Chasing The Blue Beyond

Alaska Field Notes · The Elixir Have a nICE Day Alaska, Norway, and the recurring realization that Mother Nature and Father Time are far stranger than the maps suggest. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” Same Ship, Different Day Alaska Meets Norway The geography changes. The epiphany keeps returning. Same Ship, Different Day I had a similar epiphany in the Norwegian Geirangerfjord: Mother Nature and Father Time Are Effing Special . Before Norway, Earth Goddess was just a...

Alaska · The Big Alone · The Blue Frontier Finding Alaska Is Easy. My Eyes Mint Gold. The scenery paints itself. I am only the middleman. You cannot manufacture experiences like this—you undergo them. See Full Image Show Text The Call All Ashore Ship/Shift Fire in the Belly The Power of New The Blue Frontier The Elixir Alaska was not scenery added to a life. It was scale added to consciousness. The glaciers, silence, and long northern light made the self appropriately small—and therefore finally visible. Ordinary World / The Call You Can Mine for Gold—or Sell Pickaxes 01 The Scenery Paints Itself My universe is made of stories, not atoms: land, air, sea, and the power of now. To become a multinational soul, I needed more than cities. I needed to be consecrated by oceans and silence. 02 Planet Pickaxe Being born in America can feel like being kidnapped and sold into entrepreneurship. Alaska exposed the bargain: acquire more, move faster, explain yourself constantly—or step outside ...

Inside Passage · Grass Is Greener Where You Water It Inside Passage · Alaska Grass Is Greener Where You Water It One man's wilderness is another man's theme park. Somewhere between North Face fleece, glacier mist, and the heated pool on the Golden Princess, Alaska asks whether we are really seeing the landscape—or merely consuming it. See Image Enter the Passage Show Text Inside Passage Featured Video Nothing Fails Like Excess Photographic Memory Glacier Bay Elixir One man's wilderness is another man's theme park. Golden Princess Inside Passage North Face Weather Glacier Bay Rain and Solitude Featured Video Inside the Passage A moving view of the landscape behind the story—water, weather, scale, and the wilderness beyond the ship. Chapter 01 On a Cruise Ship, Nothing Fails Like Excess You do not buy clothes. You wear them—North Face, Columbia, Patagonia—in roughly that...

Ketchikan Field Notes · The Urge to Merge Alaska Salmon Hundreds of miles upstream, against the current, with a single purpose: sex, certainly—but also life. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Why do they do it? The urge to merge. The Call Against the Current The Pacific Northwest Salmon Hell-bent on travelling hundreds of miles upstream against the current. A River Runs Through It Eventually, all things merge into one. Any fish can achieve failure ...

Alaska Field Notes · Foreign Land Where Wilderness Is Therapy The landscape reduces the ego to its proper size—and somehow returns the spirit cleaner. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Alaska makes me want to wrap myself in tinfoil and walk on the moon. The Call Marjorie Glacier: Living Geology Glacier Bay National Park Marjorie Glacier is one of the most photogenic glaciers in Glacier Bay. I had the good fortune to be there. None of these landscapes are ugly because they are natural and wild. I learn geography by travelling on ships and geology the day after a huge eve...

Alaska Inside Passage - Being There 🏔️ Alaska - Being There Inside Passage Adventures - The Great Land 🗺️ Alaska Inside Passage Route From Seattle through the pristine wilderness Southeast Alaska Click markers to explore ports of call • Interactive Inside Passage Map Being There "By the time I recognize this moment, This moment will be gone" Wow What a Summer - Alaska is a lot like pizza. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good; and like the Pizza Guy, Alaska always delivers. "But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on. Well all I got's Ooh ooh ooh ooh" ...