It was an extraordinary moment — the first black candidate with a good chance at becoming a presidential nominee, in a country in which racial distrust runs deep and often unspoken, embarking at a critical juncture in his campaign upon what may be the most significant public discussion of race in decades.
They flew to Istanbul then rode down to Izmir, found a smuggler, paid over $1000 each and embarked at dusk on a packed inflatable 6m boat to the island of Lesbos in Greece.
Just as Mrs Thatcher catastrophically misread Scottish opinion and ensured that she and her party would reap a political whirlwind from which they have never recovered north of the border, Mr Cameron embarked, at least initially, on a similarly disastrous course.
More striking, the Dalai Lama, their spiritual leader, embarked at the same time on an eight-day trip to Sikkim, a north-eastern state on the border with Chinese-run Tibet.
Now, every morning before dawn, she wakes her son and kisses him goodbye before embarking at 6 on an hour-and-a-half commute to Mill Basin, Brooklyn, via two trains and a bus, so she can get to work an hour early, "to get a head start," she said.
Rather than sating Ludo's paternal yearnings, the film inspires him to embark, at 11, upon a quest to choose his own father.
Return custom is guaranteed because many travellers embarking at Goz Beïda – a gravel airstrip used almost exclusively by the UN and where delays are common – have large expense allowances at their disposal.
On any weekend day during the cruise season -- from May to October -- up to 10,000 passengers may be debarking and embarking at the same time, creating a traffic nightmare outside the spare and gloomy passenger terminals.
On 3 October 1940 two weeks after his wedding Crombie embarked a ship at Sydney, bound for Canada.
When a chorus recitation is demanded, it is recited (by John Hurt) over footage of a ship at sea, embarked on a cross-channel invasion.
