Chasing The Blue Beyond

The Cruising Godfather: Declassified Files File CG-006 · France, Spain and England The Inner Map of Outer Journeys Creative destruction, geographic luck, fear, maritime movement and the private map rewritten by every crossing. View Surveillance Image Restore Briefing Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Series Classification The Cruising Godfather: Declassified Files is a literary persona: part memoir, part cinematic mythology, part maritime intelligence briefing. The covert atmosphere is metaphorical. The crossings, photographs and lessons are real. CODE PHRASE 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 ide...

Brighton / Sea Years / Reinvention No Noose Is Good News A travel writer runs out of worlds to conquer, comes ashore on the English Channel, counts his blessings, and discovers that a bicycle can turn friction into momentum. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Trial “If you smell something burning, it is my future as a travel writer going up in smoke.” The future of voyage journaling just isn’t what it used to be. I visited enough inhospitable and exotic locations—human Petri dishes from Angkor Wat to the Philippines, India, and Dakar—but the shock-and-awe omnivore revelations eventually felt like stunts. What remained was the elevated sense of otherworldliness offered by Melville, Hemingway, Conrad, Kipling, and Bashō: tra...

Beyond the 2011 Archive Jump Ahead Continue from the 364-day record into the larger sea story: the chapter, the accidental sailor, the magical-thinking retrospective, and funemployment. The Sea Chapter The Accidental Sailor Magical Thinking Funemployment

Cunard - 175 Years of Luxury Ocean Travel CUNARD The shortest bridge between New York and Europe. Experience 175 years of luxury ocean travel aboard the world's most prestigious fleet. 175 Years of Excellence 1 Only Scheduled Transatlantic Liner 3 Magnificent Queens Our Maritime Journey Three Queens, One Magnificent City A rare gathering of the entire Cunard fleet - Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria - representing nearly two ce...