THERE ARE two ways, at least, to catch a ship. You can fly all night and arrive at the dock feeling like Long John Siiver when he’s hada tot 109 many, or you can ‘slip into town a few days early and have a pre-cruise . stay to burn off the jetlag: “The fact is, it's a long way from Vancouver to Florida, a joumey of at least nine hours and one plane change, and when you arrive there’s a three-hour time difference, meaning you have to be out | of bed and shipshape at 6 “am: Vancouver time in order: : to make breakfast. This is a- t cruise passa ‘see the air ticket just as a “means of connecting to the : “cruise ship, canny travellers . “know they only have to ask the travel agent to book the _ outward j journey a few days: ‘ahead which in effect gives them a free trip to Florida: “even, ify you're'on your own for hotels;: meals and a bucket: ’ . /aind spade." : "I decided, ‘sciflessly, to ‘go for. it. What 1 knew ‘about the: - "place you won't read in the - _ tourism brochures; meaning: that this town has a past. “Back in the-‘60s students: “gathered i in Fort Lauderdale * for spring break when the: David Wishart photo LITTLE INN hy the Sea owners Victor (left) and Uli offer the perfect way to start a Caribbean cruise. parties raged from one end of the beach to the other, and with 23 miles of sand, that’s a lot of whoopee. Fort Liquordale, they used _to call it. One day the town woke up and said enough. * Police were ordered to clamp ~ down on the slightest infrac-° tion involving the party: crowd, and getting the mes- sage they were not-wanted, | moved on to become some- « body else’s problem. Fort Lauderdale then set ' “about changing its image to © - something more sedate and the Jolly Roger Inn, once the party headquarters, was renamed and renovated. Local . lore says it took a week to take away the empties. | My digs wese the 30-room . Little Inn by the Seaafew . | miles north of the’airport at: “Lauderdale by the Sea. As the” _ hame suggests, it was right on .- “the beach, which was swept ’ / every morning by a municipal - tractor and most afterncons - . * by the inn’s owners, Victor - from Montreal and Uli from: - Hamburg —— fastidious fel- lows who came here with their wives in search of a bet- ter climate. I had thought of renting a . ear and exploring the area, the waterways, going diving, . playing golf, visiting muse-- ums and so on, but one look. at the beach, the pool. and a comfortable lounger and the" _ Car Was history. Relax, said Uli, you’re in Florida. . All too soon my ship came « | in, it was time to say goodbye _ to Victor and Uli; and take a cab the short distance to the dock. There I met a man who had been on a red-eye flight ” ’ from the West Coast. Awful, it was. Call this a vacation, he asked. No I don’t. Not doing i it” that way. if you go: Little Inn by the ; Sea is at 800-492-0311. 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