Sep 2, 2005 - Getting there: the freighter trip

The Freighter Journey - Lots of water.... Lots of curry! The following is very long - but many of you were as fascinated as we were about the "freighter cruise" so we have tried to capture the experience as best we could: Leaving Montreal: "The best laid plans..." certainly applies to traveling by freighter. The tickets said we would leave "on or about" August 18th. They insisted we have our motor home on the docks Tuesday, August 16th morning to be loaded onto a "flat rail" which it was - but we ended up boarding on August 21 with the...