and the sea?and the self. I've never had so much personal time. For anyone who is at all serious about reading or writing, traveling aboard a cargo ship such as the Ingrid Oldendorff is a dreamlike interlude of heavenly peace on earth...
...Most cargo ships that accept passengers have room for two to eight people; the Ingrid Oldendorff has a family suite, a living room and two sleeper cabins, each with its own head and shower en suite. Our cabin wasn't superluxurious, but it was as comfortable as most of the cruise-ship accommodations I've seen, attractively furnished and fitted out with a little fridge and a stereo. Davien and I swapped off using the lone desk, which had an inspiring view of containers piled high (and the sea beyond), until I discovered a boardroom by the captain's office...
...company insists that even senior VPs and executives are still expected to don the latest A&F fashions. Michael J. Skey ’03, who was recruited for a merchandising post at Abercrombie, describes the odd site of middle-aged men walking around in vintage cargo shorts and throwing around slang faster than Justin Timberlake at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. “It was disconcerting,” says Skey. “These guys were like my dad’s age,” he says. “It was just kind...