Chasing The Blue Beyond

Florida · Palm Beach · Cocoa Beach · Port Canaveral Foreign Land Florida: America's Australia Heat, hurricanes, love bugs, alligators, cruise ports, retirement rehearsals, and the strange truth that the Sunshine State is both launch pad and punchline. See Full Image Sunshine State Cruise Ports Cocoa Beach Palm Beach Kennedy Space Center Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Florida is America's Australia: not quite a prison colony, but definitely a sunny place for shady people. The whole state feels like coastline. It is hurricane-prone, and the only place it does not rain is indoors. But let us begin with the obvious: it is hot. All those retirees are doing a dress rehearsal for heck. When they finally arrive, it will be Boca Raton all over again. Field Rule Sunblock by Day. Insect Repellent by Night. Florida does not ask whether you are prepared. It simply deploys heat, humidity, mosqui...

California Years / Santa Monica / Pacific Landfall Harbor Without Moorings A Zen sailor comes ashore in Santa Monica and discovers that dry land moves too—only the currents are traffic, ambition, memory, and the difficult art of staying put. See Video Original Field Notes · 2018 Santa Monica before the hindsight. Pacific edge / Los Angeles The original visual journal appears first: moving pictures, Ocean Boulevard, Will Rogers, the mountains, Marina del Rey, Route 66, and the everyday California scenes that became the source material for the story that follows. Santa Monica moving picture archive. Ocean Boulevard Will Roger's State Park Taking a hike in the mountains California field video. With all the roads you take, make sure some of them are dirt The quintessential California car—the 1963 Corvette convertible. I'm too big for it now—Not much leg room. ...