Passengers finally escaped the disabled Carnival cruise ship Triumph and were on the move Friday: some checked into hotels while others hopped on buses or jumped on charter flights home after five numbing days at sea on a cruise liner paralyzed by an engine-room fire. See More

Personally, I don’t like cruises.  I refer to them as shot clock vacations.  You get to a port, where you may be having a great time, but you’re always looking at your watch or asking what time it is.  Why?  Because the ship will leave without you.  They have a schedule, something I rebel against […]

Close call for the more than 4,000 people who were on the Costa Concordia cruise ship when it hit a rock while traveling around the Italian coast.  The captain of the shipFrancesco Schettino has since been arrested o suspicion of causing the death and charges that he did not wait for the passengers to get off […]