“Where to mac?” The taxi driver asked a young man as he climbed inside of the cab. 

“This dock please.” The blonde said, extending a piece of paper to the man in the front. A black lab sat in the seat next to him, quiet and patient as his tail thumped against the seat. Both the dog and the young man seemed excited about going to the dock. 

“What’s taking you to the dock?” The driver asked a he started out into the traffic. 

“We’re going on a cruise. Meeting a friend of a friend who happened to have a spare ticket…” While the young man was talking, the cab driver looked in the review mirror to see the young man had a dog sitting with him. The dog had a vest on stating that he was on duty and to please not pet. “Yes, I’m aware that I might not be able to actually see what’s going on but you’d be amazing at how well my other senses have kicked in.” The man’s attention turned to the road considering that the blonde in the back seat seemed like he was at the understanding of the driver’s questioning nature.

The port was crowded as Steven Anderson climbed out of the cab and accepted the bag from the driver. The man was nice and Steven actually admitted that he was one of the few cab drivers who hadn’t attempted to screw him out of money. It was a nice change to find less people attempting to take advantage of a blind person. He paid the old driver and used one hand to roll his luggage while the other held onto the harness of his black lab. “Okay Rocky, no causing issues and no going for a random swim. The last thing I need is for you to jump overboard to chase a whale.” A small chuckle left him as he followed the dog’s lead. He was happy to get out of his house and do something unexpected. As you can imagine, the hardest thing for him was to pack; Mark was kind enough to come over and help him, even label things so he wouldn’t have difficulty pulling them out of his bag or guessing if he had grabbed his swim trucks but low and behold he grabbed his boxers. It’s good that he had the chance to avoid that embarrassment.

Apparently he’d be rooming with a woman, a friend of Mark’s. Though he didn’t know much about her, he was always up for meeting new people. Though he would have to asked what the bed configurations would be because Mark wasn’t exactly specific about it. And hopefully she didn’t mind dogs…