Chasing The Blue Beyond

Living Strong In Estonia , Nordic Biker What am I on? I'm on my bike.

What am I on? My bike... As frequent flyers, we should all get bonus miles for being subjected to Airline toilet stalls. They are, after all, boot camp for what any globtrotter is yet to encounter--everything from Lao holes in the ground to Belgian Bidets . Here in Estonia, the Winner of Bariatric Excellence in an adapted Swedish WC's (Water Closet) motif, goes to a cafe near the old medieval port town of Tallinn It's as if your third eye and your turd eye are one, and you start to believe their own BS:You can sh*t where you eat! And Finally Potatos Not Prozac: A"sugar addicts" total recovery program.

Here Comes The Sun. Celebrating The Russian Summer Solstice a bit late In Soviet Russia, Car Drives You!

Beerfest As a crackdown by the Kremlin to deter Foreign Tourists(Snake Oil Barons) from abusing alcohol, vendors have raised their prices. Russia is no China, but in California, you can always find a party. In Russia, The Party can always find you. Jay Walking In Russia is freedom of speech. In America is also freedom after speech... Banksters Whatever happened to the cold-war promise where "Every Soviet family will have its own airplane". Russian banks have gone the way of the dodo

Many Are Cold, Few Are Frozen Christmas in July--- Global Warming, the 'new religion of First World urban elites' is easier to change than our diet . Homage to: Margaret Mead once said, “It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet" Geologist Ian Plimer, the unremitting critic of "anthropogenic global warming" who put the con back in confidence perpetuated by environmentalists. Go Away Picasso, I'm learning how to Paint

Das Boot Directors Cut , or The Hunt For Red October-Make the call. From Russia With Love "You have such nice things in the U.S.—like warning shots!"

Red October, Christmas In July-Cold Hermitage Musuem , originally uploaded by Ed Reif . Ah Mother Russia--7 months of depression and 5 months of disappointment

Munich to Helsinki · Lufthansa · Katajanokka Foreign Land Escaping to Prison The keyboard was off the chain, the hotel used to be a jail, and breakfast became a Meet Your Meat experience. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Helsinki from the Air The Left Side of the Plane On the flight from Munich via Lufthansa, the source begins with a comic airline caricature: beer-drinking, meat-eating lumberjacks and non-swimmers on the left side of the plane. Finland arrived first as a view from above, then as a keyboard that refused to cooperate. Human Factors Whatever Happened to QWERTY? This keyboard was off the chain. Umlauts, accented characters, unfamiliar key placement...

Ed Reif / The World Tour / 2008 Foreign Land From the World Poker Tour to the World (Not Poker) Tour The chips stayed in the photograph. The itinerary kept moving: Mediterranean ports, Baltic capitals, northern crossings, and the long way back south. Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Field Note 01 A poker photograph marks the departure point. What follows is not one tournament stop, but an expanding map of cities, islands, canals, and ports. 07-15-08 Ed Reif, Chips 3 Best The Asymmetric Equation Silence + Distance = Signal The farther the route moved from the table, the larger the game became. Travel Timeline The World, Port by Port Five movements through Europe, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, North Africa, and the e...

Oia Ole! , originally uploaded by Ed Reif . I Must Have Done Something Right "Think about how many times I have fallen Spirits are using me larger voices callin'." Southern Cross

Sage On The Stage , originally uploaded by Ed Reif . Heros for Zeros, Jocks for Rocks. College credit for being a tourist. Experience is life's report card-Should I go back and try to graduate- Look at this photograph-Nickleback

Ephesus, Bibliomaniac Let It Be , originally uploaded by Ed Reif . Apostle Ed:Faith. He's full of it. What happened in the Vegas of biblical propprtions stayed...Saint John, Paul, WWJD's Mom Mary. I got the call from John Lennon

The Geekfather In The Old Country, "Leave The Gun. Take the cannolis" I'm replaying memorable quotes from The Godfather. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer... Don't ask me about my business, Kay... ,,,Only don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry... it was Barzini all along

Let The Orinoco Flow , "Turn it up...Adieu, ooh." Enya

Domeination , You love this town Even if that doesn't ring true You've been all over And it's been all over you

Field Note 01 It’s A Beautiful Day A small reminder not to let the day get away. See Full Image Show Text Beautiful Day Sky falls, you feel like It’s a beautiful day Don’t let it get away Original photo reference: It’s A Beautiful Day Open Original Image

Don_Quix_ote in Santorini , I dont need no Beast of Burden I need no fussing I need no nursing It's On: Like Donkey Kong

Fountain Of You(th) , originally uploaded by Ed Reif . Napoli July V MMIX

White Castle , originally uploaded by Ed Reif . Hamburger Helper

Life Is Beautiful , Rome. July 5, MMIX I call this "Look I'm wearing glasses" look.

BMW , Seafood Diet. I see food and I eat it. Plius 3lbs of solid muscle . July 4, MMIX

BMW , Bald Man Working Some are born GR8, some achieve GR8ness, some are given GR8ness as a graduation gift. No Pomp. Just Circumstances.

Rhodes Scholar , Failed the tests. Passed the classes: Heros for Zeros---Mythology 101 and Rocks For Jocks---Geography. All I know is that Gods Behave badly and all this blue stuff is the Medeterranian.

Brain Dump , Acropoli Now-The Anti-Aging/Mediterranean Low Information Diet--Ya live longer. Tastes like Chicken. Same Same Only Different.