Chasing The Blue Beyond

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Portugal / Lisbon / Porto / World Cruise / Nostalgia Portugal Adventure From Lisbon's Royal Gazelles to Porto's Medieval Streets See Full Image Show Text Featured Video Portugal Adventure Video Video Open Video on YouTube Featured Images Portugal and World Cruise Markers Portugal Image Portugal Adventure World Cruise Map World Cruise 2011 Comparison Historical vs Modern Exploration Comparison 01 Vasco da Gama's Historical Route Aimed to establish trade routes between Europe and India. Key locations included Lisbon, Durban, Cape Town, Cochin, and Marmagao. His focus was on Africa and India for economic purposes, pioneering maritime exploration in the 15th-16th centuries. Comparison 02 Modern Travel (Ed Reif & Sarah Kennedy) Leisure and cultural exploration across continents. Key locations span the South Pacific including Bora Bora and Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Indian Ocean Islands, Southeast Asia, and the Americas. Emphasis on global diversity and personal ...

I used to think traveling/working on ships was bad...but then I stopped thinking. I reached the threshold in 2009--where I compiled a video of  the blue ocean cruising I had done-as if my life flashed before my eyes- I am looking BACK  at some of my adventures, which were nothing more than bad planning! And looking FORWARD to the unexpected which is nothing lesss than letting  go of the past and creating  a more AMAZING future. Karaoke Living Daring to Be Different in a Copycat World so I joined a ship When my life flashes before me, (2009-2011) I wanna make sure it is worth watching--- It might  look like the fast motion video BELOW: Santorini Onboard The Celebrity Soltace Having no education can be an economic death  sentence but a unique talent, grants you a global passport. Free to KNOW, GO and DO. Talent makes capital dance. I Sell my cleverness and buy bewilderment. The one is mere opinion, the other is intuition. I've f...

Ed Reif's Travel Chronicles Travel as a Catalyst for Personal Freedom Travel evokes a state of wonder, where every experience feels vivid and memorable. Ed reflects on how stepping outside of routine unlocks self-discovery and renewal. Financing Dreams Creatively Who says travel has to be expensive? Ed turned working on cruise ships into a passport to global adventures—proof that passion beats budget. Manifesting a Life Through Positive Thinking “Magical Thinking” isn't fantasy—it's Ed’s belief that what we envision, we can attract. Travel becomes a mirror for the life you dare to imagine. Photography as a Spiritual Compass Through the lens, Ed captures not just places but moments of meaning. His photos don’t just tell stories—they reveal inner transformations. The Sea: Hope Without Limits “The sea is life’s preview,” Ed ...

See Video Foreign Land · Britain, Spain, Africa and the Sea Rock & Roam Ed, Sarah and Skyelark build a life between borders—where Gibraltar becomes gateway, operating base, publishing room and home. Rock and Roam Explore the Field Notes Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Rock as Threshold A Life Built Between Borders Gibraltar became more than a destination. It became an operating base for Sarah, Ed and Skyelark: British systems, Spanish weather, clinical service, portable work, books, border crossings and the Mediterranean held inside one small Rock. Anchor + Threshold + Motion = A Portable Home The Rock was never just a place. It was the hinge between worlds. Fourteen Field Notes The Rock, the Road and ...

Share Fair Isle · Go to the Fear Wild Swimming: Arctic & Shetland Adventure The flight was cancelled. The weather had the final word. What looked like a lost day became a different kind of crossing — into cold water, breath, fear, and the clarity that arrives when there is nowhere else for attention to go. Field Note Outdoors Is In Outdoors is in, the in to my sane. Fear does not come to me. I go to it — the icy waters of the North Atlantic. This is not really a story about swimming. It is about the instant the body says no before the mind has decided anything. Cold water makes that hesitation impossible to intellectualize. You breathe, assess, enter — or you do not. Fair Isle had already begun teaching us that plans were provisional. The rock pool made the lesson physical. When the Plan Disappears Weather Hold, Ice Water, Clarity Flights were on weather hold. The wind was picking up. The ori...