Chasing The Blue Beyond

Not Bad For a 50 Year Old Ass I dont need no Beast of Burden I need no fussing I need no nursing The 2009 World Tour

Why Zebra's don't get ulcers- The Acclaimed Guide to Stress I was at : Gloucester Ave, Montego Bay,  Dr. Cove's Beach......Time to take my meditation...reflecting less about the fear of dying and more about the joy of living. 2009  has been great! Happy LAST Year! er I mean Happy New Year. What  about  Zebras, who  tend to live in the moment... They may freak out when lions are running after them, but they don't agonize over things that aren't actually happening. And, as the title says, they don't get ulcers. Makes you think it's all in your head- no such thing as stress-only prolonged stressful thoughts. If it doesn't kill you it'll make you stronger...After all, Zebra's stress is short term, a matter of minutes. They either escape their predators, or they get eaten. To Josh, Amber, Baby Parker and Wendy; Sponsored by Pampers: "We're right behind you". " May the good Lord be with you /Down every road you roam And may sunshine...

apoCalypso Now   As I close out this decade: Age 40 is the old age of youth--when I ran the Los Angeles Marathon (in Bob Reif's orthotics), had 8% body fat and a six pack, thanks to Layla ---an ECA Stack--Effederine, Caffeine, Aspirin, as told to Charlie Gibson on Good Morning America 5/27/99 Age 50 is the youth of old age---when I traveled 45 countries, by land, sea, air, foot and bicycle. It's like the unplugged version of Eric Clapton's Layla... "See if you can spot this one..." 3rd and long....Go deep...into the crystal blue waters of Cozumel....Hail Mary...(Joyful and loving in) Let(ting) It Be. I'm 18 again, with 32 years experience... Now I know why  Jacques Cousteau, legendary ocean explorer, called it the "best diving area in the world.". "For though we are strangers in your silent world/To live on the land we must learn from the sea. To be true as the tide and free as a wind swell/Joyful and loving in letting it be. Aye Calypso, th...

The Elixir · Hotel @nyware Archive Alstublieft… Keeping in touch with the Dutch—and opening the Ed Reif/Hotel @nyware Time Machine to see where Christmas found me in 2007 and 2008. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Powder-white sand. Caribbean-blue water. Liquid sunshine. Pretty standard stuff. Free is expensive. Check, please. Dank je wel—“dahnk yuh vel.” Archive Image 01 Keeping in Touch with the Dutch Alstublieft A Dutch-Caribbean field note about beaches, blue water, liquid sunshine, and the hidden price of “free.” ...

The Actor's Studio is proud to present To New York ToNY Soprano. ...Konstantín Sergéyevich Stanislavski said, "Love the art in you not you in the art"... but...

Add water...Mix...Repeat I was at : Cll Santo Toribio, San Juan 00901,

About to dock in old San Juan. I was at : Toa Baja,

Panama Photograph · Port Everglades · Paradise Island Answer the Call Merry Kissmas The photograph came from Panama. The departure was Port Everglades. The destination was somewhere between Paradise Island and a tabloid-sized joke. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Caribbean Blue Imagine Sky High Above ...if all you told was turned to gold / if all you dreamed were new / imagine sky high above in Caribbean blue... The line supplied the atmosphere before the ship supplied the route. Caribbean blue was less a color than a direction: away from the terminal, beyond the breakwater, and toward the next island. Panama Pho...

Field Note · Costa Rica · December 2009 Foreign Land Mellow Yellow A Real Madrid jersey, a colour that refuses to whisper, and a reminder that every travel story has something operating behind the curtain. Open Central America File Any Fin Is Possible Costa Rica Colour Theory Gonzo Travel Declassified File 2009 Archive Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The shirt was yellow enough to arrive before I did. Got this Real Madrid jersey in Costa Rica. Ouch. Mellow yellow. We associate the colour with sunshine, happiness and optimism—the Yellow Brick Road of the visual spectrum. But yellow is not a background colour. It announces itself. It steps into the room before the wearer has decide...

The Speed of Trees Under a tree- top canaopy...Paraiso is Spanish for paradise...but today was Paradise Lost. No worries because this trip has been "Safari as a way of life". That takes you out of your CZ's (comfort zones) and incredible things happen, like an attitude of gratitude

Like the Edward Van Halen Song... Uh!Oh yeah! Ah-huh!. Jump back, what's that sound? Here she comes, full blast and top down. Hot shoe, burnin' down the avenue.Model citizen, zero discipline...Panama. Panama .

Tracking Positive for Sugar Rhodes Scholars

Martin Sheen Passing The Torch to Ed Reif "I took the mission.What the hell else was I supposed to do?"

Sea Years Archive Karaoke Living Daring to be different in a copycat world—and discovering that less can become more when the horizon gets wider. See Full Image Show Text Santorini Bearing Voluntary Simplicity Seven Cruises Plus One Having no education can feel like an economic death sentence. A unique talent, however, can become a global passport—free to know, go, and do. Talent makes capital dance. Field Note 01 Sell Cleverness. Buy Bewilderment. Karaoke Living: daring to be different in a copycat world. I sell my cleverness and buy bewilderment. One is mere opinion; the other is intuition. Luck is quite predictable: when I want more luck, I take more chances. Yet the paradox of choice can create more problems than solutions. Excessive generosity and voluntary simplicity become refreshing alternativ...