I am from Savannah, Georgia, USA. I have been fascinated with the great ocean liners (particularly the British liners and the SS United States) ever since watching James Cameron's 1997 film, Titanic.
I never got the opportunity to sail aboard QE2, but I always got a chance to see the great liner while visiting New York City every summer. Just being in the presence of a legend at her mid-town New York pier, and watching her sailing up and down the Hudson was always a highlight during my annual summer vacations to New York.
I have read extensively about the QE2, and realize that there is nothing else like her in the world today. She is one of the greatest ocean liners ever built, and I hope that there are better years ahead for her. Here in America, we should be ashamed for allowing our own SS United States to go to waste. The SSUS and QE2 are the last of the great 20th Century trans-Atlantic superliners, and both should be preserved. But the QE2 is still in top-notch condition, and there is a chance for her to be showcased (appropriately) for future generations.
While never having sailed aboard QE2, it is my ambition to make a crossing aboard her "sister" QM2 at some point in my life so that I can get a touch of what life aboard QE2 might have been like.
Regards,
Wes
