Chasing The Blue Beyond

On the Road Again Greetings from the user-friendly universe of Southern California. After discovering the God Molecule, flying  a Russian MiG-29 at Mach 2 and Taking  A World Cruise in Zero Gravity- there is something extraordinary about being an "Ordinary People", a mere civilian again; mearly walking in L.A. It's so post September 11th, so pedestrian. Planes are like diets. I don't like being on them , If God had really intended men to fly,  he'd make it easier to pick people up at the airport

 How to predict weather in Seattle: If you can see Mt Ranier,  it's going to rain. If not , it already is.   Aloha to No rain. No rainbows ...Passing  through the Pacific Northwest. People don't age,  they rust. After Monday and Tuesday, all that's left in Seattle is W T F, eh? August 17th, I wrote:   Come as you are It's all sunshine and khaki dress down Wednesday in the rainy city.This little strip of land  really was the epicenter for the anti-hair bands of the 1980's era. I feel nostalgic about the road rules of dirty+beautiful =Grunge.Opting out, not caring about your clothes, the kind of car you drive.Guy-linered Curt Cobain said it best " I'd rather be h8d for who I am than loved for who I am not. 35th floor of Hotel  Sheraton  Seahawks Suck.Go Rams  Treehugger-fruit-juiced-sandal wearing veganish Santa Monica Promenade's  Farmer's Market is the Mini Me of Pike's Place  Market - Pikes The gentrified Dr Evil of fresh produc...

The Hero's Journey -Departure Inititation and now Returning--  As I go beyond following my bliss,  there's nothing left to "see". I'm not screaming out like  Zack Mayo in an Officer and a Gentleman -"I got   nowhere else to go!" Instead, there is a  someone else to be,  like Chuck Noland in Cast Away discovers,  stuck standing in the middle of a crossroads; finally accepting  having been stripped of his old life, and suddenly finding himself not knowing his next move. And yet, that's ok. Refusal of the Return Campbell describes- So why, when all has been achieved, the ambrosia has been drunk, and we have conversed with the gods, why come back to normal life with all its cares and woes?. My ship has been unmoored for so long, I don't know where to drop anchor. I thought it would be easy to resume the 2007 Aloha, and it was. I thought it would give back the comfort of the familiar. It has not. Has it only been three weeks?...

Volcanic fog or Vog is in the air today. This is Pele,and I don't mean the Brazilian soccer pro, You've just been just been shot...by Peter Lik. watch At night the red glare was visible 7miles at sea as we used to sail past in the night to see the this   force of nature, this slumbering volcano, wreathed in clouds, occasionally emitting smoke and fire; and me, like a soothsayer, attempted to interpret. The only thing I know is you can't win a Volcano.

I'm on the Big Island again after a 4 years break; on the west side, at the local Starbucks, for some Kona Joe , sitting with my friends cream and sugar. American coffee is "dirty water" and Instant coffee takes too long. Kona, however,is not a drug.It's a vitamin.

What is it about these root systems  that socks us in the figurative solar plexus. Only Mother nature can make a tree---probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. Corporation Oahu  is still a goldmine for romantic twovelists and sentimental videographers, bar-room bloggers and semi-literate tourists, sociologists and U of H Ph.D. students,  sailing evangelists, NGO experts. At ABC (Aloha Bring Cash), the merchants of Paradise-Sovenir kitsch, are the memes (thought viruses) for sale- from the hilariously romantic posters through the pseudo-scholarly to the infuriatingly racist postcards; from the noble savage literary school through Margaret Mead and all her comings of age, Somerset Maugham's puritan missionaries/drunks/and saintly whores and James Michener's rascals and golden people, to the stereotyped childlike pagan who needs to be steered to the Light....and it all starts with a tree...if I could only construct the remains of the day in such a...

 Making waves on the island of Oahu.  The way to ‘get there’ is to ‘be there’  It’s that simple.  Chancey Gardener: This is just like television, only you can see much further. 

