Rock Me On The Water: The Budget Travel Olympian
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The Budget Travel Olympian
No matter how low the budget bar gets, I always manage to limbo my way under it.
Opening Statement
No matter how low the budget bar gets, I always manage to limbo my way under it. I am the Wilt Chamberlain of shoestring travel—putting up numbers so unthinkable that mere normals will never, ever reach them.
As the Morgan Freeman of travel writers, everyone recognizes me, but I never gain any due recognition. Hotel @nyware (edreif.com) has not exactly been the Edgar Allan Poe of knockouts, the Emily Dickinson of ground-and-pound, or the Robert Frost of whoopings.
The Number
300ports in 38 months
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The View from the Moving World
Milford Sound as proof that the best travel stories do not require a luxury budget—only movement, timing and nerve.
Milford Sound, New Zealand
Majesty without the markup.
Field Note 01
CNN Versus the Alphabet
Some people need essays. Some people need images, sound and movement.
So I shoot pictures and videos, then post them for the auditory and visual crowd. I call it CNN versus the alphabet.
Photo Archive
Pictures
The visual evidence from the road, the ships and the ports.
Open PicturesVideo Archive
Videos
The moving version of the same everywhere trip.
Open PlaylistField Note 02
The IN to My Sane
A Ph.D. in throwing things against the wall and seeing what survives.
It is just me, born with a Ph.D. in throwing junk against the wall and seeing what will stick. Looking back, it has been the Colonel Kurtz of experiences. I have gone native and insane so many times—but in a Lance Armstrong, Barbara Bush sort of way.
Sometimes I am the census taker. Sometimes I am the cannibal psychiatrist.
“Any man beyond the age of 26 who rides a bus should consider himself a failure.”
Margaret Thatcher
I would add: any man working on a cruise ship. It is good to know, however, that failure is always an option.
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At Sea, On Budget
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The Budget Travel Olympian
Resourcefulness is the real upgrade.