Chasing The Blue Beyond

Cunard · Southampton · Maritime History Three Queens, One Magnificent City Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria return from their world cruises to Cunard’s historic home port. See Full Image QM2 in Hamburg Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Three Queens, one magnificent city. On Sunday, May 3, the Cunard fleet returned from their World Cruises. Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria gathered at Cunard’s home port of almost 100 years, with QM2 taking center stage in the celebration. Maritime Field Note 01 The Shortest Bridge Between New York and Europe Exactly 175 years earlier, Britannia left British waters bound for America. Since then, Queen Mary 2 has remained the only regularly scheduled oc...

TV was my babysitter, but the Internet is a drunk librarian  who won't shut up-It's nice to go on a digital diet-rural, primitive and circadian When the going was good... ...and you could leave no stone unturned If you smell something burning, it is my future as a travel writer  going up in smoke-  the future of Voyage Journaling  just ain't what it used to be. Sure, shock and awe omnivore revelations that everything is edible somewhere. Dogs, cats and rats come to mind. I certainly visited enough inhospitable  and   exotic locations, also known as "Human Petri Dishes"(Think GERMS)  from Angkor Wat (What?), The  Philippines to India and Dakar; but they're all STUNTS compared to the elevated sense of otherworldliness---a Travel By Proxy---  given  by Melville, Hemingway, Conrad, Kipling and  of course,  Basho's nomadic pursuits, which I emulate(d) in my own Scandinavian  version of  Narrow Road to The Interior , ...

You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in  fields of gold All You Need Is Sting This English countryside reminds me of his 1993 hit; and the most amazing song I ever heard- Fields Of Gold - of enduring love and neither time nor death can change that. You'll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley.. .. Roll Video...

Portsmouth Harbour / The Camber / The Solent Foreign Land Naval Gazing Portsmouth Harbour, where iron, sail, memory and foiling speed occupy the same stretch of water. See Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Every time I walk into this port town, HMS Warrior is standing tall and proud. Portsmouth does not keep naval history behind glass. It leaves it in the misty saltwater air. The Call Walk Toward the Dockyard The harbour draws the eye from the city toward the waterline, where working port, historic fleet and low tide share the same frame. Portsmouth Harbour A working waterfront where history remains part of the daily view. On Foot Walking downt...

Running On the chalk headlands in Southern England, in November. England has such amazing Coastline. The Other side of the cliff- You could easily loose your footing, and the talc erodes constantly with rainfall.

Arundel / West Sussex / Medieval Imagination Visiting Arundel Castle, Again! It is never too late to have a good childhood imagination—or to let one old castle reopen the whole story. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Doorway “It’s never too late to have a good childhood imagination.” Visiting Arundel Castle, again. Rapunzel’s long blond hair falls from one of the towers toward her love. I can hear blacksmiths making weapons and townspeople cheering as knights collide in the joust. The castle is not merely stone. It is permission to enter the part of the mind that still knows how to turn walls into worlds. The Asymmetric Equation Place + Imagination = Time Travel ...