Chasing The Blue Beyond

Cruising is not a fashion statement but a serious quest to renew love and power in my life. This is not love at first sight. This is love with insight. Love on $0 Dollars A Day, I can’t afford not to take the love vacation. Whenever I start is the right time, so today is the day I am going on a  permanent  love vacation! I don't see things as they are; I see them as I am. When I am able to  enlighten up, and tune in to  The Frequency  I  live in this vastness, swimming  in the ocean that mystics call ONE TASTE Love shows up all the time. At this point, I cannot avoid love in everyday life. I can only avoid seeing it. It is simple, free and easily available .My ultimate destiny is to turn my whole world into a love frequency. It is nothing short of ordinary. . The Horse Latitudes We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore  We can laugh our lives away and be free once more"   I  realize my soul is from elsewhere, and, ...

 Reprint: 10/2012 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. Man In The Mirror- Zaza Hotel in the Museaum District 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 ju...

Vegas: The Art of Calculated Risk | Ed Reif Ed Reif Authenticity Resilience Happiness Travel Vegas: The Art of Calculated Risk Where Fortune Favors the Philosophically Bold "Just the right amount of wrong—burned off the mass hysteria that permeated me last time I was here. Vegas is actually a quieting experience, as if I have a different kind of nervous system." When Nietzsche thinks of Venice, he thinks of death. When I think of Vegas, I think of zombies—the living dead. But here's the paradox: sometimes you need to visit the land of artificial dreams to wake up to authen...

Fear is for folks who don’t get out much Instant Gratification Takes To Long After spending 8 months a year for the last 10 years living out of a suitcase, it is easy to reflect on the value of thoughtful travel. I call it "Taking Yourself With You". There is no such thing as work-life-vacation balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. One rarely falls in love with people without being equally attracted to what is interestingly wrong with them. Travel, at its best is creative destruction. In the wisdom of the moment,the power of new  language, food and culture and people are not problems to be solved but mysteries to be lived. The whole exercise has to be reconciliation.Lowering, removing or shattering the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate we human beings, one from another. It's not so much about being understood as understanding. The Hunt For Happy-   is the longing for repetition. The difference between hope and despair is a different wa...

MY LIFE, BASED ON A TRUE STORY is downright paranormal. How the hell did I get here? Whatever talent I possess(ed)  is on loan from some deity, some unimaginable source and force for some exquisite portion of  time, to be passed on when I am finished. The most extraordinary aspects of my being didn't come from me. The spark(s) of epiphanies that I occasionally get are less about being a genius  and more about having a genie---Making  Wishes. Showing Up. Being T/Here.Fear is for folks who don't get out very much. Outdoors Is In! "When you define me, you negate me'--so  let me tell my own idiosyncratic story. My autobiography gives dignity and meaning to me and the YOUniverse. Life's Change Agent When  I started  blogging about  my  own experiences at sea, and the blessings and  gifts of this unique life style, I  started to answer the question-What is the meaning of life? I Got One! Find What You Love And Let It K...

The tour lengths get shorter-14 Daze Panama Canal Crossing is done. California  was created to  provide a place for boats to visit. Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. " Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.  " Herman Melville I can relate to that quote-Hospitality jobs are a safety net for the "middle classes"; jobs of last resort when the w2 salaried gigs are unavailable. Since they are so  low paying, people quit and there is high turn over.  I simply wanted to travel around the world. I wrote: Call it faith!  A passion for the possible. I am full of it, and shooting from the hip that is to say,   as I stated, having  an adventure  is something more but nothing less than bad planning.  When I cold-called for  my first ship job...

On a cruise ship, you have this malignant optimism. Optimism is the opium of the passenger.  There is no doubt about it, the exhilarating state of mind that travel can evoke, when everything seems suddenly fresh, vivid, intensely interesting, and memorable-Things have a way of seeming emphasized and  underlined. The speed of trust---trusting in advance what can only makes sense in reverse October 2011, I wrote:   San Pedro-Hotel California Normally, you need three things to travel-Time, Money and Opportunity. It's the way of the cynic who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing Welcome to the  Hotel @nyware , located on  Blogger , at the corner of  Facebook   and  Twitte r , right across from  YouTub e  and   Picasa  ¨ You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave. It has never been about resources. You see, I am the Bobby Fisher of resourcefulness, the Cosmo Kramer of plann...

Putting the He in Hero, all action/adventure films have the same moral: Perseverance pays. Of all the things I am not very content at doing,living on land is the most outstanding. I was an armchair sea dog dreaming of going places, now, a  traveling sea dog dreaming of staying put. Dolphin Stampede Today Leaving a ritual and habit of ordinary living,  I embarked  on an unplanned trip and become an accidental sailor. You can teach an old DOGma new tricks. For reasons of necessity rather than a sense of innate wanderlust, I am at sea because it gives  me something to do and a place to be. Magnetized and full of charisma, I always managed to stay on course, without realizing it. 20,000 Leagues Into My Brain I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much I love being at sea. Maybe what matters is who I am when I’m  doing it. I’m my best self.    Character is doing what’s right when no one is looking. All of ones problems come from the inability ...

Cabo San Lucas: Hotel @nyware & The 3 Pound YOUniverse 🌊 🐟 🎨 🧠 Cabo San Lucas: Hotel @nyware The 3 Pound YOUniverse & The Geography of Mind "I am not a businessman, I am a business, man!" Trip #11 Tomorrow's Journey I'll be in Cabo San Lucas tomorrow. Last times 10/11 went like this... Each visit has been a canvas for understanding the deeper geography of consciousness. Self Employment sometimes made harder by difficult boss That's what the locals are doing here $elling everything- It's a pain in the English. Cabo San Lucas locals speak English as a second language. Money is their first...