Have you ever wondered where sailors get the necessities of life -- and a few luxuries -- while at sea? Wonder no more. They go to the ship store. We stopped in today. It’s like a 7-Eleven combined with a Target. They have everything from socks and underwear to sweet and salty snacks, to movies and other goodies. I bought a Kearsarge baseball cap and t-shirt as a souvenir. (I was hoping they had souvenirs for the kids, but no luck there.) The thing that made the biggest impression on me at the ship store, however, was a negative. The Navy must have a serious problem with theft. They strictly enforce a rule that limits customers in the store at any one time to six, and I was asked to leave my backpack at the front door. I did so only reluctantly because it’s full of expensive camera equipment -- just the kind of thing some bad seed on the Kearsarge would like to steal.
