Chasing The Blue Beyond

Cruisers, talk to each other, and  influences each other.  So progress gets amplified through WOM, Word of Mouth..  The more people who have ocean cruised, the more who will tell others, the more who will want to take an ocean cruise too. I am doing my part by blogging about my travels. Here are my TOP 9 SWEET SPOTS- 1. Santorini, Greece Let The Orinoco Flow 2.Maldives, Islands Consciousness Is Wireless 3. Bora Bora Tahiti-Stopover In Paradise 4. The Fjords of Norway   Mother Nature and Father Time Are Effin  Special 5. The Fjords of New Zealand Milford Sound-Are We There Yet? 6.Full World Cruise L.A.To London in 110 Days 7. The Oasis Of The Seas Game Changer- The Ship IS the destination.  Remarkable.   This   225,282-ton, 5,400-passenger colossus that cost Royal Caribbean $1.4 billion.    I t only ends once-anything before that is just progress Too much cruise ship? ...

Great stopover on My 50 Shades of Blue Tour.Grand Cayman, like The Postman, always delivers. Partly cloudy with a chance of Paradise. 

Time Machine: A Personal Journey ⏰ Time Machine: A Personal Journey From Peak Performance to Global Explorer 🚢 The journey continues - where fitness meets adventure Age 40 🏃‍♂️ The Old Age of Youth Age 40 marked the pinnacle of physical achievement - the "old age of youth." This was the era of ultimate dedication, discipline, and peak performance. 8% Body Fat Six Pack Abs 26.2...

The Delaware of the Pacific, 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).

Anytime IS Key West Time Procrastinate Now Key West (KW) Has A Crush On Me  Key West has an  idea on how to spend  time: Do nothing. This is the "personality"  and PACE of KW. Once you make the conscious choice to  tune into it, the ocean awaits---it's the space between things. Music is the space between the notes. What is the space between MY notes? My souls rhythm. It leaves room for surprise and anticipation. Being at sea for a few days, I went on a digital diet-no internet. Spaces were created by holding back information-It works. The Japanese concept of Ma,(negative space, pause, The Gap) is in full bloom.  Essentially, what is NOT going to happen today! Taking it easy, allowing things to happen rather than Being Busy. When I lived in Tokyo, nobody ever said no. One of the ways Nihon Jins said no, was the time they took between saying YES. That long pause is the space between things. Yes I Don't-- I didn't get it (The Joy of "w...

Castaway Cay: A Timeline of Memories 🌴 Castaway Cay: A Timeline of Memories Journey through 1000 acres of reimagined paradise in the Bahamas 🌴 On Land it's South Africa and America. Our stopovers are on Disney's Private Island – 1000 acres of reimagined paradise in the Bahamas. Past Era 🏴‍☠️ The Smuggler's Secret Once used as a stop for drug smugglers—think "Snow White" or "White Snow." There is an airstrip on the island, but it is no longer in regular use nor maintained. Its unusual isolation became the perfect hideaway for those who preferred to stay off the radar. Hidden History: Though seemingly remote, this ...

Leaving Port today 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. 4 years ago, @The GR8 Barrier Reef

A Tropical Field Guide · Ports of Call · Coconut Years Around the World in 80 Coconuts Nicaragua. Dominica. Thailand. Barbados. Costa Rica. Madeira. Jamaica. Honduras. At every port, the ritual was the same: find a coconut, open it, drink slowly, and let the island explain itself. Coconut Quest Island Time Port Ritual Travel Archive Experience Over Claims See Full Image Show Story I called it the cure. The real medicine was movement. The coconut was never just a drink. It was a small ceremony performed at the edge of each new place. The old dispatches were enthusiastic—sometimes gloriously overenthusiastic—about coconut water. I treated every green shell like a portable transfusion, a tropical pharmacy and proof that paradise came with a straw. Looking back, the larger truth is simpler. The ritual made me stop. It made me taste the weather, the market, the language and the latitude. ...

I didn't invent the hypothetical situation, but let's just suppose for a second that I did, that I was sailing on  a ship, and had an "existential" moment, a little flash of sunlight on a cobalt blue sea.  Nothing really happens in the past, Everything that’s ever happened /for/to me happened in the present moment. That’s all there ever is. So my relationship to life isn’t my  relationship to my past, it’s my relationship to the present moment. Who would I be without my story (past)? If you don't have one, you don't have to live up to it. What's left then--Just Now. That's the value proposition of travel: It's a come as you are affair. "I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading...