Chasing The Blue Beyond

Galveston · March 2014 Operation Keep Your Fingers Crossed A harbour collision, an oil spill, a closed port, and one ship waiting for permission to leave. See Full Image Show Text Hotel @nyware Galveston Harbour Deck 5 Heliport March 2014 On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Galveston had an environmental emergency of its own. Harbour Note 01 Port Closed A ship had collided with a barge, leaving the harbour closed while the United States Coast Guard assessed the situation. From the Deck 5 helicopter pad, the view was excellent. The prospects of leaving were less certain. Operation Keep Your Fingers Crossed was officially underway. A view of the port from the heliport. Waiting out the harbou...

Cozumel · Mexico · Caribbean Field Notes I Am an AmeriCAN, Not an AmeriCAN’T A tourist trap, a Caribbean Los Angeles, a level playing field, and a place where money speaks first and English comes second. See Full Image Enter Cozumel Show Text The Call The Place The Language The Elixir The Call I Am an AmeriCAN, Not an AmeriCAN’T “It is nice to know that I can still pay for things in a currency that no longer exists: the U.S. dollar.” Foreign Land Cozumel Has a Caribbean Los Angeles Vibe Navigator and Freedom of the Seas Passengers debarking into a place built to absorb the energy of tourism. An Endangered Species: The Expat Locals fill the tourism jobs. The playing field is level, and the fantasy of importing yourse...

Grand Cayman · Paradise / Prosperity · Caribbean Archive A Sunny Place for Shady People Grand Cayman, where paradise meets prosperity and every postcard carries a balance sheet on the reverse. Fifty shades of blue above the waterline; offshore mythology below it. Fifty Shades of Blue Georgetown Harbor Red Snapper Stingray Archive A Decade of Returns See Full Image Show Story Grand Cayman, like the postman, always delivers. The package changes. The address does not: fifty shades of blue, a little theater, and one more reason to distrust a postcard. The island arrived first as color. Water, sky, shallows and distance kept rearranging the same blue until the eye gave up trying to name it. Paradise was easy to photograph. The harder work was seeing what else had been delivered. Blue Air Fish Finance Return 01 Ordinary world · forecast Partly cloudy with a chance of paradise. A stopover can be enough wh...

Land · Air · Sea · The Power of Now The Elixir Work Is Prayer A nautical odyssey through solitude, ships, multinational identity, time wealth, and the transformation that begins when the journey itself becomes home. See Full Hero Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir 01 A Universe of Stories Consecrated by the Ocean My universe is made of stories, not atoms: land, air, sea travel, and the power of now. If I wanted to become a multinational soul, I could not do it in cities where I taught English—New York, Los Angeles, Paris, or Tokyo—alone. I needed to be consecrated by sailing on the oceans. The Opening Equation Story + Movement + Ocean = Multinational ...

The Cruising Godfather · Foreign Land · Cozumel, Mexico Declassified Port File Cozumel: AnyFin Is Possible A favourite port of call becomes a field note on blue water, gratitude, improvised freedom, and the deep pleasure of finally inhabiting your own life. Open Companion Story Original Archive Cruising Godfather Hero's Journey Asymmetrical Living Cozumel Traveling Light Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Traveling by sea gives me the sense of inhabiting my own life. Cruising is the gateway drug to paradise. This is a favourite port of call because it does not need embellishment. Cozumel arrives like a visual t...