2018 Cunard QM2 World Cruise
What a Voyage!
2011 Crystal World Cruise
Ill take things that I know for $20,000 Alex
2015 Holland America World Voyage
The Med, Norway And Beyond
2016 Seaborn The Mediterranean
So Much To sea
Suez Canal Crossing
Suez Spelt Backwards IS Zeus
Sunday, September 8, 2024
HKG TO SOTON World Cruise Voyage Segment
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Around The Word In 80 Ships
I used to think traveling/working on ships was bad...but then I stopped thinking. I reached the threshold in 2009--where I compiled a video of the blue ocean cruising I had done-as if my life flashed before my eyes- I am looking BACK at some of my adventures, which were nothing more than bad planning! And looking FORWARD to the unexpected which is nothing lesss than letting go of the past and creating a more AMAZING future.
Karaoke Living Daring to Be Different in a Copycat World so I joined a ship |
When my life flashes before me, (2009-2011) I wanna make sure it is worth watching--- It might look like the fast motion video BELOW:
Santorini Onboard The Celebrity Soltace |
The road to excess, has led to the palace of wisdom.The Japanese call it wabi sabi - the ability to love an imperfect situation perfectly and go with the flow. It's living a full life by intentionally designing it so that you don’t have to sacrifice anything important or waste your time, money or energy. It's the law of least effort, the strength of weak ties and < = > (less is more) 5-2=7 getting rid of things that don't serve you can actually be a value add. You can't have everything-where would you put it?
I haven't been everywhere but it's on my list.
At sea, that always-on, 24/7, hyper-connected consumer culture is gone, leading to a spike in creativity and focused, elegant ideas that cut through the clutter of modern-day existence. It also makes you more generous, more creative, more content and more simple. I am not trying to be better than anyone else just better than I used to be.
It starts by knowing more-the more I know the better I am--traveling accelerates that "knowing". Yet, knowledge isn't the power---applying the knowledge IS...of positive intent, expecting the best out of everyone, and eliminating opportunities for anger in your life. Instead, opening up the dialogue for re-creation and the exultation of the possible.
Growing old is not optional, growing up is. Since I have not "unlearned" how to begin, it still is exquisite to venture out, but I have to consent to doing this alone.The vision must be followed by the venture----it's not enough to stare at the ocean, you have to get in your boat and row.
You spell time L-O-V-E and Time is nature's way of not having everything happen all at once. Love is our inheritance. Fear is what we acquire from our schooling. The journey of the spirit is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back in our hearts.
Action Sustains Hope- Get Busy Living or get busy dying. |
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Monday, October 11, 2021
A National Geographic Trip To Everywhere
The Geography Of Bliss-It was the best of vibes. It was the worst of vibes. We waited for 2020 to have that perfect vision. Nobody could predict what they'd be seeing and doing last year- washing our hands, wearing a mask and social distancing because of the global pandemic. Normally, we would be sailing in the Norwegian Fjords, The Baltics or through Alaska's wildlife super highway, and Glacier Bay.Tis the season but all fleets have come to a grinding halt. And then we found Fair Isle, which is like a cargo ship, surrounded by sea.
Saturday, July 3, 2021
On The Edge Of Britain: Plan S Shetland
Time Millionaires
Weather has closed in and we are below limits both on route and at Fair Isle. This afternoons flight is now cancelled...but we are in the air! And Skyelark is in the hold.
Sunday, March 14, 2021
A Visit To The Low Country Region South Carolina
Friday, February 26, 2021
Month 14 of 2020
2020-What a year!
Yellowstone National Park (WY not?), Fair Isle, Scotland, (Shetland) Dover, England (White Cliffs) via Orlando (Disney) and South Florida.
It started with Christmas and New Years sailaways on Disney Cruise Lines in The Eastern and Western Caribbean. Then Covid hit, and travel changed forever...Yet we managed to finish the year out on Britain's most remote inhabited island, population 45, taking physical distancing Uber seriously.
Yellowstone National Park USA
It was the best of vibes. It was the worst of vibes. We
waited for 2020 to have that perfect vision.
Nobody could predict what they'd be seeing and doing this year- washing
their hands, wearing a mask and social distancing because of the global
pandemic. Normally, we would be sailing in the Norwegian Fjords, The Baltics
or through Alaska's wildlife super
highway, Glacier Bay.Tis the season but all fleets have come to a grinding
halt.
DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP. or the goal of taking a vacation- ..You can't deny gravity, or the gravity of the situation, and traveling these days will never be the same. I'd have to get resourceful, resilient and drive somewhere long distance in an automobile.
I rented a land yacht, a 2020 Mitsubishi Outlander (my
protective bubble from the Covidiots who refused to take the virus seriously
enough to follow some basics) and drove from Palm Beach to Jackson Hole, WY.
Planning a road trip now is like trying to build an airplane as you're flying
one ... data changes constantly..so I avoided airports, public transport
and took my chances in a SUV, and hit
the interstate freeways. Three days (daze) later I rolled up on The Grand
Tetons. I've sailed the seven seas, and visited every imaginable port of call,
but being double-land locked would be a first.
Fair Isle, Shetlands UK
Britain's most remote inhabited island. We flew in this
morning. It feels like we are walking into a painting. Think Norway meets
Hawaiian islands and Father Time and Mother Nature have a field day.
No man is an island, as John Donne wrote, but, north of the border, you can live on one. Scotland's. The Shetland's is good like that, with 15 inhabited ones to choose from. We are here in Fair Isle. Britian's most remote one. It feels like we are moving through paintings as the ever changing weather lights the landscape in unique and splendid ways.
Thanks to the popularity of the TV Series Shetland, we have
had it on our radar as places to visit
this year.
Of all the 115 islands
in the archipelago, just a few- 15-
are inhabited ones. We are at to Britain's most remote island, Fair Isle.
First, Sarah and I flew into Lerwick, Shetland's mainland via Edinburgh, Scotland. Next, we got a PCR test for Covid (Think Positive Test Negative).
Then, we followed-on
to Fair Isle, population 55, now 57! What a place to
self-isolate during the global pandemic!
There are two choices for transport to reach the island - take it or leave it.
The first involves a 20-minute straight run aboard a 'puddle jumper, 7 seater fixed-wing
plane from the mainland of Shetland –
a twin engine prop plane-
heart-in-the-mouth flight- up-close and personal with the pilot and his control
dashboard.
Thankfully, that link was not cancelled, due to fog, wind or just plain bad weather, then it would have been a ferry, actually a converted fishing vessel, the only other alternative, a notoriously 2 hour rough crossing aboard the island’s ferry, the Good Shepherd IV. Sometimes the North Sea is even too rough for the ferry.
Living Of The Grid And Living On The Edges
Fair Isle is not connected to the National Grid. Energy is generated in the island by the Fair Isle Electricity Company (FIEC) using wind turbines and solar and this is stored in a battery back up system. We brought Torches, flashlights, as there is zero light pollution or street lights.
Disney Cruise Lines -Port Canaveral, FL/CARRIBEAN
Castaway Cay |
Last night we celebrated onboard the Disney Fantasy.
When it comes to Disney royalty, you can’t get much cooler
than Elsa and Anna. We started the evening with the movie Frozen 2 and its
takeaway of ..when under pressure, do the next best thing, was noteworthy.
Later...
We all had our own fireworks display to bring in the New
Year, Setting things on fire on a ship? Yep.
2020 Trip Reports
Things Started To Take Off In Shetland - What a
Year-2020
- Flight
From Fair Isle To Shetlands
- Checking The
Flock
- South
Lighthouse Fair Isle
- Malcom's
Head Hike Fair Isle
- Fleece
Navidad Fair Isle
- Given Day
- Ice
Bath In The North Atlantic
- Sheeple
- Fair
Isle-The Baaaahamas Of The Shetlands
- Atlantic
Grey Seals Spotted Today
- Sunday On
Fair Isle
- Shetland Turf
- Fair
Isle-WW2 Plane Wreckage Spotted
- Lighthouse
Walk-Fair Isle
- Fair Isle
101-Living Off The Grid
- Fair
Isle Windows 2020
Fair Isle And My Sheeple
Sarah AT The White Cliffs Of Dover-Disney Magic
In the backgroundST Ninians'Double Beach, Mainland Shetland WY, MT,ID-The Grand Daddy Of National Parks - The
Power of New Is Now-It's About Time
- Around
The World In 80 Ships
- Old
Dog-New Tricks
- United
Kingdom-Time Millionaires
Love This Blue Nylon Mask-Matches My Hat Disney Dream Docked at Castaway Cay-Disney's Private Island
New Years Eve 2019 Onboard The Disney Fantasy BC Before Covid |