Slip F-18

"It was to have been a quiet evening at home.

Home is the Busted Flush, 52-foot-barge-type houseboat, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale.

Home is where the privacy is. Draw all the opaque curtains, button the hatches, and with the whispering drone of the air conditioning masking all the sounds of the outside world, you are no longer cheek to jowl with the random activities aboard the neighbor craft. You could be in a rocket beyond Venus, or under the icecap." -- The Deep Blue Good-by, John D. MacDonald.

A friend told me I just had to read this. So here goes.