Chasing The Blue Beyond

Kentuckey Fried Movie When it comes to venturing out of your CZ , Comfort Zone cuisine, Did you ever notice everything tastes like chicken? That common declaration used when trying to describe the flavor of a food I've never tasted will now be applied to visiting new places. Despite the language differences and the geographical distances, everywhere I am visiting lately looks like Hawaii, or MDR, Marina Del Rey, Or Venice,California. Strange...I am going back to places I have never been before..WTF?

Spain / Mahón, Menorca / Seven Field Notes The Teaches of Beaches A Mediterranean learning journey about creativity, consciousness, courage and the difference between possessing a place and truly tuning into it. See Full Image Show Text Mediterranean Thesis “You can’t own the beach, but you can tune in to the beach.” From the shores of Mahón, Menorca, where the Mediterranean rewards attention, seven lessons emerge about originality, awareness and living beyond the default setting. Before We Begin What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Hold that thought as the journey moves from mistake to imagination, from habit to attention, and from possession to presence. The Learning Journey Seven teachings from the edge of land and sea 01 Field Note 01 The Art...

Image handling fix: direct live Blogger image URLs only; no archive links. Tunis, Tunisia · Afro-Mediterranean Field Note Foreign Land Tunisia Northern Exposure A day without plans becomes a field lesson in rain, ritual, bargaining, boundary-setting, and the strange economics of an eight-euro Coke. See Full Image Continue South Tunis Medina Souq 2009 Cultural Crossroads Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir A bit of “We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto” came over me as I touched foot on the northernmost part of African soil: Tunis, Tunisia. The itinerary was simple because there was no itinerary. Heavy rain and flash floods were on tap—good for the semi-arid landscape and bad for my big plans to convert to Islam. ...

Malta · Maritime Field Note · 2009–2011 Foreign Land Ed Reif’s Journey Through Malta From foreign-flagged ships to Valletta’s streets: a meditation on maritime scale, urban contradiction, and a life worth watching. See Full Image Malta Blue Ocean Cruising Valletta Ship Registry Foreign Land Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir I used to think travelling and working on ships was bad. Then I stopped thinking. In 2009, I reached a threshold. I compiled a video of all the blue-ocean cruising I had done—as if my life ...

The Cruising Godfather: Declassified Files File 001 · Sicily The Cruising Godfather A literary cover identity built from ships, ports, family memory, hidden chapters and a life so widely lived that the truth began to sound fictional. View Surveillance Image Restore Briefing Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Persona Classification This covert atmosphere is literary, not literal: a man moving through ports, ships, countries and identities while revealing only what people needed to know. ORIGIN FILE Confidential Notes from Ed Reif 3.0 The Cover Story Begins For years, people treated my life at sea as though it were an elaborate cover story. Sailing around the world once sounded adventurous. Sailing around it repeatedly sounded suspicious. Most Americans did not own passports, and I was collecting immigration stamps, crew credentials, port clearances, currencies, strange stories, and photographs from places they could no...