Chasing The Blue Beyond

I hung out with Sarah Super Diver; She does deep sea fishing, snorkeling and diving. I was at : Rafael E. Melgar LB, Centro, San Miguel de Cozumel, Qr, at none other than Starbucks. A lot of tri-athletes are here for the Iron Man/ It's cool because PPL think I am here to compete.

Crossed the Panama Canal from Cristabol to Panama City and back by railroad yesterday.

Cartagena · Coffee · Castle · Improbable Luck Foreign Land The Divine Payroll I went out for my first cup of JOEse and came back sixty dollars richer. Cartagena had entered the ledger. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Arrival Wherever I Go, Here I Am From Shakira, whose hips do not lie, to the darker mythology attached to the Cali Cartel, Colombia arrived already carrying stories. But wherever I went, there I was. This time: Cartagena. First Cup of JOEse Juan Valdez Pays Out I went for my first cup of coffee and found three twenty-dollar bills on the street. Probably counterfeit, I joked. That was sixty dollars, found before the day had pr...

ABC-Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao: You can bet on it. As good as it gets, all of these Caribbean islands have white sandy shorelines with the same New Yorkers you might be fighting with for parking spaces back home only this time it's beach chairs. They speak a lot more Dutch here (in Aruba) than I expected. There's a lot of casinos, and a lot of the online poker/sportsbook sites who set up -offshore-shops. Maybe more will be here after the Dec 1 deadline for online gaming, when mostly all banks won't take deposits from American players . (December 1st, the date by which the financial services industry in the United States must fall into line with the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act ( UIGEA ). B is for Bonaire, and I won't be headed there this time around. Then there is "C" , Curacao, pronounced Curaçao. It is a quintessential port town with lots of activity and a quasi European feel, If you ever wished palm trees in Holland and 80 degree Januaries; c...

It ain't much if it ain't Dutch Ten Years ago I came here with fifty dollars and left with $300. Now that's how they vacation in The Netherlands or is this Venezuela? They sell the paradise experience real well here. I was at : De Rouvilleweg, Willemstad,

Got Coke? I am on my way to Cartagena Columbia via Willemstad Curacao, Orjanstad Aruba; then on to Cristobal Panama and Play Del Carmen Mexico. Ten days ago I lost my iPod. I said to myself, "It's not lost, you are" Today I was in Florida, walked right into Sandlewoods Yachtwear and Ashley,who works there just handed it over matter of factly I was at : 1600 SE 15th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316,

It's not where you go, it's who you meet along the way...Jeff Keith from Tesla with Edward Anthony from TONY (To New York)

Grand Cayman · Paradise / Prosperity · Caribbean Archive A Sunny Place for Shady People Grand Cayman, where paradise meets prosperity and every postcard carries a balance sheet on the reverse. Fifty shades of blue above the waterline; offshore mythology below it. Fifty Shades of Blue Georgetown Harbor Red Snapper Stingray Archive A Decade of Returns See Full Image Show Story Grand Cayman, like the postman, always delivers. The package changes. The address does not: fifty shades of blue, a little theater, and one more reason to distrust a postcard. The island arrived first as color. Water, sky, shallows and distance kept rearranging the same blue until the eye gave up trying to name it. Paradise was easy to photograph. The harder work was seeing what else had been delivered. Blue Air Fish Finance Return 01 O...

Hair Today, Gone to Maui Rust never sleeps Queensryche's Parker and The Honorable Mr Slash.

Q Balls by Choice · Confidence / Identity / Style Answer the Call Me No Hair Michael Jordan made the shaved head aspirational. The rest of us discovered that bald was not an absence. It was a decision. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Headlines Q Balls by Choice In the beginning, there was Michael Jordan: poster man for the perfectly bald look. He made shaving cutting edge. The shaved head moved from social outcast stereotype to rock-star confidence. The arithmetic was simple. Shaved Head = Shiny + Smooth + Seen Is bald beautiful? Perhaps. Is bald a high-end haircut? Maybe. One thing is certain: bald is a hair color. The Manifesto ...

Mc Donalds Is Hiring At Gitmo! Out of work and willing to relocate, McDonalds is looking for shift man agers at GITMO! to flip hamburgers . Ronald sez, "The McDonald's franchise at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba is looking for an assistant manager. The ideal candidate will have previous restaurant management experience, a valid U.S. passport and a willingness to relocate to Cuba. As I sail by the Northwest point of Cuba, Ed sez "Give me the ball. Put me in Coach!" I have always dreamed of that perfect place in the sun, working for one of the world's largest companies on the planet and enjoying tax -free income. Camp X Ray sounds awesome! hanging out with Jihad Joes and Generation Terrorists. Six degrees from Mohamad Atta. Yes even the 215 detainees, can make take-out orders for Big Macs and Happy Meals! I guess those days of nation building, taking all the angry PPL from Iran and Iraq, and giving them their own country-Irate, are over. The Cuba Express Car...

Being Chuck Noland Ed Reif is a time-obsessed FedEx systems analyst, who jets around the world resolving productivity problems. After his plane crashes, he is given up for dead. Stranded alone on a desert island, his only companion is Wilson, a volleyball. Knowing he must get back to the mainland, Ed builds a crude raft and heads out to sea because he still has one more package to deliver.

Red Stripe Beerfest Boom= Listen Up As I approach the gateway to the tropical heaven, I got Bob Marley in my ears. Summing up The Bob Mood- he assures me, Every thing's Gonna be alright , Yet if Vegas is where neon goes to die, then this is certainly the resting place of "Legend" and "One Love" Bob Marley Nostalgia. The music still stands the test of time, and Bob Marley is an American Idol, but the country needs an extreme makeover. Think Fat Elvis belting out a few lines of My Way--Karaoke Elvis, a cheap imitation of himself. And so it is with Jamaica, like a hound dog with a few miles left, loyal to the end--providing tourists with the ganja, the rum, the HBO (Hair Belonging To Others) $10 hookers and the rasta vibe. "So what do you want?" gets asked a hundred times as I walk the gauntlet in Ocho Rios. I'm feeling Cambodia, Thailand and Turkey pushing at me all at the same time. Thank god there are no carpet merchants. Even Rolling Stone's...

Puerto Rico · Old San Juan · Cruise Port / Container Port Foreign Land Old San Juan: Nice! A morning tour, a quiet Saturday harbor, and a port city whose scale was larger than the number of ships visible from the quay. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Arrival Took a Tour of Old San Juan Nice. The city did not need a complicated opening line. Color, stone, sea air, and the geometry of a working harbor did the work. The first impression was immediate. The larger story belonged to the port. Roll Video Old San Juan in Motion The Port A Harbor Larger Than the Frame The original source described the Port of San Juan as one of the busiest seaports in the West and among the world’s leading ports for container movement. It also described San Juan as the world’s largest home-based cruise po...