… well, went earlier today. We had nothing better to do, so we just got in the car and drove south.
Good Year-blimp! Yes, I’m easily impressed at times.
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We ended up in Long Beach, which housed the second largest port in the USA. We had no idea, so we were really shocked when we got there and saw nothing but container ships and enormous cranes as far as the eye could see. It was equally breathtaking and disturbing. The amount of pollution a harbor of that size emits is just ungraspable. No wonder the environment is going down the drain…
Something a little more cheerful caught my eye after we found our way away from the piers, I saw a giant old ship, that judging by its size must have been a transatlantic liner a long time ago. Somewhere in the back of my head I knew this ship from somewhere, and my immediate instinct was to disregard everything else and drive there. So we did.
The ship turned out to be the Queen Mary, a ship that in the thirties was a part of the White Star Line (Titanic, Olympic, Britannic). The reason I recognized it is because I had read about it while researching for a project only a few months earlier, because of it’s beautiful Deco interior which I had first noticed in a scene in Pearl Harbor years ago. So the chain of events that brought me to the ship was pretty far-fetched.
The ship has been docked for over 40 years and is now turned into a hotel. We never entered it, but as soon as my girlfriend arrives, we’re checking in!
As we are in the land of Bigs and Bizarres, having a giant ship isn’t enough. No hotel is complete without a russian submarine on the doorstep!
“Communism sank, but look what surfaced”. I’m speechless…