Show HOME AGAIN AFTER A FINE VOYAGE this is is the last in in a series series of articles by josephine dames daines on her visit to europe last lant summer sailing hailing time was one a m but dimou not one of our oui 11 1 weary group p of young people were in in bed when the U S washington left the le awre harbor the pilot ind arid tug boats slowly eased us out of this war torn harbor into the broad english channel before the lights were out of sight we were a all 11 sound asleep tomorrow we w would 0 uld see land again on our stop at cobb ireland even though the next time I 1 go to europe im really leally planning ing on it the air air trip is as cheap as the boat trip I 1 would hate to miss miss the I 1 opportunity of another boat voy age ge with the help of sea sick preventive pills I 1 seemed to make a good sailor however during our six six day journey quite a few people seemed to enjoy hanging over the tail rail to feed the fish during the days on the boat we I 1 aldom saw our cabin on D deck the bottom one for passengers we visited in in the lounges danced I 1 end saw movies movies during the few I 1 hours of sunshine we had on the 4 home bound journey we walked out on oil the decks took pictures and played placed around we had meetings again got our expense accounts ready for presentation and talked of what we would do when we got home on halloween our oui group had a costume party in our weirdly made up costumes costume we did a snake nake dance through the boat to remind others of the holiday our three square american meals a nay day took up a lot of time its no wonder isyou if you could see how low much ve ire ate there were no extra charges on meals and so the sky was MS the limit our walta s saoi 1 caught on he always need to ask us what we wanted ile he just brought 11 ought everything we would have eaten that good am ice cream for breakfast in in addition to dinner inner and supper if they would h have ave s served arved it on sunday in in addition to catholic mass there were non sectarian sec orvices rv 1 vices ices conducted by a protestant pio minister the rhe washington was no lie luxury liner but just a one class bont boat and inthout a swimming pool in out our abin we had no porthole poi thole 0 or r outside t view there were just jus t four plain plain lockers and four plain bunk beds with eme emergency agency cups at the head aaa it was nice C e and we li liked k ed the washington ashington the I 1 he last art day on the boat the run pull shone one and we could cou id go outside without so go many ma Y coats on at the back ack end of the agn e boat we watched th trail left in 1 n the he water as oui on roat at headed toward the united states 1 as our trail left europe far ilind there were friends there we wondered if we would ver see again those countries had meaning to us now we just hink k of holland and wooden shoes or swiss s people and their tillers delers or the fins as all lap landers anders we thought of the people th ell selves es their farms factories towns ans and villages we could say we know knew them em now and loved them id i their countries the trail at this s end of the boat meant the i 1 closer ather end eald was taking us closer and to our homes es and the coun Y that 1 now meant much more moie to I 1 us ru then lt it e ver ever had in ln the past paa I 1 anat evering 8 we passed pa the nan A ladd la bigl t house and knew blat tl at jf gasn wasn far ar off L lie 8 da d eek next mo morning riling we were on of oan before fore dawn daw to get a view I 1 the e manhattan t ed skyline lttie against a red cloudy sky the to VL I 1 of liberty ty was right there fiere welcome to conle us as we slowed down LI lm OB 6 ase UP P the river and dock 07 67 balz ba nes 3 adani 1 customs officials rials and se inspection completed the morning it was a 9 feeling to be going through that in our own I 1 country even though agh I 1 had dutch bulbs to worry orry about after about two ho hours ur m the whole process was complete and we knew it i until wed be headed heade d i ile be lor long ig now homes and families ju just st to our being in america meant home we I 1 I 1 knew words could not express 1 our I u r thankfulness that we would soon so 0 n be with out families and living in in the I 1 the most wonderful country world |