Deja Blue
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From the ocean to the concrete jungle — every port tells a story.
Deja Blue
A Life Charted by Love and Wanderlust
When home is wherever the horizon meets the heart.
There’s a French phrase, “déjà vu,” meaning “already seen.” But what do you call it when you’ve seen the world six times over, yet every sunrise still feels like the first? Sarah and Ed have coined their own term: Deja Blue — that familiar yet never-old feeling of waking up surrounded by endless ocean.
For over a decade, this remarkable couple has redefined what it means to live fully, trading traditional anchors for ocean tides and conventional wisdom for the kind of freedom that only comes when you’re brave enough to chart your own course. Their story isn’t just about travel — it’s about transformation, love that deepens with distance, and the art of making everywhere feel like somewhere special.
Featured Voyages: Stories from the Deep Blue
This post is a poetic blend of travel memoir, philosophy, and personal transformation, celebrating how love and travel interconnect to shape identity, rhythm, and perception of time. It’s a vivid invitation to view life as a journey across tides and timelines.
Read the Full Journey
When the Pacific calls, you answer.
After island-hopping from Maui to Oahu, Ed turns a car into a mobile home and lands an unexpected role at Hawaii Film Studios. It’s a tale of risk, reinvention, and chasing dreams under Pacific skies. Sometimes the best destinations aren’t on any map — they’re found in the courage to say yes to the unknown.
Unhoused but not unrooted.
A decade into life at sea, Ed reflects on the unconventional choice to be a full-time cruise ship traveler. This post lifts the curtain on what it means to call the ocean your home. It’s a masterclass in redefining success: when your office has a view of the world and your commute involves watching dolphins dance alongside your wake.
From Hong Kong to Southampton: epic transpacific and transatlantic journey.
Join Ed aboard the legendary Queen Mary 2 as he recounts moments from a world cruise that spanned continents and rewrote his personal map — one port and one memory at a time. Some journeys change your itinerary; others change your soul. This is definitely the latter.
Luxury as pilgrimage.
Flashback to a year of globe-spanning travel aboard the Crystal Cruises line. Each stop brought a new story, each journey a lesson in wonder. This is what happens when you treat travel not as escape from life, but as life itself — lived with intention, seasoned with gratitude, and served with a side of endless possibility.
When the compass swings from structure to storytelling.
Ed charts his transformation from Merchant Marine cadet to Cruise Director. This is a voyage of purpose, where duty evolves into passion and rigid schedules give way to fluid adventures. It’s proof that sometimes the best career moves happen when you stop climbing ladders and start following currents.
Time wealth over material wealth.
Ed and Sarah reframe joblessness as joy. “Funemployment” becomes a philosophy of time wealth, lived out on luxury liners and soaked in lessons from around the world. When your bank account measures memories instead of money, every day is payday.
Where Wi-Fi connects and creativity flows.
For digital nomads like Ed, the laptop is the new address. Explore the idea of “home” redefined as wherever the Wi-Fi connects and creativity flows — from sea to screen. In their world, the phrase “working remotely” takes on oceanic proportions.
The Motion Principle
What emerges from these stories isn’t just a collection of travel tales, but a blueprint for intentional living. Sarah and Ed haven’t just chosen an unconventional lifestyle — they’ve created a masterpiece of mindful wandering where every sunset is both an ending and a beginning.
“What kind of vacation would you choose if you knew you wouldn’t remember it?” This question cuts to the heart of their philosophy. For Sarah and Ed, the answer is clear: they’d choose the same life they’re living now — one where every moment is worth forgetting because it’s immediately replaced by another moment equally worth living.
Charting Your Own Course
Home is a feeling, not a place
True belonging comes from within and from the people we choose to journey alongside.
Time wealth trumps material wealth
The richest life is one filled with experiences that expand your soul.
Love deepens with distance
Sharing adventures creates bonds stronger than any anchor.
Every ending is a new beginning
Each port of call, each sunset, each goodbye makes space for new hellos.
Setting Sail
In a world that often feels increasingly connected yet somehow more divided, Sarah and Ed’s story reminds us that the best antidote to uncertainty isn’t more security — it’s more adventure. Their “Deja Blue” isn’t just about seeing the same ocean views repeatedly; it’s about choosing wonder as a daily practice and love as a navigational tool.
After all, as they’ve discovered across six laps around the world, the most extraordinary journeys aren’t about reaching a destination — they’re about becoming the kind of people worthy of the adventure.
Bon voyage, fellow dreamers. The horizon is calling.
