"    Anything worthwhile you do in this world involves hard work and a lot of boredom ... (g)o sit on your thumb, Henry Thoreau, and leave me alone ..."

Careful, Garrison.  In a couple places you're beginning to sound a tad bit, well, *conservative* in outlook.  ;-)

You also didn't tell us how much that cruise ship voyage ballooned your climate-killing carbon footprint for the year, and what that 
suggests about the morality of tourism.  :-/