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Excelsior- "Ever Higher." Truddie Reif in New York

New York is a feeling and a place but when you say "I love New York" it's not a feeling, it's a verb-you have to do it!

Excelsior- "Ever Higher." Truddie Reif in New York

New York is a feeling and a place but when you say "I love New York" it's not a feeling, it's a verb-you have to do it!

Baja--Fortunate Sun

Black Elk Speaks

Baja--Fortunate Sun

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Blcak Elk Speaks - The Rain Dance works because the Indians never stop dancing.

Rome Sweet Rome and Monte Carlo

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Rome · Vatican City · Monte Carlo Rome Sweet Rome and Monte Carlo Ancient stone, sacred altitude, Mediterranean glamour and the curriculum that only movement can teach. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir “Ancient Rome is old—I hope I look this good when I am over 1,000 years old. Traveling is an activity, not an accomplishment. Yet the horizon keeps becoming a classroom.” 01 Ordinary World The Seasoned Student The Seasoned Student Standing on the deck of yet another cruise ship, I gazed out at the Mediterranean horizon and realized something profound: I had become a student of the world without ever enrolling in a single class. The gentle sway of the vessel beneath my feet felt familiar now—after sailing on almost every cruise line to nearly every corner of the plane...

Rome Sweet Rome and Monte Carlo

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Rome · Vatican City · Monte Carlo Rome Sweet Rome and Monte Carlo Ancient stone, sacred altitude, Mediterranean glamour and the curriculum that only movement can teach. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir “Ancient Rome is old—I hope I look this good when I am over 1,000 years old. Traveling is an activity, not an accomplishment. Yet the horizon keeps becoming a classroom.” 01 Ordinary World The Seasoned Student The Seasoned Student Standing on the deck of yet another cruise ship, I gazed out at the Mediterranean horizon and realized something profound: I had become a student of the world without ever enrolling in a single class. The gentle sway of the vessel beneath my feet felt familiar now—after sailing on almost every cruise line to nearly every corner of the plane...

Hotel California-Aye, Calypso, the place you've been to...

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Sunshine On My Shoulders, Makes Me Happy - John Denver I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane. Rocky Mountain High, Thank God I'm a Country Boy!

Hotel California-Aye, Calypso, the place you've been to...

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Sunshine On My Shoulders, Makes Me Happy - John Denver I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane. Rocky Mountain High, Thank God I'm a Country Boy!

Mexico Baja California Sur

Cabo San Lucas · Language · Money · Connectivity Foreign Land So a Blogger Walks Into a Bar Cabo, English, money, laptops, cell phones, and the moment a foreign port begins to feel like another Los Angeles neighborhood. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir So a blogger walks into a bar and asks, “¿Hay alguien que hable inglés?” Cabo San Lucas locals speak English as a second language. Money is the first. No Spanglish. No pain in the English. Cabo is very American. Field Signal The First Language Is Transaction Commerce creates its own fluency long before grammar catches up. The Asymmetric Equation Language + Money + Connectivity = Access The foreign land...

Mexico-Cinderella Liberty

Shipboard Stories · Romantic Drama · Extended Liberty The Call The Right Mistakes Pretty Woman meets Cinderella Liberty : a lonely sailor, a woman in trouble, her son, and the temporary family created by a lost passport. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Crew Life Making the Right Mistakes It is fun to watch my fellow crewmates making the right mistakes. The story sits somewhere between Pretty Woman and Cinderella Liberty : romance, damaged lives, temporary leave, and the possibility that the wrong circumstances might produce the right connection. Fade In She Is Thirty-Two She is thirty-two. She drinks too much. She hustles pool. She has a ten-year-old mixed-race son. Sh...

Mexico-Is It Safe? Marathon Man

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Generation RX · Apple · Android · Identity Trials Is It Safe? A Marathon Man interrogation becomes the perfect operating system for technology, politics, brand loyalty, and foreign-port connectivity. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Before discussing Apple, Android, politics, or identity, the question had to be drilled into the room. Not whether it was fashionable. Not whether it was progressive. Not whether it belonged to the Daddy Party or the Mommy Party. Was it safe? Field Doctrine Define “It” Before Judging It Safety, identity, and technology become meaningless unless the object of the question is made explicit. The Asymmetric Equation Ambiguity + Repeti...

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