Trips you can never take.

I hate flying and love ships. So I, for one, would love to sail from Miami to New York, no matter how many days it took, especially if I could use the ship as a hotel once I got there. But that's not going to happen, because of something called the Jones Act. This deals with the subject of coastal shipping, called cabotage. The law requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on U.S. flat ships, constructed in the U.S., owned by U.S. and crewed by U.S. Citizens. This idiotic law is the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. This is why you don't see cruise ships sailing from one American port to another. As you may know, virtually all cruise ships, like Carnival, are screwing the U.S. out of tax money and avoiding our occupational laws by registering in foreign ports. So not only are the foreign cruise companies and others making suckers out of the ditsy U.S. government,  but they're preventing us from taking a wide choice of fun cruises, like an overnight from New York to Boston say.

Note: While almost all the major cruise lines take advantage of avoiding American taxes, the biggest offender is Carnival (The Fun Ships above). Also the most careless. They seem to be the most "in the news" for rapes, passengers falling overboard, a child drowing the in pool, and just plain ships capsizing like their Costa Concordia.