Chasing The Blue Beyond

Reprint from 2018 Brighton / Sea Years / Reinvention No Noose Is Good News A travel writer runs out of worlds to conquer, comes ashore on the English Channel, counts his blessings, and discovers that a bicycle can turn friction into momentum. See Full Image ⚓ Back Home In West Sussex Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Trial “If you smell something burning, it is my future as a travel writer going up in smoke.” The future of voyage journaling just isn’t what it used to be. I visited enough inhospitable and exotic locations—human Petri dishes from Angkor Wat to the Philippines, India, and Dakar—but the shock-and-awe omnivore revelations eventually felt like stunts. What remained was the elevated sense of oth...

Beyond the 2011 Archive Jump Ahead Continue from the 364-day record into the larger sea story: the chapter, the accidental sailor, the magical-thinking retrospective, and funemployment. The Sea Chapter The Accidental Sailor Magical Thinking Funemployment

The Cruising Godfather · Foreign Land · Florida Declassified Inland-Water File Sunshine and Lake Water Flying low along the Lake Tohopekaliga shoreline, the day revealed water lilies, reeds, blue heron, osprey, ducks, a baby alligator, and even a juvenile bald eagle. Open Original Dispatch Lake Tohopekaliga Florida Wildlife Cruising Godfather Hero's Journey Asymmetrical Living Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The boat moved low enough for the shoreline to become a living field guide. Flying low on the Lake Tohopekaliga shoreline, we sailed past water lilies and reeds. Blue heron stood in the shallows. Osprey worked the s...

The Cruising Godfather · Answer the Call · Florida Declassified Space File I Still Need My Space A field note on youthful American bravado, test pilots, competency under pressure, the cost of exploration, and the people who make the impossible feel operational. NASA Test Pilots Florida Space Coast Competency Asymmetrical Living Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Youthful American bravado was never just the shiny suit or the NASA logo. It was the willingness to climb into a capsule powered by controlled violence and trust that competency would bring you home. The mythology matters because it contains a standard. The early test pilots did not eliminate fear....