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Cabo San Lucas · Mexico · Same Hat, Different Day The Elixir Cabo-LG: Life Is Still Good Dylan, ageing backwards, guacamole revelation, and the Pacific-side reminder that growing old is mandatory but growing up remains optional. See Full Image Cabo San Lucas Mexico Watchtower Life Is Good The Elixir Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir “There must be some kind of way out of here,” I wrote last year. Apparently not. “Said the joker to the thief.” All Along the Watchtower has always carried Dylan’s audacity at manipulating chronological time. At the conclusion of the last verse, it is as if the song begins again and the power of myth returns. My own ageing is regressive these days, not progressive. I am the Bob Dylan of the fifty-somethings. Growing old is not optional. Growing up is. Field Signal Same Hat, Different Day Return travel is not repetition when the traveller has changed. The Journey Equation Memory + Return + Mischief = Li...

Cabo San Lucas · Mexico · Same Hat, Different Day The Elixir Cabo-LG: Life Is Still Good Dylan, ageing backwards, guacamole revelation, and the Pacific-side reminder that growing old is mandatory but growing up remains optional. See Full Image Cabo San Lucas Mexico Watchtower Life Is Good The Elixir Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir “There must be some kind of way out of here,” I wrote last year. Apparently not. “Said the joker to the thief.” All Along the Watchtower has always carried Dylan’s audacity at manipulating chronological time. At the conclusion of the last verse, it is as if the song begins again and the power of myth returns. My own ageing is regressive these days, not progressive. I am the Bob Dylan of the fifty-somethings. Growing old is not optional. Growing up is. Field Signal Same Hat, Different Day Return travel is not repetition when the traveller has changed. The Journey Equation Memory + Return + Mischief = Li...

Mexico · Puerto Vallarta · Return Voyage Foreign Land Beyond Puerto Vallarta The itinerary may repeat, but the journey changes when the people, weather, and perspective change. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir I was following the same itinerary as the year before, but this time I was going beyond Puerto Vallarta. Sometimes it does not matter where you go. It matters who goes with you. The route may repeat, but the company changes the meaning of every port. Field Doctrine The Place Is Only Half the Journey Geography supplies the setting. Companionship supplies the story. The Asymmetric Equation Familiar Route + New Company = New Journey Repetition doe...

Home Again in Los Angeles: A Sailor’s Journey Back Home Again in Los Angeles After a year of navigating the world's seas, I’ve landed back where it all started—Los Angeles. This city, sprawling and sunlit, now feels like a port of both departure and return, a place where the journey begins anew. The Optimist’s Compass At sea, optimism isn’t a luxury—it’s a survival skill. You learn to embrace the uncertainty of open water, transforming each destination into a story worth telling. But let’s not sugarcoat it: not every port is paradise. Some places remind you that the future doesn’t always live up to its promises. Still, as a sailor, you don’t quit on places—you connect with people. The best ships, after all, are friendships, and the oceans have introduced me to some incredible souls. ...

 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

Alaska · Inside Passage · Canada · Los Angeles · Mexico The Elixir The End Is Where We Start From The Alaska season closes, the Inside Passage becomes the bridge, and the Disney Wonder waits to carry the story south. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Closing That Opens One Season Ends “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 had ended. After a thirty-hour ferry ride through the Inside Passage, I had been in Canada for two days. In another two days, I would meet the ship and take it back toward Los Angeles and Mexico. The Return Equation Endi...

 You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream  to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do  If it doesn't kill you it will makeyou stronger. In this case the Salmon don't make it. So much for "going with the flow".  To make matters worse, y oung bears bulk up with salmon for a long winter' s sleep. Why do they do it? The urge to merge-The Pacific Northwestern salmon is hell bent on its quest to travel hundreds of miles upstream against the current, with a single purpose, sex of course, but also... life. Any fish  can achieve failure and get caught. But  a salmon fiasco is a disaster of epic propotions. I witness this "programming" and it makes me  feel more alive because it didn't happen to me.

 You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream  to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do  If it doesn't kill you it will makeyou stronger. In this case the Salmon don't make it. So much for "going with the flow".  To make matters worse, y oung bears bulk up with salmon for a long winter' s sleep. Why do they do it? The urge to merge-The Pacific Northwestern salmon is hell bent on its quest to travel hundreds of miles upstream against the current, with a single purpose, sex of course, but also... life. Any fish  can achieve failure and get caught. But  a salmon fiasco is a disaster of epic propotions. I witness this "programming" and it makes me  feel more alive because it didn't happen to me.

  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.

“Qui me amat, amat et canem" St. Bernard Love me.Love my do g 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 dog ma new tricks.  The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the b...

“Qui me amat, amat et canem" St. Bernard Love me.Love my do g 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 dog ma new tricks.  The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over roc...

 Those 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!

 Those 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!