3.5 Years of MTness-Magic Thinking @ Sea In Photos

Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. Thanks to digital, and my trusted camera, who cares. Just point and shoot, and you capture snapshots of moments. I'm an extremely talkative  person.  Yet I like taking pictures because  they speak for themselves.  

2011 World Cruise

Wish Fulfillment  and The  Law Of Attraction

My definition of Thinking is when your  mind is separate from your  body: Some call it dreaming. I call it using your imagination. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. That's when you can leap long distances,  go forward and backward  in time, walk  through solid brick walls and never age, 

My definition of Magical Thinking,  or MT, is when we can manufacture experiences in our mind, and then later, attract these situations into our life.  The mind IS, after all, what the brain DOES. Put simply, you  attract into your  life whatever you consistently think about.  I always go back to the importance of being Ernest (Hemingway) That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. 
2010 World Tour Cruises

2009 World Tour Cruises


Hawaii 2007-2008

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Arundel Castle-We Are The English

A Man's Home Is His Wife's Castle

There will always be an England, even if it is in Hollywood.  In fact, it makes me think of  Monarchs,  all the  knights in shining armor movies and Brothers Grimm tales of  Rapunzel,  princesses, and royalty.

English castles  are such a common sight in the UK. I wonder what the upkeep on this brick and mortar version is.  If I had that kind of money I wouldn't come to England, I'd send for it.

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GR8 Brit-The South Coast- Worth Sea-ing

Walking On Water

No Pool. No Problem. I have the sea and beach. Its voice speaks to my  soul. Why do "I love water"so much?   It not only permits  my  mind to be empty and clear, but enforces it because  time doesn't move hour to hour but wave to wave.

If Hollywood is loneliness by the swimming pool, then solitude is a walk on the beach.

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GR8 Britain-The Best Ships Are Friendships

Living on a ship  might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria. 

The Patron Saint of  Optimism-Another dopeless hope fiend!

Geography is the topography of ignorance, a finite disappointment not only  when the map becomes the territory, but when you actually visit these hole in the wall places. In most cases, it's a lot better to transcend reality with imagination, re-framing the conversation. "Melbourne was awesome", "Ghana? Amazing!" India? a magical delight".  


Nevertheless,  there is not one ship that doesn't sail to a port where life is not uncomfortable. The future just isn't what it used to be. Yet, you don't quit countries, you quit people, and I have to say the best ships are friendships, and I have met some amazing people while sailing around the world.


Impossible Is Nothing


Going out to sea is  the infinity of hope, the preview of life's coming attractions where you have final cut in your own movie.  You can lose yourself in the ocean's food for thought. Its  menu is the meal,  and itineraries are full of promises. It gives you a  sense of destination and the energy to get started again.

The weather is here wish you were beautiful

Call it faith!  A passion for the possible. I am full of it, and shooting from the hip that is to say,   having an adventure is something more but nothing less than bad planning.  When I cold-called for my first ship job, and got it after a 12 minute elevator pitch, I began to trust myself, and only when you trust yourself can you truly begin to live it up.


  

But I'm not a sailor . Maybe a sailor  with a small s. Living on a ship,  however, might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria. It's not real life but an alibi. It  is like going out of your mind everyday- in order to come to your senses; and a fool who persists in his folly becomes wise. After 9 ships, yes nine, I no longer want to cast doubt on perfection-America.  There's nothing I wouldn't do for my country , and there's nothing it  wouldn't do for me. And that's the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other. 


Embracing the life forced upon me, I have had  nothing to do and all day to do it. An accident of birth, being born in the USA,  I won the geographically-desirable-places-to-live-on-the-planet lottery, and have squandered my inheritence in the United States of Unconsciousness, a shared hallucination of "any place but here" and " the grass is greener". 


The grass is greener where you water it. 

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The Channel, UK- I'm Not There

Land Lubber or Lover?

Finally, I am not on the sea, but  here  on dry land at Worthing Beach, with the English Channel in background.Shipwrecked on time, stranded on the present, it's a. gift of 86,400 seconds today. I used one to say "thank you". I am starting to realize, If I had my life to live over again, I wouldn't have time.Point A to Point B has become a lifestyle.

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Manhattan- Saturate Before Using

Out To Lunch

I'm gonna rent my house in the shade of the freeway.
I'm gonna pack my lunch in the morning and go to work each day.


