One Last Hurrah! (And on a Budget No Less!)

Greetings and Salutations!
So
Been a tough couple of months… I mean for a while I was cooking w/gas so to speak… International Man of Mystery and Vagabond on The Loose…

Well today I said “Fuck It”
Went back onto GovX dot com
(I make nuzzing for the mention)

Now GovX is a website that one you proof your bona-fides, you can get some pretty good discounts. This is where I found the “Heroes Sail Free” on Margaritaville At Sea.

Now if you go to YouTube and put “cheapest cruise ever” you’ll get as the second choice this fucked up gem:

Now these assholes sort of annoy me as I’ve done two cruises on with the Margarita Crew as well as the other ‘reviewers’ who’ve trashed it…

Now the thing about it is it -is- cheap AF.
AND
Because of it having a BIG play with veterans and Active Duty personnel, well… lets just say there hasn’t been on the two cruises I’ve taken ANY chimpouts nor Australopithecine Shenanigans.

In fact while I was on board, the first being the Bahamas Cruise on an older ship out of Cape Canaveral, and the second on a Mexican bound trip on their newest barge, the thing that got me was that nearly everyone on board was a Veteran or Active Duty on Leave.

I mean on one of the cruises, I saw this black dude… mad gangbanger looking kid… waaay younger than me… however
He had a 4th ID patch on his carry bag. That’s the “4 LTs Pointing North” patch.

I went over, said “Yo man! Where and when?” He turned and looked at my overweight ancient whyttedude ass, and I could tell, he was like “WTF!?!” until I rolled up my left shirtsleeve, and showed my Rakkasan Torii tat. It/he went from ‘potential hostile’ to “Let me buy you a drink muddafucka!” and we hung out at the bar and pool on the regular. His boys were also all vets, so we had quite a bit of fun.

The second trip, I went to a “Meet the Veterans” thing that they have on all the cruises, where I met a 1SGT from 75th Ranger Batt on his first cruise, and we’ve exchanged numbers so as to possibly meet up again. His wife was awesome, and we traded stories about Iraq and Affy as we’d both ‘chewed the same dirt’ if at different times…

To give you an idea of -how cheap-?

Yep.
$117 per person
Total for just the cabin was $234 for a 4 night 5 day trip.
God-DAMNED!!!
Then, since my travelling companion isn’t ‘locked in yet’, I went back to check on ‘upgrading’ from the smol interior cabin I usually have. The interior cabins as far as I’m concerned are fantabulous, as I only spend time there crashing out in between partying.

However, I wanted to see what I could upgrade to.

Now I’m not sure, but I think the website ‘glitched’
It offered me a 4th Level Balcony Suite for only an additional $62 per person!!!! Now if I had booked a Balcony Suite to begin with?

Yeeeeeeeeeeeah
So when presented with an upgrade to a Balcony Suite for $124 more? Yer God-Damned SKIPPY I jumped on it.

And the reason I think it was a glitch?

I bought and paid for the whole thing… total cost?
$358 for a 5 day 4 night Cruise to Mexico.
All food included.

As I was saying, I paid for it, closed out, and then went back IN to the website. THIS TIME the upgrade was $262 PER PERSON to get a similar balcony suite.

No idea how that happened, but for less than 4 bills, leaving out of Tampa, on their newest ship, with a sundeck/private balcony???

OH FUCK TO THE YES MOTHERFUCKERS!

And as far as booze?
Well… guess I’ll play my “Load the Isopropyl bottles with Everclear” and I’ll be good. I mean it did work on the last trip.

So anyone wants to join, we got about 23 days +/- if you’re a Vet.
Considering how shitty the world it turning, I figure make the most of it before it really catches fire amiright?

So More Later
Big Country