Chasing The Blue Beyond

2018 Hero's Journey Redux · Eastbourne, England Beachy Head: Summit All Up Nice The hero returns to the United Kingdom, leaves London's theatre behind and climbs to the edge of England—where ancient chalk, hard wind and the English Channel reduce a complicated life to one clean horizon. Return chapter South Downs Sea years January 2018 See Full Image Show Story Previously in the journey London gave me the language. Beachy Head removed the words. The city had been a stage: entrances, museums, music halls, Shakespeare and crowds. Eastbourne offered the opposite production—grass, chalk, weather and open water. The Hero's Journey had returned to the United Kingdom, but not to the same country I first entered at twenty. I had crossed oceans since then. I had learned to read harbors, gangways, weather and departure boards. Now the road climbed out of Eastbourne toward a summit where England seemed to stop abruptly ...

The Cruising Godfather: Declassified Files File CG-006 · France, Spain and England The Inner Map of Outer Journeys Creative destruction, geographic luck, fear, maritime movement and the private map rewritten by every crossing. View Surveillance Image Restore Briefing Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Series Classification The Cruising Godfather: Declassified Files is a literary persona: part memoir, part cinematic mythology, part maritime intelligence briefing. The covert atmosphere is metaphorical. The crossings, photographs and lessons are real. CODE PHRASE Opening Transmission I believe in America. Ed Reif 3.0 Translation I believed in America enough to leave it. France, Spain and England sharpened the comparison and redrew the map. Operational Meaning Distance changes the evidence. Travel is not an escape from identity. It is the field test that reveals which parts of ide...