This is no Frank Sinatra New York, New York, , no Jay-Z Empire State of Mind; more like Jackson Browne's, The Pretender. today, while I meet up  with The Office crowds. I am in transit on my way to England. London's calling.

On The E Train From JFK Airport in Queens, NY

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St Louis-Born in the USA

It's good to be back on dry land.

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Reminds me of last season at The Ed:

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London-Balloon Tycoon-World Cruise 2011 Farewell

May All Your Pain Be Champagne

110 Daze later

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Tranquility Base-The Ego Has Landed

I Need My Space!

Space Travel Sure Is Fun

Lunatics!

With a bit of zero-gravity thinking, impossible is nothing!

Let the meek inherit the earth. I'm walking on the moon today. The sky is no longer the limit.

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Crossing the English Channel ,U.K.-The White Cliffs of Dover

London's Calling

110 Days ago, lots and lots of sea days, and all these PORTS:

•                 Los Angeles/San Pedro, California, USA

•                 Mooréa, Society Islands

•                 Bora Bora, Society Islands

•                 Nuku'Alofa, Tonga

•                 Auckland, New Zealand

•                 Napier, New Zealand

•                 Christchurch/Lyttleton, New Zealand

•                 Dunedin, New Zealand

•                 Melbourne, Australia

•                 Brisbane, Australia

•                 Darwin, Australia

•                 Bali/Pedang Bay, Indonesia

•                 Kuala Lumpur/Port Kelang, Malaysia

•                 Yangon/Rangoon, Myanmar

•                 Cochin, India

•                 Marmagao, India

•                 Mauritius/Port Louis, Republic of Mauritius

•                 Durban, South Africa

•                 Cape Town, South Africa

•                 Bom Bom Island, Principe

•                 Takoradi, Ghana

•                 Lisbon, Portugal

•                 Oahu/Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

•                 Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands

•                 Rarotonga, Cook Islands

•                 Lautoka, Fiji

•                 Tauranga, New Zealand

•                 Wellington, New Zealand

•                 Picton, New Zealand

•                 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

•                 Sydney, Australia

•                 Cairns, Australia

•                 Komodo Island, Indonesia

•                 Singapore

•                 Phuket, Thailand

•                 Colombo, Sri Lanka

•                 Mumbai (Bombay), India

•                 Malé, Republic of Maldives

•                 St-Denis, Réunion, France

•                 Port Elizabeth, South Africa

•                 Walvis Bay, Namibia

•                 Lomé, Togo

•                 Dakar, Senegal

•                 London/Dover, England

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2011 Crystal Serenity World Cruise

London's Calling

110 Days ago, lots and lots of sea days, and all these memories

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  • Crossing the English Channel ,U.K.-The White Cliff...
  • Lisboa- Internet Explorer Verses The Real World
  • 3 Days @ Sea Then Lisbon, Portugal
  • Dakar, Senegal- AmeriCON's

• ▼  April 2011 (20)
  • Takoradi, Ghana--I Like Water
  • Togo-or not to go
  • Principe- It's a Jungle Out There
  • 96 Days @ Sea
  • 3 Days @ Sea-Then Africa's Eden
  • Namibia-Desert Rain
  • Cape Town-Swimming With The Sharks
  • Fish Hoek-Old Dog New Tricks
  • Kapstadt, Südafrika-Blowin' in the Wind
  • South Africa-to London, England (23 Daze left)
  • Lalibela Game Preserve, South Africa-Elephant Man
  • Eastern Cape, South Africa Safari -The Big 5
  • Durban, South Africa-ImagiNATION
  • Africa to Europe
  • 3 Days at Sea- Then Durban, South Africa
  • Réunion, Africa-Oh La La-Big Fish
  • Mauritius-Following The Equator
  • Indian Ocean-The World According To Google
  • 4 days at sea in the Indian Ocean, then Mauritius
  • Maldives-Consciousness Is Wireless

