- People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive.~ The Power of Myth - Joe Campbell
There are three types of people-those alive, those dead and those @sea--cruising around the world has been one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. It is one stage of my “re-entry” in Hotel @nyware, continuing my extended break from Normal Life again to travel the world on board another cruise ship. I’m living my dream of PT-Permanent Travel, also known as "Mini Retirements". I haven’t been everywhere, but it is no longer on my list. I "get it" now., this travel thing. On 12/12/12, Blogging is literature in a hurry-Write? Right! The quicker I go, the longer it takes, so it looks like I will be writing a few more posts on the subject.
As I document this adventure, this around-the-world travelogue, I say to myself "Roam Sweet Roam". Home is not where my heart is but where my computer is- I remain a digital nomad, where Anywhere becomes @nyware, location neutral, as there is no such thing as a bad piece of real estate when you use technology and social media. As I make my way in the Caribbean (again!), in the middle of nowhere, but the center of everything, thanks to a reliable high speed Internet connection. I am doing pretty much everything I would do in the USA, only with the economies of scale, at a less greater cost.
Consequently, I call home a feeling not a place-I’ve never confused a street address for where I actually lived. My destinations have never been places , but new way of seeing things: the journeys themselves have been the destinations.
It has never been about resources, but more about resourcefulness.We're never too poor to buy our freedom.In fact, we are all “time millionaires ”and when we who choose to use this commodity, the less we put a cash value on travel, and the less we think that money is what we need to have an adventure and live, and the less we associate money with life in general. - My 12 Best Days:
- ▼ December (9)
- ▼ November (24)
- Jade Mountain-St Lucia
- St Maarten- Divi Little Bay
- Carribean Blue-Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These
- No Noose Is Good News
- Same Ship Different Day-The Right Mistake
- From Zero To Infinity-Pools That Blow Your Mind
- Curacao - Renaissance Man
- Bonaire -Shawshank Redemption
- ABC Islands-It Ain't Much If It Ain't Dutch
- Grand Turk-Escape TO (My) Reality
- Dominican Republic-1492
- Half Moon Cay Bahamas _Sea Horses
- St Thomas USVI
- Dam Ships
- La Martinique - Caribbean Flower
- Apocalypso Now
- Barbados -The Boat Yard
- St Lucia-Banana Republic Is Hiring
- India- Losing My Religion(s)
- The Statue's not the Saint (Maarten)
- Dam Ships- The Map is the Territory
- @ The Pacific Ocean-One Taste
- Marlin Alley_Worth Seaing
- Cayman(ia) Islands-Wash And Go
- ▼ October (15)
- Old Galveston-The Power of NEW
- Cozumel-Legal Tender
- The 5 Most Boring Cities On Earth
- Houston-Big Hats No Cattle
- Miner For A Heart of Gold-Sow What You Reap
- An I For An Island
- Fiji Islands-Savusavu-Cue The Sun
- Long-Term Travel
- Cozumel-Un Mundo Nuevo
- Eco(n) Tourism in The Cayman Islands
- Welcome to The Hotel Galveston
- ApoCalypso Not Now-Aye Carumba!
- 7 Cruises I Had To Go On Before I Died
- You Do What On A Cruise Ship?
- As Seen On TV-How I Got My SAG card
- ▼ September (10)
- Kings Point-USMMA-The Jones Act
- You Get Paid For The Waiting (Acting's Free)
- Shoveling Sunshine in Paradise-
- Huna-Helped By Hidden Hands
- Book Him, Danno! Is There life After Luau?
- Eat Drink And Be Maui
- It's Called The Big Island Not The Tiny Island
- You Do What On A Cruise Ship?
- New York City- Manhattan
- Fjords-The Persistence of Memory
- ▼ August (16)
- Alaska-The Great Land-Action Plan
- Salmon Fishing- Reeling In The Years
- Wings Over Misty Fjords-Flightseeing
- Tongass---No Rain, No Rainbow Falls
- B.E.S.T. Bears Eagles Salmon Totem Poles
- In The Sky-Wings Over The Inside Passage
- S E Alaska-Here Comes The Sun-
- Tongass Rain Forest-On The Waterfront
- Misty Fjords-Active Rain
- Seattle- I Have My Reservations
- Alaska,,Where Mother Nature Lives
- Glacier Bay-WWJM(John Muir) Do?
