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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.
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.
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!
Around The World in 110 Days
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| 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.
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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