They emotionally reveal their true natures (and their love) to each other during tongue-in-cheek romantic banter...you""ll feel better about me and things will be like they used to be"), but soon things took a turn for the worse.But after a short stint, he is laid off ("last in, first out").So he crisscrosses the country to find steady work.He travels by steamer down the East Coast, across the Lower Gulf states and the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans (where no jobs are available), and hen by train North to Oshkosh (and Lake Winnebago) in Wisconsin.He exclaimed: "Oh, no.It""s impossible...It""s my ship." Further inside, he found the bridge security door (covered with a shatter-proof glass barrier) with the hand ID system still intact and operable.