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...

Wish Fulfillment · The Law of Attraction The Elixir Four Years of Magical Thinking Imagination was the preview. Travel became the proof. Photography gave the fleeting moment a form that could return. Hawaii World Tours World Cruise Photography Magical Thinking Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. Thanks to digital—and my trusted camera—who cares? Just point and shoot, and you capture snapshots of moments. I am an extremely talkative person. Yet I like taking pictures because they speak for themselves. Field Note Imagination Is the Preview The photograph is evidence that what once existed only in the mind eventually entered the frame. 01 Ordinary World · The Call The Mind Leaves First Before movement comes the ability to see beyond the room you are standing in. My definition of thinking is when...

Venice Beach · The Left Coast The Call The Power of NOW Between Venice Beach and Santa Monica, the Pacific edge becomes an operating system: show up, move, make wishes, and let the story change you. Venice Beach Santa Monica Reinvention The Pacific Edge Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir My life, based on a true story, is downright paranormal. How the hell did I get here? Field Note 01 · Being T/Here A Genius—or a Genie? Whatever talent I possess—or possessed—is on loan from some deity, some unimaginable source and force, for some exquisite portion of time. It is here to be passed on when I am finished. The most extraordinary aspects of my being did not come from me. The sparks of epiphany I occasionally get are less about being a genius and more about having a ge...

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...

The Sea Years · Accidental Sailor 20,000 Leagues Into My Brain I was once an armchair sea dog dreaming of going places. Then I became a travelling sea dog dreaming of staying put. See Full Image Read the Story Alaska Action Plan Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Field Note 01 Putting the “he” in hero, every action-adventure film carries the same moral: perseverance pays. Of all the things I am not very content doing, living on land is the most outstanding. I was an armchair sea dog dreaming of going places. Now I am a travelling sea dog dreaming of staying put. Leaving the ritual and habit of ordinary living, I embarked on an unplanned trip and became an accidental sailor. You can tea...