Most tourists look at Norway's breathtaking fjords from cruise ships, glancing up.

Airline shares and oil prices used to move together like kids on a teeter-totter, with one rising while the other falls. But the financial crisis affecting the U.S. and other countries has thrown that conventional wisdom out the window.

University of Colorado junior Brad Revare is participating this fall in the Semester at Sea program. This is one in a series of occasional dispatches from his trip.