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Who hasn’t wanted to travel by ship? Some battered leather trunks, lounging in deck chairs on a steamer bound for Africa with a captain talking to tigers from his cafeteria tray. Okay maybe the last bit is confined to Neutral Milk Hotel songs. Actually, for the most part, all of that image is confined to songs, Conrad novels and other bygones.

But if you don’t require steamers and bring your own deck chairs, it is definitely still possible to travel by ship. If you’re thinking hey, there’s a cool way to save some money, think again. Short of becoming crew, booking passage on a freighter or other large vessel bound overseas is generally about double, sometimes more, what it would be to fly to same place.

Of course that may be changing with the way airfare is skyrocketing.

So if the mood hits, this Traveler’s Notebook piece has the general outline of how to go about booking passage on a freighter and what to expect once you step on board.

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