Chasing The Blue Beyond

Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mamma. Another week at sea onboard the Disney Magic. It all starts on embarkation day here in Texas.

Like suburban California without Los Angry Cars. Self Employment sometimes made harder by difficult boss- "I am not a businessman, I am a business, man!" That's what the locals are doing here $elling everything- It's a pain in the English. Cozumel  locals speak English as a second language. Money is their first one.

The Top 5 Most Boring Cities On Planet Earth 🏢 😴 🚇 📋 ☁️ The Top 5 Most Boring Cities On Planet Earth "Where Dreams Go To Die" #5 Singapore The Happy Dictatorship where the Thought Police give tickets for wearing headphones or chewing gum in public. It's just a clean, convenient place to stop over before moving on. Singapore: Where efficiency meets soul-crushing conformity. Every street looks the same, every rule is enforced, and every spontaneous moment is taxed. See: A Pain In The English ...

    Man In The Mirror- Zaza Hotel in the Museaum District  When I think Texas, I think Cows and Cowboy, a mashup of the Deep South and The Wild West but here in metropolitan Houston, it is impossible not reach the conclusion that this is the energy capital of the world. Evidence of the fossil fuels  workforce is everywhere. Down-to-earth, international, very friendly, Houston  has that water-cooler vibe where everything is petroleum based. It's easy to think that Exon Mobile and Shell are "Big Oil" but in reality, having traveled around the globe, most  of world oil reserves, and an even greater % of the remaining reserves of “easy oil” are held by national oil companies controlled by kings and  governements like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela ,Norway and Russia.    The 5 Most Boring Cities in the World I Visited   Singapore- The Happy Dicatorship where the Thought Police give tickets for wearing headphones or chewing gum in public.It's just a cle...

Alaska · Ship Life · The Power of New The Elixir · Resourcefulness Planet Pick Axe You can mine for gold, or you can sell pickaxes. I went to sea to monetize my best asset—myself—and discovered that the richer currency was time, story, reinvention, and the people who made the voyage endure. Alaska Entrepreneurship Ship / Shift Time Millionaire Rust Never Sleeps See Full Image Go to the Elixir Show Story Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir “My universe is made of stories, not atoms.” Land, air, sea, and the power of now became my curriculum. The scenery painted itself. I was only the middleman—the witness who learned that some experiences cannot be created. They must be und...

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...