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...

Royals'-Navigator and Freedom of the Seas Passengers debarking I am an AmeriCAN not an AmeriCAN’T And you are MEXICANS It s nice to know that I can   STILL pay for things in a currency that no longer exists-the US Dollar. Not as pretty as Cabo San Lucas  on the Pacific Ocean in the sea of Cortez, still Cozumel has a Carib-Los Angeles vibe-In fact it’s like going through one of the barrios off the Harbor Freeway 110 or the 105, without the traffic and Los Angry Cars . I would have liked to work in this beautiful tourist trap-Forgetaboutit -expats. Locals are able  to fill tourism  jobs in the region. There is a leveled playing field here in Cozumel.  An endangered species: The expat They speak Money  here as the first language and money is not the key to happiness, but the happy go locals  figure  if  they  have enough money, they  can have a key made. English is their second language They get it that It’s no longer  a pain...

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...

Cozumel One day my life will flash before my eyes. I am making sure it’s worth watching. My life hasn't gotten better by chance; it’s gotten better by change.   By changing nothing, nothing changes. When in doubt, I always have chosen change.   All these changes, however, were preceded by chaos, and the bridges I burned, have lit the way.Yet, at what point is choice--the watermark   of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish--becomes a point of diminishing returns, a "problem" instead of a solution---That is the paradox of choice. There is no YES, in yesterday, and when you are sailing, you are what you are right there and then.   Honduras My   bizarre travel plans have been dancing lessons from God. As soon as anyone starts telling me to be realistic, I cross that person off my invitation list. We are still friendly but no longer friends because they don’t get   IT that if you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much spac...

  This is a favorite port of call.Traveling by sea  gives me the sense of inhabiting my own life. Cruising is the gateway 'drug' to paradise. WYSIWYG-What you see is what you get- I do not create the Caribbean blue ocean, the white powder sandy beaches. Rather they are gifts to me. What I write about comes out of gratitude for being t/here. There are seven days of the week and someday is not one of them. I'm glad I'm sailing today Last month I was The Hyper Organized Intentional Traveler, complete with checklists, sunscreen and "travel clothes"verses  right now The Lite Traveler, on a shoe string budget and the shirt off/on his your back. This  one feels so much better.

Sunny Place For Shady People- Ship Happens A trillion+ US dollars are parked here, most of it in trust and hedge funds. Over 19,000 entities doing business here (well-on paper) you know like in Newport Beach, CA Mailbox etc. It's the Delaware of the Caribbean. A sunny place for shady people? With a big helping of Hollywood, and The Firm, this place has become the global villain but is it really such a bad thing-capitalism I mean.

What am I on? I'm on a ship! You think of Reggae, and then Bob ...I'll tell you what Marley realized. If you go off into the quiet parts of Jamaica, and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything...and no, you don't have to do drugs to feel this ---you are drugs! Nuh in local patois mean don't - so No Woman DON'T Cry...he assures me, Every thing's Gonna be alright, Yet if Vegas is where neon goes to die, then this is certainly the resting place of "Legend" and "One Love" Bob Marley Nostalgia. The music still stands the test of time, and Bob Marley is an American Idol, but the country needs an extreme makeover. Been a while-3 years ago today I was @ The GR8  Barrier Reef off the coast of Carins, Australia

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 Museum 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  governments like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela ,Norway and Russia.   The 5 Most "Plain Vanillia" 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 clean, ...