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Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mamma. Another week at sea onboard the Disney Magic. It all starts on embarkation day here in Texas.

Like suburban California without Los Angry Cars. Self Employment sometimes made harder by difficult boss- "I am not a businessman, I am a business, man!" That's what the locals are doing here $elling everything- It's a pain in the English. Cozumel  locals speak English as a second language. Money is their first one.

  Singapore- The Happy Dicatorship where the Thought Police give tickets for wearing headphones or chewing gum in public.It's just a clean, convenient place to stop over before moving on. See: A Pain In The English Brussels, Belgium -A beer and chocolate city of red tape and Eurocrats. Houston,Texas -No crude oil types here-only bean counters and engineers. Everything you want in a city and less. Oslo, Norway - Plain Vanilla-Safe cars and suicidal winters. A Big parking lot with the most beautiful looking zombies on the planet. where even chickens get to cross the road without having their motives questioned. See: Oslo You Know Where it's @ Riyadh, Saudia Arabia - Sexual Apartheid-Any country that bans the mermaid logo from Starbucks has issues-Cancel my subscription. Its silence is the most perfect expression of its own scorn. See: One Eyed Man in the Kingdom of the Blind

 And it goes like this...   Finding Alaska is easy. My eyes mint gold. Nothing shines so brightly.  The scenery  paints itself. I'm just the middleman.  You can't create experiences like this, you undergo them. You can mine for gold or you can sell pickaxes Being born in the US is like being kidnapped and sold into  entrepreneurship   on Planet Pick Axe. My universe is made of stories, not atoms: land, air and sea travel and the power of now. If I wanted to be a multinational soul, and  monetize  my best asset,me, I couldn't do it in cities where I taught English like New York or Los Angeles, Paris or Tokyo alone-I needed to get consecrated by sailing on the oceans.It's a wonderful thing to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know anyone; where, as Melville said,"God's one and only voice is Silence." All Ashore-Traquility Base, The Ego Has Landed Skagway Today Living on a ship, might be summed up as monotony...

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes I thought of my job as Art Director  as leading people to those moments of awe – that ephiphany  that overtakes you when you encounter a new idea, or place.  There is no doubt about it, the exhilarating state of mind that travel can evoke, when everything seems suddenly fresh, vivid, intensely interesting, and memorable. It's rare when  the mode of transportation - The Oasis of the Seas - to get you to these places usurps the destination. This was April 2012 and it did.

Natural, Lush and Beautiful,Where the hell's Fiji? Near Texas?   You can't get any further away before you start coming back. Imagine sailing across the blue waters of the South Pacific, passing by idylic islands, teeming with exotic fish and majestic coral reefs.Oh wait I don't have to use my imagination because my actual perceptions of these events is the event. Bula.  Cloudy today with a chance of paradise 

The Committee to Ascribe a Naval Origin to Everything Is Now In Session. Give me a wide berth, I’m a loose cannon and three sheets to the wind. Anchors aweigh There are three sorts of people; those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea. As long as I am on a ship, the future is full of possibilities that I must constantly shoot in the head, because if you want something GR8, you must be able to limit yourself. "I haven't been everywhere, but it is on my list". Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life. I am so glad I  have been able to do long-term travel, and doing it on cruise ships.   "I'm not really choosing between experiences,I am choosing  between memories of experiences. Even when I think about  future vacations, I don’t think of my future ports of call normally as experiences. I think of  my future vacations as anticipated memories." Normal people need three things to travel-Time, Money and Opportunity. As an abnorm...

 It is renowned for having the 2nd largest reef in the world and some of the most spectacular diving & snorkeling in Mexico but I am on land chasing the Carnival Miracle out of New York, first, taking a ferry to Playa Del Carmen, then a shuttle to Cancun Airport. The Documentary of Cozumel that Cousteau Never made In 1955, Jacques-Yves Cousteau made a 1 hour 23 ... a TV special that  launched Cozumel's diving industry. Yet,  none of the footage was shot in Mexico,according to the   Costeau society. They  say that     Le Monde du Silence is confused with another guy from Sea Hunt and Flipper fame, Rene Cordova  who shot Un Mundo Nuevo. The story got repeated so many times, however,  it has become fact, even by me! Now I know why  Jacques Cousteau, legendary ocean explorer, called it the "best diving area in the world."....  I blogged and youtube'd   about it, and it's even been set to music  in John De...

