Cargo

This is slow travel, an Atlantic crossing the old way. No phone, internet, ice sculptures or dinner show with comic host. This is an account of what occurs when Jack convinces Meridith, instead of flying, to take a cargo ship home from Europe.

She didn't know what clothes to wear. He said it didn't matter, they weren't working their way, they were riding. They had books to read, the ship's officers and crew to meet, and a lot of sea to see on their way to America.

The journey begins in Rome I...