Chasing The Blue Beyond

New York is a feeling and a place but when you say "I love New York" it's not a feeling, it's a verb-you have to do it!

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Rome · Vatican City · Monte Carlo Rome Sweet Rome and Monte Carlo Ancient stone, sacred altitude, Mediterranean glamour and the curriculum that only movement can teach. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir “Ancient Rome is old—I hope I look this good when I am over 1,000 years old. Traveling is an activity, not an accomplishment. Yet the horizon keeps becoming a classroom.” 01 Ordinary World The Seasoned Student The Seasoned Student Standing on the deck of yet another cruise ship, I gazed out at the Mediterranean horizon and realized something profound: I had become a student of the world without ever enrolling in a single class. The gentle sway of the vessel beneath my feet felt familiar now—after sailing on almost every cruise line to nearly every corner of the plane...

Sunshine On My Shoulders, Makes Me Happy - John Denver I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane. Rocky Mountain High, Thank God I'm a Country Boy!

Cabo San Lucas · Language · Money · Connectivity Foreign Land So a Blogger Walks Into a Bar Cabo, English, money, laptops, cell phones, and the moment a foreign port begins to feel like another Los Angeles neighborhood. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir So a blogger walks into a bar and asks, “¿Hay alguien que hable inglés?” Cabo San Lucas locals speak English as a second language. Money is the first. No Spanglish. No pain in the English. Cabo is very American. Field Signal The First Language Is Transaction Commerce creates its own fluency long before grammar catches up. The Asymmetric Equation Language + Money + Connectivity = Access The foreign land...

Shipboard Stories · Romantic Drama · Extended Liberty The Call The Right Mistakes Pretty Woman meets Cinderella Liberty : a lonely sailor, a woman in trouble, her son, and the temporary family created by a lost passport. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Crew Life Making the Right Mistakes It is fun to watch my fellow crewmates making the right mistakes. The story sits somewhere between Pretty Woman and Cinderella Liberty : romance, damaged lives, temporary leave, and the possibility that the wrong circumstances might produce the right connection. Fade In She Is Thirty-Two She is thirty-two. She drinks too much. She hustles pool. She has a ten-year-old mixed-race son. Sh...

Generation RX · Apple · Android · Identity Trials Is It Safe? A Marathon Man interrogation becomes the perfect operating system for technology, politics, brand loyalty, and foreign-port connectivity. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Before discussing Apple, Android, politics, or identity, the question had to be drilled into the room. Not whether it was fashionable. Not whether it was progressive. Not whether it belonged to the Daddy Party or the Mommy Party. Was it safe? Field Doctrine Define “It” Before Judging It Safety, identity, and technology become meaningless unless the object of the question is made explicit. The Asymmetric Equation Ambiguity + Repeti...

Snow Patrol The mills of  God grind slowly and fine- It's all powder now. Skiing in powder, say many skiers, is the ultimate ski experience. The feeling of lightness, ease, and grace is incomparable. No this is not Mexico  but Norway.

LG - LIfe is Good in Cabo. I've gone native in  a Col Kurtz sort of way, drinking tequila, and sporting a  Hecho in Mexico Straw Cowboy hat---The Horror. The Horror. If 50 is the youth of old age, and Steffi was right-Food is the sex of old age! Analyse this: I had a guacamole-cheese-quesadilla-gasm. In some parts of Mexico I would be married  to that  tortilla already. Man Of Many Hats Ed  If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed- Actually, just wrapped up  in a Brazilian Flag(left) Joe Bjornson is a chain smoker from Iceland. He plays in a Jazz band. He describes himself as the Vincent Van Gough of Trombone- WTF? Then , I am the Rosa Parks of second-hand smokers. I refuse to hang out with my tobacco-stained-finger-tipped-nicotine juiced friends who smoke, unless I am on an open deck, breathing salt-water air. Paying for things in a currency that no longer exist$-the US Dollar, I ask myself, "am I better off than I was 4 T...

Happy Go Local First, there was island sitting in Hawaii. Now it´s a beach watching---a visual metaphor for the life aquatic, which I can sum up in three words---it goes on. I am on stay-cation since three weeks, keeping the sun off my skin, the saltwater out of my eyes, and the sand out of my shoes.

Paris Learning Journey: From Airport to Enlightenment ✈️ ☕ 🗼 📚 🎨 💭 🌍 A Multinational Soul's Journey "Walk through those doors and wander down the Champs-Élysées Going café to cabaret" ✈️ Unchecked Baggage: My Airport, My Self When I landed in Paris, things started to take off. I was on a different plane. 7 days made one weak/week. Avi-Navi-gation seems as natural to me as sending an email or going to Starbucks. I fold up my self and carry "me" around as if I were a gym bag. If you want to be a multinational soul, you cannot do it in New York or Los Angeles, London or Tokyo alone—you need to get consecrated in Paris....