Annals of the Sea

Some time ago, while daydreaming about tossing out my to-do list and becoming a Buddhist nun or a berry farmer, I signed up for a newsletter called New Escapologist, which advocates freeing oneself from “the overbearing world of work, consumerism, and anxiety.” New Escapologist got a juicy little mention in The New Yorker this week, thanks to writer Shayla Love who, inspired by our question about how possible (and tolerable) it might be to escape permanently into the floating world of cruise ships, wrote an enjoyable essay about precisely that. Alas, Shayla also writes: I have now crossed off life at sea from my list of escapes for the foreseeable future! * Escape with the best of them by reading New Escapologist Issue 19.

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