Britania Cruise To France and Spain
File CG-006 · France, Spain and EnglandThe Inner Map of Outer Journeys
Creative destruction, geographic luck, fear, maritime movement and the private map rewritten by every crossing.
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 identity can survive contact with the wider world.
Original Narrative
Fear Is for Folks Who Don't Get Out Much
May 2019-Mont St Michael
Sailing past Britannia on The Solent in SOTON
Fear is for folks who don’t get out much
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Travel, at its best is creative destruction. In the wisdom of the moment,the power of a new language, food and culture and people are not problems to be solved but mysteries to be lived.
The whole exercise has to be one of reconciliation.Lowering, removing or shattering the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate we human beings, one from another. It's not so much about being understood as understanding. A lot of times, it's not you it's U.S. winning the geographic lottery being horn in the USA. Why go anywhere else, eh?
The Hunt For Happy- is the longing for repetition.
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling our stories from the same facts. Pleasure is not happiness but the joy I have extracted from trips depends more on the mindset I travel with than on the destination I travel to. I don 't want to tell anyone where they ought to travel, but only how and why.
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French Coasties in Action
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Read Companion StoryThe countries changed. The route changed. The internal map refused to remain where it began.