Dating Outside My Species Gimme Shelter Welcome To The AmeriCON Tax Code- "My Other Home's A Yacht" Deduction  Last time I was here, I kissed a stingray . Today,  I’m kissing the ring of  the Popes of Loopholes, Grand Cayman  Banksters, and their patron saints of  evasion, the Plutocrats. Magic Money Pulled From the Hat! Money  after all, is a prop, and  investment bankers magicians-  Like all wizards, they don't like to show their tricks- Their  greatest one  is the disappearance and reappearance of money. Hocus Pocus Delaware, is  the Cayman Islands of America, but that's like saying Stanford is the Harvard of the West Coast. I had to go to the source and  see it for myself. Cash is anonymous, but like all good magicians, magic is invisible and it's hard to inventory what you can't see. Just ask John Lloyd . So I go from Eco Tourism in Alaska to Eco-nomics  Tourist  here today. Derivatives, Short Sa...

Dating Outside My Species Gimme Shelter Welcome To The AmeriCON Tax Code- "My Other Home's A Yacht" Deduction  Last time I was here, I kissed a stingray . Today,  I’m kissing the ring of  the Popes of Loopholes, Grand Cayman  Banksters, and their patron saints of  evasion, the Plutocrats. Magic Money Pulled From the Hat! Money  after all, is a prop, and  investment bankers magicians-  Like all wizards, they don't like to show their tricks- Their  greatest one  is the disappearance and reappearance of money. Hocus Pocus Delaware, is  the Cayman Islands of America, but that's like saying Stanford is the Harvard of the West Coast. I had to go to the source and  see it for myself. Cash is anonymous, but like all good magicians, magic is invisible and it's hard to inventory what you can't see. Just ask John Lloyd . So I go from Eco Tourism in Alaska to Eco-nomics  Tourist  here tod...

So I called up the Captain, ’please bring me my wine’... My life According To The Eagles Lyrics From Hotel @nyware to Hotel California. It's been voted " One of The Greatest Songs of All Time",  synonymous with 1977, my  high school soundtrack and  visual vocabulary, I immediately  can access the album cover to the Eagles tour de force, while here in TX. My blog is literature in a hurry--It  spins  stories of me sailing  the globe, as I get trapped in the golden hand cuffs of living and working on luxury cruise ships (Hotel @nyware). For the most part, it appears inviting and tempting. I hint on the hedonism , self-destruction , and greed in it all. Welcome to the hotel California Such a lovely place Such a lovely face    Plenty of room at the hotel California. Any time of year, you can find it here. This morning Downtown has the look and feel of of a  Matthew McConaughy  movie set  Architecture is a Verb-The Classi...

So I called up the Captain, ’please bring me my wine’... My life According To The Eagles Lyrics From Hotel @nyware to Hotel California. It's been voted " One of The Greatest Songs of All Time",  synonymous with 1977, my  high school soundtrack and  visual vocabulary, I immediately  can access the album cover to the Eagles tour de force, while here in TX. My blog is literature in a hurry--It  spins  stories of me sailing  the globe, as I get trapped in the golden hand cuffs of living and working on luxury cruise ships (Hotel @nyware). For the most part, it appears inviting and tempting. I hint on the hedonism , self-destruction , and greed in it all. Welcome to the hotel California Such a lovely place Such a lovely face    Plenty of room at the hotel California. Any time of year, you can find it here. This morning Downtown has the look and feel of of a  Matthew McConaughy  movie set  Architectur...

I 've been to Mexico so many times  and taken   life with a grain of salt and a slice of lemon and a  shot of tequila.  You know when Tequila is talking. where you drink triple, see double and act single.  It has a very distinctive voice. Sublime is no longer something I choke on after one. I'  I've gone native in a Col Kurtz sort of way, drinking tequila, and sporting a Hecho in Mexico Straw Cowboy hat--but not this trip.  No more killing precious brain cells. The Mayan calender-end of the world- has to wait. It's already tomorrow in Australia. A Corona in one hand and Tequila glasses,  shots to the head because  some memories they need assassins. Liquid Bread-Beer You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. The Cliff notes on Corona, the gold standard for Latin American lagers. Position in the...