Chasing The Blue Beyond

October 2011 · Hotel @nyware The Call Trust First. Understand Later. On a cruise ship, optimism becomes a kind of operating system: everything feels more vivid, more possible, and more memorable. The strange part is that the meaning usually arrives after the movement. Cruise Life Resourcefulness Trust Hotel @nyware 2011 Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir On a cruise ship, you have this malignant optimism. Optimism is the opium of the passenger. There is no doubt about it: travel can trigger an exhilarating state of mind where everything suddenly feels fresh, vivid, intensely interesting, and memorable. Things have a way of seeming emphasized and underlined. That is the speed of trust: trusting in advance what can o...

LG- Life is Good in Cabo. I've gone nativein a Col Kurtz sort of way, drinking tequila, and sporting a Hecho in Mexico Straw  Cowboy hat--

Cabo · Puerto Vallarta · Saudi Arabia · Thailand · Macau · Las Vegas · Mediterranean The Elixir In One Year and Out the Other A restless year of ports, poker, beer, reinvention, and one recurring question: what happens when the world becomes the itinerary? See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir 01 In Revue What a Wonderful World I say to myself: what a wonderful world. Today, the song remains the same. A year earlier, I wrote from Mexico. The places changed. The appetite for movement did not. Roll Video The Song Remains the Same ...

Key West · Mexican Riviera · New Caledonia · Nomadic Pursuits Answer the Call The Sea Is the Destination An adventure is something more—but nothing less—than bad planning. The sea turns that imperfect plan into an occupation. See Full Image Key West Funemployment New Caledonia Isle of Pines Escape to Reality Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir An adventure is something more—but nothing less—than bad planning. As a multinational soul, I thought I would have a Coke and teach the world to sing. The importance of being Ernest and going to Key West was less about Hemingway, fishing, and sailboats than the permission to invent a life and then live into it. Field Doctrine Motio...

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” –G. K. Chesterton. The older I get, the better my past gets. This is my magic bench, where I began my science of achievement experience of making the invisable visable and in the process have had moments of extreme fullfillment on simply advancing confidentially in the directions of my dreams, meeting with a success unknown in common hours.

Foreign Land · Cabo Mind, Body and Cabo Growing old is not optional. Growing up is. Somewhere between Dylan, myth and the sea, chronological time stopped behaving itself. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir “There must be some kind of way out of here,” I wrote last year... apparently not. “Said the joker to the thief.” All Along the Watchtower is the audacity of Dylan’s hype at manipulating chronological time: at the conclusion of the last verse, it is as if the song bizarrely begins at last, and the power of myth begins again. My own aging is regressive these days, not progressive. I am the Bob Dylan of the fifty-somethings. Growing old is not optional. Growing up is. ...