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"Maybe we could just head over to the Tempest Lounge and try to overhear conversations," yawns my publisher and sometime cruise director, Pappi, from across the room and overflowing without ideas. “Have you tried their Journalist drink? Seagrams Gin, sweet vermouth, dry vermouth, fresh squeezed lemon juice, triple sec and a dash of bitters. It's a classic dating back to the 1930s. It's tasty.”

And off we go.

[Tempest Lounge, 913 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Tacoma, 253.272.4904]