Chasing The Blue Beyond

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...

Hotel @nyware · The Sea Years · Twenty-Year Retrospective Deja Blue — 20 Years of MT Magical Thinking, moving horizons, impossible plans—and the ships and places that made the imagined life real. Chasing The Blue Beyond (Website) See Video Magical Thinking Top Destinations The Ships Field Notes Route Archive Field Note 01 · The Operating Belief Magical thinking is imagination with a boarding pass. Déjà Blue is the feeling of returning to an ocean that has already rearranged your life—and discovering that the horizon still has work for you. Deja Blue We haven’t been everywhere but it is on our list See Full Image Magical thinking gets a bad name because people confuse it with wishing. Wishing waits. My version gets underway. For twenty years, the blue kept repeating itself: a new ship, another contract, a fresh port, the same charged question—what happens when imagination is treated as navigation? The answer was never one perfect voyage....