Life After Luau A good-bye is never painful unless you're never going to say hello again.Aloha Maui. Aloha Oahu. I know travel zoos are no longer in my good graces.Neither is eating on a cruise ship.  Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. Life off the cruise ships ,however,isn't much of a culinary life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. I have to pay for stuff...as  in food stuffs. This is certainly different from the  luaus and eat-what-you-kill safaris and big game fishing expeditions I took this year, where no matter where I was ,the stuffed animals on display all looked the same. Staged authenicity and First rule of cruise club-never miss a meal.Second rule-don't forget the first, and don't miss the 6pm all aboard. It has been predictable as an episode of Seinfeld. Yadi yada yada. No more choc-a-holic and midnight buffets. My favorite food on the ships had been ...

The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off: Shoveling  sunshine in paradise instead of snow in the mainland. No rain. No rainbows. No snow, however, no snowmen. There may be some frosted flakes here on the valley isle but no white Christmas'. No worries because I have found the good in goodbye to cold weather.All I want for Xmas is a sun tan.

The sum of my problems is the inability to sit quietly alone on a beach! It is easy to mistake motion for progress and no problem is so big and complicated that it cannot be run away from. I know what to do-swim with my friends the dolphins. Nothing Is The Hardest Thing To Do.

Skip to story Hawaii · Pacific Ocean · Island Wisdom Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean The Hawaiians say it. The islands teach it. Love, like the ocean, is larger than anything we can decide in advance. See Full Image Open Original Show Text Story Position · The Elixir Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The First Lesson “Never turn your back on the ocean.” 01 · Respect The Ocean Is Never Background The Hawaiians say never turn your back on the ocean. It makes sense to me. Beauty and power occupy the same horizon. 02 · Love Some Things Cannot Be Chosen in Advance The love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens....

Hawaiian Islands Adventures - Complete Paradise Timeline HAWAIIAN ISLANDS COMPLETE PARADISE ADVENTURE "From Big Island to Maui • Shoveling Sunshine • Island Life" Kona Coffee & Blue Hawaii Kona has coffee; and where there is coffee there is caffeine, and where there is caffeine, there is Starbucks and the opportunity to do stupid things faster. Kona's ocean water almost always reflects a blue Hawaii that leaves me thinking "Where is the ukulele and Elvis sightings?" "American coffee is 'dirty water' and Instant coffee takes too long. Kona, however, is 'Ono'. Tastes good." ...

Local Coffee Is My Cup of Tea Maui Grown is not a drug.It's a vitamin. Starbucks is karaoke coffee, a not so cheap imitation. Juan Valdez and Joe Kona better head for the hills.  This is Handsome Coffee.You can take your coffee to go, but I recommend drinking in your coffee and the morning sitting out on the lanai. The Average Joe Haikus are easy/But sometimes they don't make sense/Starbucks  

Maui Journey: Island Awakening Timeline 🌺 Breaking: Paradise located in Maui • Serendipity levels at all-time high • Google Maps officially OUT, Cosmic Cartography IN • Local reports: Pizza bringing universal enlightenment • Weather forecast: 100% chance of island magic • Aloha spirit confirmed contagious • Trade winds carrying good vibes 🌴 MAUI AWAKENING A Timeline of Island Transformation 🛬 Landing in Kahului Trying to English Aloha! These are the days when I start to think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. When I landed in Kahului, things started to take off. I was on a different plane. I didn't wake up. I came to. Cool, unlying life rushed...

Declassified File CG-011 · Mexico / Key West / At Sea The Cruising Godfather The Hemingway File Cabo, Cozumel, Key West, bicycles, blue water, and the covert operation of converting money back into time. See Full Image Open Evidence Locker Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir 011 Mission Brief After Monday and Tuesday, all that was left in Cabo was W T F, eh? Last November I was in Baja, Mexico. A year later the memory still arrives like intelligence from another life: sun-struck, salt-stained, and slightly unbelievable. The official explanation was that I was travelling. The operational truth was more complicated. I was testing a theory: that a person could denounce the cult of permanence, convert money back into time, and exchange potential income ...