Deja Blue-Sixth Sense
Deja Blue
Top destinations to visit before you die—and the places, ships and impossible horizons that made a life at sea feel inevitable.
While it's easy to focus on cruising because of its high profile, the fact is cruising is neither the source or cause of the virus or its spread. What is different about the cruise industry is the very stringent reporting requirements applicable to vessels that do not apply to comparable venues on land where the spread of communicable disease is just as prevalent. It would be a false assumption to connect higher frequency and visibility in reporting to a higher frequency of infection.CLIA
Cruisers talk to each other and influence each other. Progress gets amplified through WOM—word of mouth. The more people who have ocean-cruised, the more who tell others, and the more who want to take an ocean cruise too. I am doing my part by blogging about my travels.
Location. Location. Location.
The Deja Blue list: destinations remembered not as pins on a map, but as changes in altitude, weather, scale and state of mind.
Once Around Without Leaving the Ground
The route is geography. The memory is weather, scale, rhythm and the people who shared the rail.
When the Ship Becomes the Destination
Engineering, passage-making and the edge of the map complete the life list.
Oasis of the Seas
Game Changer — The Ship Is the Destination
A 225,282-ton, 5,400-passenger colossus built at a reported cost of $1.4 billion. Too much cruise ship? Quantity is its own kind of quality.
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The Hawaiian Islands
1994 — My First Ship: SS Constitution, a Rust Bucket with a Lot of Heart
Read the story →With only a few days on land to chase a ship down in Australia and the United States. The account became 364 days—more like DAZE—once around without leaving the ground.
Travel Makes the World Vivid Again
There is no doubt about the exhilarating state of mind travel can evoke—when everything seems suddenly fresh, vivid, intensely interesting and memorable.
Travelling by cruise ship—12 ports in 14 days—is like flirting with life. It is like saying: I want to love you, but I have to go. This is just the way it is.
It only ends once. Anything before that is just progress.
Go BIG or Go HOME. The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are, once you let go of the life you planned and accept the one waiting for you.
