[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

On my first cruise with the Navy, 1986, we ported in then Bombay, India. We (I was on a frigate and there was a cruiser with us, the USS Fox) were the first USN ships to stop in Bombay in almost two decades.

We were properly feted by the India Navy, the Embassies and the locals for five days. At an Embassy party I met the coolest, best looking Indian woman...instant kismet. You know when you feel it.

We spent three days together, always with an escort, glorious even so.

Lines from a movie tell the rest of the tale better than I:

"...and my ship sails for the new world
on the evening tide."

"How is this to end ?"

"As stories must
when love's denied...with tears and a journey."

Hey, you out-writing me? Stand down, sailor.