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Comfort Crash Course, Day 5: Defining Comfort (or, The Great Shift)
Since my first Comfort Crash Course post, I’ve been bombarded with questions from colleagues, naturally curious about my life here aboard the ship.
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Comfort Crash Course, Day 6: Consumption (or, The Comfort of Luxurious...
Packing up one’s life to travel the world for a year and a half is a fantastic way to experience the great malleability of “necessity” and “luxury.”
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Comfort Crash Course, Day 8: Private Life (or, Why the Couch Is More...
“If you have to summarize it in one sentence,” Bill Bryson writes in At Home, “you could say that the history of private life is a history of getting comfortable slowly.”
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Comfort Crash Course, Day 10: Beauty and Time (or, The Pursuit of Pretty...
This ship is a marvelous place to give in to one’s sense of wonder and fascination. I think I’ve now come to understand why the Roman goddess of love
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Comfort Crash Course, Day 12: Words of Comfort (or, Too Sick to Read Anything...
Twelve days I’ve been on the ocean now. Without a hint of nausea, I was beginning to get cocky. But today it hit. I’m finally seasick. Really. Seasick.
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Comfort Crash Course, Day 13: Values (or, Why We Don’t Always Do What We Know...
“I wish I flew.” A few days ago, bathing happily as a clam in the plethora of pretty moments offered by freighter travel, these are words I would never have expected to come out of my mouth.
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Comfort Crash Course, Day 15: Control (or, Why Waiting for a Late Bus Feels...
Remember that monkey I wrote about in my first Comfort Crash Course post? The one who taught me the neurological function behind my cravings?
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Comfort Crash Course, Day 16: Civilization (or, The End is Near…)
As I write, the ship is tugging ever so slowly through the canals of Rotterdam’s colossal port. Covering more than 100 square kilometers, it is the largest port in Europe.
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Comfort Crash Course: The End
Until today I’ve hardly had a moment to think back on the journey I’ve just left behind. It would have been one thing to arrive back on land after 16 days at sea and find myself in the familiarity of...
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(Finally!) The Comfort Crash Course Bibliography
I’ve received several requests from readers for a bibliography of all the texts I read while at sea.
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