- The Chilkoot Trail-Miner For A Heart of Gold
- Inside Passage- Grass Is Greener Where You Water ...
- Ketchikan- A River Runs Through It
- Tracy Arm Fjord- Inside Passage- Vivid Blues
- ▼ July (13)
- Travels in Alaska-Quinn The Eskimo
- Juneau--The Wild Gospel of Nature
- Ketchikan-Path of Moist Resistance
- Glacier National Park-Of The Mountains
- Skagway-After The Goldrush
- Juneau-Enlightened Land
- Seattle-The Flannel Manner
- Alaska-The Great One
- Washington Square- Sand Man
- The Statue of Immigration
- Wall Street-You Have Just Been Shot
- NYC-Notes From The Underground.
- Castaway Cay, Bahamas
- ▼ April (18)
- An I For An Island Makes You Blind To The Cost Of ...
- The Geography Of Bliss-Write About Here
- Fiji Islands-Rocky Mountain High
- An I For An Island - Island- Living Well Is The Be...
- Africa-A Review From Exactly A Year Ago!
- A Boat Load of Thomas Kinkade
- St. Thomas- Time Flys When You're Having Rum
- St Croix- United States of Unconsciousness
- Crossroad Centre Antigua
- St Lucia - Banana Bread Winner
- Grenada-How The East Was Won
- Cruising with Kierkegaard: Sons of Beaches
- Barbadoes-An Embarrassment of Coconuts
- Dominica-Carpe Manana-Seize the Tomorrow
- Basseterre St Kitts-Beautiful Day
- Napoleon Complex-St Maarten
- Everybody Wants to Cruise the World
- Take It To The Limit -One More Time
- ▼ March (10)
- 7 Cruises I Had To Go On Before I Died
- Fiji Islands-Rocky Mountain High
- Goa, India-Holy Cow!
- Happy St. Pat's-Around the World in 80 Beers
- Nuku'alofa -Where Time Begins
- Alaska's Salmon
- The Geography of Bliss-cOPENhagen
- The Importance Of Being Ernest(Hemingway)
- Louisville,Kentucky-Baseball Verses Football
- Yangoon-One Hand Clapping- Smiling With One Lip
- ▼ February (19)
- An I For An Island- Living Well Is The Best Reveng...
- The Persistence Of Norway-New Zealand vs Fjord N...
- 3 Years of MT Experiences- (Magical Thinking) @ Se...
- CDG--Mind, Body And France-It's A Beautiful Day
- Isle of Pines- New Caledonia-Escape TO Reality
- Papeete-PolYNesian Disneyland and The Audacity of ...
- Caribbean Blue-Sails Report
- Got Kilt: Beam Me Up New Zealand
- Dakar, Senegal- AmeriCON's
- Bahamas Seagull Management
- Christ Church Earthquake- Revisited
- Indy-I'd Walk 500 Miles
- Grand Cayman: I am Steve Irwin and so can you
- Welcome To Hoover. I'm Your Dam Guide
- All Thai'd Up
- The Secret of Staying Young-Lying About Your Age
- Evian Spelled Backwards Is Naive
- Viva Las Vegan-The Burger And The King
- Full Circle-What Happens In Vegas Happened In Mac...
- ▼ January (9)
- Bora Bora- The Infinity Pool verses The God Molec...
- King Of The Mountains- It's Not Unusual
- ImagiNATION-Home Is Where The Art Is
- Windows 2012-ImagineNATION
- The Importance Of Being Ernest Without Having Ever...
- Las Vegas-Heads Up
- Los Angeles-To London in 110 Days-In One yEAR and...
- Apocalypse (Not) Now- Santa Monica
- Happy Last Year-Write? Right!
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