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Shoreham By Sea, UK

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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...

Je Me Souviens: The Year the World Unfolded

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

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