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Cruisin' (Mostly)

February 17-21, 2023: Sail Across the Sun Cruise.  This Sixthman cruise, hosted by the band Train, takes place every other year, sailing from Miami to the Caribbean for what amounts to a four day music festival. We've been there since the beginning (back when it was the VH1 Cruise). It's an easy gig for the most part. Not so easy was the travel! We were scheduled for an 11 AM flight to South Florida, and due to interstate closures, parking bullshit, airport TSA bullshit, and whatever, I almost missed the flight--like I came within about 15 minutes of them shutting the airplane door and me not making it to the boat. I was almost in tears. It was awful. We landed, and this dumbass was pretending he had some kind of medical emergency or something so that he could get off the plane before everybody else. The aisle filled up before he could get out, though, and he and several band members traded verbal jabs until we could all go our separate ways. Yacht Rock was scheduled to play th...