"The World" cruise ship leaves Portland

[JBubble]

I saw a thread on this a couple weeks ago but I can't find it now.

There's a great video in the article showing the ship turning around in the Willamette River.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/48610387.html

[superjohn]

Anthony Bourdain wrote an article about a stay on that ship that sounded alternatively like it'd be a blast, or it'd suck to be cooped up with so many pretentious snobs. It's collected in his book, "The Nasty Bits".

Cool boat nonetheless, though I'm a bigger fan of The Maltese Falcon

[River]

Seeing as how you can "rent" a place for a while, it might be fun to get in on a leg of that trip.  Maybe traveling down the coast of Italy...