The excursion started uneventfully, when I detected familiar fumes of gasoline on Delancey Street, but turning onto Eldridge toward Broome I confronted a pungent, intriguing miasma of garlic, cigarette smoke, rotten melon, roasted meat, and plastic.
The cost of the excursion starts at $2,000 a person based on double occupancy, including air travel from Los Angeles, transfers to and from the airport in Guam, five nights' accommodations at the Outrigger Guam Resort, a welcome reception and a closing dinner.
The kid-friendly excursion starts with a gentle boat ride that brings snorkelers to calm waters.
This 11-day, 10-night excursion starts in Rome and continues on to the picturesque Amalfi Coast and the Mediterranean-chic towns of Positano, Amalfi and Ravello.
I sat down with Thaddeus Lenover, an intrepid young hesher who recently got back from a month and a half excursion starting in Toronto, going all over Ontario, through Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and back.
Off-ship excursions start at $60.
One reasonably priced option is Captain Marvin's (two locations; 345-945-6975; www.captainmarvins.coffershich offers half-day excurstartingatting aroundund $40.
The prices, with air fare, hotel, various meals, and walking tours or excursions, start at $999 a person for the Nice trip of eight nights and rise to $1,899 for 12 nights in Bali.
Including an optional overnight camping excursion, fares start at $5,390 a person.
But it also contains "Save the Life of My Child," a surreal excursion that starts with a squelch of Moog synthesizer and includes a ghostly, disconcerting snippet — we would now call it a sample — of Simon & Garfunkel singing "The Sound of Silence".
The Washington Area Roller Skaters, which holds a group skating excursion that starts near the White House several times a week, gives an F.R.S. radio to the lead skater, who picks the route, and the sweeper, who makes sure that no one is hurt or left behind.
