Hotel @nyware

Going through the same itinerary as last year, but now I am going beyond Puerto Vallarta. Sometimes it doesn't matter where you go but who you go with.

Mexico is an ancient thing, that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color, and slices of life,even beneath my flip flops, I feel the earth move under my feet, just as today with all the vendors and the wanting.

Now that I am done with all that Alaskan weather, I can see clearly now the rain has gone.One Nation, Under Canada, Above Mexico, I am still an AmeriCAN not an AmeriCAN·T

Going through the same itinerary as last year, but now I am going beyond Puerto Vallarta. Sometimes it doesn't matter where you go but who you go with.

Mexico is an ancient thing, that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color, and slices of life,even beneath my flip flops, I feel the earth move under my feet, just as today with all the vendors and the wanting.

Now that I am done with all that Alaskan weather, I can see clearly now the rain has gone.One Nation, Under Canada, Above Mexico, I am still an AmeriCAN not an AmeriCAN·T



Natural Resources



The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. Just a touch and go operation today and it's deja vu-  access to thousands of acres of green spruce and fjord like glacial melt.

I am not stopping to ask for directions



Natural Resources



The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. Just a touch and go operation today and it's deja vu-  access to thousands of acres of green spruce and fjord like glacial melt.

I am not stopping to ask for directions

This is the Disney Wonder in Alaska 2 weeks ago.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” ~T.S. Eliot  The Alaska season has ended and after a 30 hour ferry ride through the inside passage,   I have been in Canada for 2 days. I am meeting up with the ship to take it back to Los Angeles and Mexico in 2 days.

Ed and Sarah

This is the Disney Wonder in Alaska 2 weeks ago.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” ~T.S. Eliot  The Alaska season has ended and after a 30 hour ferry ride through the inside passage,   I have been in Canada for 2 days. I am meeting up with the ship to take it back to Los Angeles and Mexico in 2 days.

Ed and Sarah

A boat is not a ship and a ship is not a boat. Now I get it.The odds are good that you'll find a cheap boat but the goods are odd-here is my 70 year old wood ex coast guard rec one. A wooden boat, however, is the closest thing to dreams that hands have ever made, and the real ship is the shipbuilder-the creators.


People ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say 'How to Build a Boat"

Top 3 Take aways:

1. We don't tan, we rust.


2. If you have to smoke, smoke salmon.

3. We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now here in the rain forest.



I am not ready for R I P, Rusting In Peace...I´am outta here soon.

A boat is not a ship and a ship is not a boat. Now I get it.The odds are good that you'll find a cheap boat but the goods are odd-here is my 70 year old wood ex coast guard rec one. A wooden boat, however, is the closest thing to dreams that hands have ever made, and the real ship is the shipbuilder-the creators.


People ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say 'How to Build a Boat"

Top 3 Take aways:

1. We don't tan, we rust.


2. If you have to smoke, smoke salmon.

3. We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now here in the rain forest.



I am not ready for R I P, Rusting In Peace...I´am outta here soon.

Finally , after three days of rain, some sunshine on the waterfront.The cliche of moving up here is not necessary. After epic rainfall and flooding, I think of this beautiful quote-Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through them.

All good things -salmon fishing as well as eternal salvation -come by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy.

This 2011 World Tour of mine has been a grace period of kindness and favor bestowed upon me, by family,old and new friends along the way,and strangers who weren't so strange after all, who assisted me--- to live the dream of world traveler. Yet, I still feel all the time I am being helped by hidden hands.

I am one lucky dog.Joe Campbell was right:the waters of eternal life are right there,when you are following your bliss. You can teach an old dogma new tricks.

Finally , after three days of rain, some sunshine on the waterfront.The cliche of moving up here is not necessary. After epic rainfall and flooding, I think of this beautiful quote-Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through them.

All good things -salmon fishing as well as eternal salvation -come by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy.

This 2011 World Tour of mine has been a grace period of kindness and favor bestowed upon me, by family,old and new friends along the way,and strangers who weren't so strange after all, who assisted me--- to live the dream of world traveler. Yet, I still feel all the time I am being helped by hidden hands.

I am one lucky dog.Joe Campbell was right:the waters of eternal life are right there,when you are following your bliss. You can teach an old dogma new tricks.

Don't you know me, I'm your native son.I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans.I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done.
Each day there are 6 to 8 thousand passengers that not only visit but also inhabit this small town. That is more than the actual population.These one day instant tourists will be gone a hundred miles when the day is done...with the rain it's Rinse and Repeat.
The Zuiderdam, Oosterdam, Westerdam, and Noordam respectively named for the south, east, west, and north points of the compass, Holland America names its passenger ships with the "dam" suffix.  Here I am standing infront of one their dam ships!

Don't you know me, I'm your native son.I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans.I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done.
Each day there are 6 to 8 thousand passengers that not only visit but also inhabit this small town. That is more than the actual population.These one day instant tourists will be gone a hundred miles when the day is done...with the rain it's Rinse and Repeat

The Zuiderdam, Oosterdam, Westerdam, and Noordam respectively named for the south, east, west, and north points of the compass, Holland America names its passenger ships with the "dam" suffix.  Here I am standing infront of one their dam ships!