Meanwhile, the subdivisions where so many of us park our precious cars--and our dreams--have proven, like Beanie Babies and Thomas Kinkade paintings, to be a less than stellar investment, leaving millions of Americans looking for a new bubble to float their boat while Wall Street and the rest of the world blanches at the prospect of a global recession.
When we arrived at the beach, a spit of dune-backed land stretching out toward Ibiza, the view was clogged with boats and wall-to-wall sun umbrellas.
The hull cut so steeply through the water that sitting became more like standing against a boat-shaped wall.
Inside guests will find luxurious contemporary comforts like an infinity pool and Wi-Fi complimented by Asian antiques and market finds, like large driftwood columns, old copper bowls, recycled boat timber walls and century-old Cambodian day beds.
Not everything is all-inclusive, though: activities such as the climbing wall, boat rides and even mini golf are extra.
Through no fault of her own, the France-to- England attempt ended minutes from success when her escort boat hit the wall of Dover harbour in dense fog.
Water swirled in, along with dead fish and mosquitoes, and as a current raised us, it took everything we had to hold fast to the line and loop it from rung to rung as the wind pounded the boat against the wall and a toothless lockkeeper grinned at us greenhorns from his perch at the top.
In the name of love, they painted a boat on a wall and tried unsuccessfully to put a lock on a fence to symbolize eternal love.
What's inside the docking area is found out by going through it, and the lead can't guide the boat through a wall.
For the next three days, as the boat careered between walls of water and the crew struggled to reattach the towline, and as a Coast Guard helicopter shuttled the painters from the barge to the tug in high winds and Latham steered the ship, Dominique seemed to never stop running.