• ▼  March 2011 (23)
  • Arabian Sea- Sailing For The Maldives
  • Goa-ZAMM-India's Open Road-Holy Cow!
  • Goa, India- Happy Is Hippie
  • Mumbai, India-Painting the Town
  • Cochin-South West India-Coconut Republic
  • India to Africa- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
  • Columbo, Sri Lanka-Here Comes Everywhere
  • 3 Years of MT Experiences- (Magical Thinking)
  • Yangoon-One Hand Clapping- Smiling With One Lip
  • Myanmar- Vegetarians eat animal crackers
  • Beyond Rangoon Headlines
  • Burma- Nirvana- Come as you are
  • Phuket-When you come back Thailand
  • Kuala Lumpur-Under Construction
  • Singapore-Say Hello Wave Goodbye
  • Singapore- Taxi Drivers-A Pain In The English
  • Singapore to Mumbai-From Monk to Slumdog (Time) Mi...
  • Bali, Indonesia-The Grass Is Greener Where You Wat...
  • Komodo Island-No Jurassic Park, No Godzilla
  • Darwin-The 800lb Gorilla
  • GR8 Barrier REEF Magic
  • Cairns-GR8 Barrier Reif-A Natural Wonder
  • Brisbane-The Charlie Sheen Of Weather

• ▼  February 2011 (21)
  • Sydney Harbor-"Con te partirò"
  • Sydney to Singapore- Bali and The GR8 Barrier Ree...
  • Melbourne-And She said, "I come from a land down u...
  • Melbourne-Koalas Are Slackers
  • Hobart, Tasmania
  • Millford Sound- Under The Waterfalls
  • Milford Sound-Are We There Yet?
  • Got Kilt? Beam Me Up New Zealand
  • Dunedin-I Love Ewe
  • Picton-Jump Starting My Metabolism
  • ChristChurch-WWJD
  • Wellington, RWC-Give Blood.Play Rugby
  • Napier-,NZ Got Sheep vs Got Milk?
  • Taraunga,NZ-My-Attitude is-Determining -My-Altitud...
  • The Secret Of Staying Young-Lying About Your Age
  • Auckland- Caffeine is not a drug, it's the Zeal in...
  • New Zealand-Got Sheep?
  • Bob TV- If You Build It They Will Leave
  • Southern Cross-Happy Birthday From New Zealand
  • Fiji vs. Voss-I could drink a case of You Tap Wate...
  • Rarotonga, Cook Islands-Come As A Guest, Leave As...

• ▼  January 2011 (8)
  • Bora Bora- The Infinity Pool verses The God Molec...
  • South Pacific Serenade
  • Moorea, Polynesia---- I am Paul Gauguin and so can...
  • Grass Skirt Productions-Hips Don't Lie
  • Hawaii's Gem-Shine On You Crazy Diamond
  • The Ballon Tycoons
  • Los Angeles-To London in 110 Days-

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Lisboa- Internet Explorer Verses The Real World

Ship Shape



Windows 2011



Tranquility Base-The Ego Has Landed-

It would be a lot easier in today’s high tech world, where Google is God, to create a lunar landing, or for that matter, fake a trip Around The World In 80 Minutes by simply posting cut and pasted blog trip reports on Hotel@nyware, YouTube FB and Twitter. Call it Internet Explorer  2.0, an analog world but a digital life. My  future is not what it used to be. And this is largely because, like my  future, my changes are not what they used to be. In 1985 when I lived in Belgium, I used Snail Mail and POTS, Plain Old Telephone Services. Things moved slowly.

I used to joke that-I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list—Now, I can cross everywhere off my list  (with the exception of certain places in South America like Brazil and Argentina). Traveling by cruise ship, visiting  15 countries every 30 days is probably the only way I could have done it. Age 40 was the old age of youth, and 50 is the youth of old age—while I am still in relatively ship shape.



Around The World in 110 Days

  JFK wanted to put a man on the moon. My vision is to put every American man and woman  on a  World Cruise and prove their  world is flat  while  everyone elses  world is round!



London's Calling. Gotta Go Almost a year to date, I am back in the UK in 2 days



My World is Flat

What do Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama,  Henry The Navigator and Ed Reif  all have in common?  We  all stayed at a Holiday Inn? Perhaps. We saved a ton of money onour car insurance by switching to Geiko?  Maybe.  We all circumnavigated  the globe, especially by water?
 Absolutely!
Sure I take credit for being a sailor, once around without leaving the ground. What a place to end the chapter, not the book, in the little country that discovered the world is round- Portugal. Yet, As I get my Freakonomics on, I have to say, truely, there is a global supermarket, and the internet shatters time and space,  and my world is flat. Information is  the "new" currency.

Bits verses Atoms

With electronic immigrants, however  outsourced from India  and  the billions of ppl that live on less than $2 a day  doing  piece-work  in  sweat-shops  or agro fields in the name of Wal-Mart and "Stuff", the world is not flat for these guys, it's still  round. 

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