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Seattlest Pix 09Nov08
Seattlest Pix 09Nov09
Can't Miss It: Monday
Seattlest has a vision of our coming fall. We need to get away. We need some sun, some beaches and some babes. We need a cruise with our affably fat buddy. Man, everyone's so friendly on this cruise. Seems like every guy wants to get close to us - And we were worried about how we'd fit in with the cruising set. Pshaw! Wait, where are all the babes. We saw that bikini team out by the pool, but there seems to be an awful lot of man on this boat. Is this a gay cruise? Were we seriously duped into going on a gay cruise because we were rude to a travel agent? Yep. Gay cruise. Whoa is us. Oh, well, we'll just have to expand our social consciousness, embrace a little inner gay and eventually hook up with the hot (female) social director. Can't hold us down. Not in this terrible Cuba Gooding Jr. vehicle of life, anyway.
Queen City Cruise News is reporting that an all-gay Alaskan Cruise is scheduled out of Seattle for this summer, though:
Cruise Planners, Inc., an Albuquerque cruise company (which sounds a bit odd, but they do have a big salt-water aquarium there in the mountain desert), will sponsor the Alaskan Gold Rush Cruise, an all-gay big-ship charter cruise from Seattle this fall aboard Seattle-based Holland America's flagship, the ms Amsterdam.And when we say "big ship," we do mean big ship. The Amsterdam is expected leave from Terminal 30 in Seattle at 4pm on September 7 with 1380 guests -- all of them either gay or friendly enough to book passage on a cruise marketed exclusively to the gay market.
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With all those men in town at one time, it will be almost like the gold rush all over again for Ketchikan, eh? Come to think of it, maybe that's where Nordstrom learned to be stylish, selling all those shoes to the hopeful miners.
Good call - Boatloads of men heading from Seattle to Alaska is nothing new.
And women! My great-grandmother went there--part of her diary is online:
"We got up at five this morning....There are hundreds of people here dragging or carrying their supplies, all striving to reach the Klondike. Some have horses and still others have dog teams, but most of them act as their own horses. I have baked bread and biscuits and cake, and today yellow peas were the only thing I had.
—Inga Kolloen's diary, March 21, 1898, on the Dyea Trail