Chasing The Blue Beyond

Covid-19 And The Stiff Upper Lip - Travel Blog Covid-19 And The Stiff Upper Lip A Journey Through Pandemic Times and UK Memories Back in The U.K. after a visit to Ireland. Not talking about The Pandemic is like denying gravity exists. That ostrich approach of sticking our collective head in the sand will not delay or deny the medical catastrophe, the logistics nightmare and the financial Armageddon that each of us experience in our own idiosyncratic ways. Call it malignant optimism, but the shared hallucination that it is "just the flu" is junk science. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger but make no mistake about it: This virus can kill. It doesn't have a brain, but we do. Careers are on hold, people are in limbo, and there are only two ways this epidemic will end: Med...

The Great American Road Trip of 2020 🛣️ The Great American Road Trip of 2020 When cruise ships stopped, the highways called 🏔️ From seven seas to the Grand Tetons - 2020's greatest pivot March 2020 🚢 Don't Give Up The Ship It was the best of vibes. It was the worst of vibes. We waited for 2020 to have that perfect vision. Nobody could predict what they'd be seeing and doing this year - washing their hands, wearing a mask and social distancing because of the global pandemic. Normally, we would be sailing in the Norwegian Fjords, The Baltics or through Alaska's wildlife super highway, Glacier Bay. Tis the season...

Jamaica Caribbean Experience - Falmouth & Beyond 🇯🇲 Jamaica Experience Falmouth & Beyond - Caribbean Soul 🌴 One Love, One Heart 🚢 Colonial Falmouth The new(er) port of Falmouth looks so colonial and British Empire authentic. Sailed here several times this decade, with Royal Caribbean, MSC and like today, Disney. Each visit reveals new layers of this historic Caribbean gem, where colonial architecture meets modern cruise infrastructure in perfect harmony. 🍺 Just Do It...Later Swish... with Red Stripe Beer ...

Documenting these travels with pictures has the added advantage of it being true, and therefore you have to tolerate contradictions and see things from different perspectives. "You worked on a cruise ship and you worked  in a war zone,huh?" Yep, from cruise ship to cruise missiles. Same thing , "At your service. Yes Maam, Yes Sir". Both are- The Hospitality Industry. Both are 24- hour work environments. It is very important that  expedition history not be distilled to just those great man and woman like Magellan,  Edmund Hillary, Lewis  and Clark et al., but to the regular folk  who  go out to do their own exploring and circumnavigation of the Earth and then blog about it-literature in a hurry. No matter where I go there I am. I can still look up at the same moon, stars albeit different hemisphere. It innately belongs to all of us, children of this planet.  I'm stricken by, what poet Diane Ackerman calls " the ricochet wonder...