North to Alaska!

Got your heart racing a bit, didn't I. It's not on the books yet, according to Roger Naber, but it is a great idea, isn't it? For those of us who love to sail on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, taking a regular voyage to Alaska just doesn't fill us with the anticipation we're used to. Somewhere in the Caribbean on my virgin cruise in 2004, I floated the rumor that we’d be sailing the Pacific in a couple of years or so. And look what happened with that manifestation. In 2006, we set sail out of San Diego and have been every October since. (Hmmm, maybe I'm onto something. Did you hear about my new book on manifesting that's coming out next year? Yeah, publishers even started a bidding war. Heh.) More recently, maybe in the Pacific, then again coulda been the Caribbean (I was there, so I can’t remember), I mentioned that we’d be sailing by some glaciers every five years. I figure by then, a lot of us won’t mind missing the sun and wind for a chance at drinking in Mother Nature’s majesty with other like-minded folk. For a change-up, I “heard” it would be a combo Blues Cruise/Film Fest, with some herbology and hydroponics workshops thrown in with the cuisines and the photogs. And I suspect more than a few of you will agree that folks like Dick Waterman could fill us up with memories morning, noon and night and still not satiate us. Screening films on the Blues Cruise isn't a new thing, of course. But seems like new bluesish documentaries keep cropping up. Maybe we'd have the at-sea premiere of Pocket Full of Soul, featuring such LRBC veterans as James Cotton, Magic Dick, Rick Estrin, Mark Hummel, Charlie Musselwhite, Lee Oskar and Kim Wilson. As long as I’ve got my wish list out, can we crooze southward through the Panama Canal too?