Chasing The Blue Beyond

Magical Thinking at Sea · A Photographic Field Note Living Well Is the Best Revenge The voyage was never only about new landscapes. It was about developing new eyes: using photographs, imagination, and years at sea to rehearse a life—and then discovering that the rehearsal had become real. New Eyes Photographic Memory Magical Thinking World Cruises See Full Image Show Story “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” The camera captured where I had been. Imagination kept showing me where I might go next. 01 Ordinary World · The Camera Everyone has a photographic memory. Not everyone has film. Digital photography turned fleeting moments int...

Rudyard Kipling once said Milford Sound is the eighth wonder of the world.  National Geographic Traveler Magazine  selected Norway as  the top natural tourist attraction in the world. After visiting Norway in 2010, and the Milford and Dusky Sound in 2011--it's Same Same--- only different. All that remains is- The Persistence Of Norway. A  good blog post should includes a waterfall. So Norway's fjords are blogasms. The Flords are Norway's Ecstasy. The definition of ecstasy is that you are not doing your ordinary everyday routine....essentially stepping into an alternative reality.This is the second time I have sailed in these fjords. It's like opening a door in the middle of nowhere and all you have to do is go and turn the handle and open it and let yourself sink into it, and just float.. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and th...

 People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive. ~ The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell This world cruise has been one  of the most rewarding forms of introspection. It is one stage of my “re-entry” in Hotel @nyware, continuing my extended break from Normal Life again to travel the world on board another cruise ship. I’m living my dream of PT-Permanent Travel, also known as "Mini Retirements".  I haven’t been everywhere, but it is on my list. As I document this adventure, this  a round-the-world travelogue, I say to myself "Roam Sweet Roam". Home is not where my heart is but where my computer is- I remain a digital nomad, where  Anywhere becomes @nyware, location neutral, as there is no such thing as a bad piece of real estate when you use technology and social media. As I make my way to Sri Lanka, in the middle of nowhere, but...

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 e mail or going to  Starbucks.  I fold up my self and carry "me"around as if I were a gym bag. CDG-Charles De Gaulle Airport is no exception.  Unchecked Baggage- My Airport My Self 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. Yet photographing this with my Android is not PC, so I took this photo on my MAC iPhone  because there  are more iPhones sold per day (402k) than people born in the World per day (300k). And that is cool!  Reprint from 11/10 I meet therefore I am- a multinational soul. I shrink therefore  I am part of — and apart from  American, European and Asian culture. and the  countries I visit(ed) and live(d) in  are as eclectic and restless as airports I "i...

You know, addiction isn't the problem - it's the solution-  When all you care about is here, this is a good   place to be On Devil's Island How come you ended up in a place like this? Favoritism. Reprint 2011 WC- Welcome to the penal colony at Devil's Island, whose prisoners you are, and from which there is no escape."   This was the greeting that awaited prisoners to the penal colonies. Now Devil's Island IS the escape. I always talk in Bumper Stickers-Instant gratification takes too long Tender Boating Escape to Reality Ile des Pins, New Caledonia-Papillon “Addicted to traveling”  or for that matter “Addicted to all-non working activities” shouldn’t be  a new reason for self-hatred or a diagnosis, rather a pursuit like the arts and entertainment, that permit self-exploration and satisfy your psycho-social needs.   You see, in general, if a pastime is not classy, those who love it are labeled with the Dr Phil-Drew-Oprah Psycho Babble rhetoric ...

Papeete, French Polynesia / World Cruise Reprint Tahiti: Travels in Hyperreality Less than twenty-four hours in port—and a paradise already performing its own mythology. See Full Image Show Text Field Note 01 Reprinted from the World Cruise 2011 post . With less than twenty-four hours in port, the locals and the locale are living up to their stereotypes: Tiki-style roofs, tropical gardens, swaying palm trees—and the visual souvenir that, like the postman, always delivers. The beautiful Tahitian women, with raven hair falling nearly to their knees, hand-weave leis effortlessly while wrapping themselves in watercolor-flowered sarongs. This is modern Papeete: a post-colonial suburb of Paris with a ukulele soundtrack. Arrival by Water One thing is certain: they all came ...

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." Jean-Paul Sartre 2009  Season: OMG! WTF?    Roll Video The future is full of possibilities that I must constantly shoot in the head, because if you want something GR8, you must be able to limit yourself.   #1 BUI: Embracing The Life Forced Upon Me--OMG! WTF? I have nothing in common with myself anymore #2: Insulin Shock and Awe, eating the Celebrity Solstice #3.Ed Reif and James Hopkins; making the world safe for Hypocracy..er ..I mean Democracy in the cradle of Western civilization---Athens, Greece #4 Buddha Boy Ed Reif ---From Monk to Millionaire--- in Sint Maarteen--It ain't much if it ain't Dutch Success is continued enthusiasm despite failure after failure #5.Never go on trips with anyone you do not love #6 You(th) are as young as your spine is flexible. #7 What color is your Parachute Money? #8 I am at one with the chainsaw. British Virgin islands #9 And did we tell you the name of the game, boy We call ...