Posts

Showing posts from January, 2013

Cozumel-The Aquatic Life-NSA

Cozumel Coffee Chronicles - Island Paradise Meets Caffeine Culture ☕ Cozumel Coffee Chronicles Where Caribbean Paradise Meets Caffeine Culture Make Coffee Not War "I'm in my own world—but it's ok, they know me here." Welcome to the ultimate paradox: finding America's favorite drug dealer serving up what Mexicans call "Dirty Water" in one of the world's most pristine diving destinations. This is Cozumel, where crystal waters meet corporate coffee culture. "The best SBUX in the Caribbean is right here on Rafael E. Melgar LB, Centro, San Miguel de Cozumel" 🏝️ The Perfect Storm of Location Picture this: You've just finished expl...

Grand Cayman- Teenage Dream

Image
Water Park(ing) 5 outside Georgetown this morning The Ocean Waits, and even if you are just staring at it, you are already cruising a little. If you are thinking about   a voyage I would say go. The things you don’t like about cruise ships (buffets, crowds and noise) are not worth mentioning, it is like complaining about your wife to your mother in law.  On a cruise ship, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. When I go onboard, I always sail from Ft Lauderdale, because it is such a pleasant place to get away from. This is Wave Season—the three high-volume months when everybody books a cruise to get away from the winter. Just do it.

Grand Cayman- Teenage Dream

Image
Water Park(ing) 5 outside Georgetown this morning The Ocean Waits, and even if you are just staring at it, you are already cruising a little. If you are thinking about   a voyage I would say go. The things you don’t like about cruise ships (buffets, crowds and noise) are not worth mentioning, it is like complaining about your wife to your mother in law.  On a cruise ship, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. When I go onboard, I always sail from Ft Lauderdale, because it is such a pleasant place to get away from. This is Wave Season—the three high-volume months when everybody books a cruise to get away from the winter. Just do it.

Western Caribbean-YOLO

Image
By the way, Im wearing the smile you gave me 6 Night  Cruise from Galveston T raveling is too important to be taken seriously. YOLO-You only live once, right?  1 universe. 9 planets. 204 countries. 809 islands. 7 seas.  And I had the privilege to meet you. I haven't been everywhere, but it is still on my list. I would have to say that these two ports of call-Grand Cayman and Cozumel are the nicest in the Western Caribbean. These little islands of prosperity, peace and happiness are so exceptionally awesome. Life of PIe- The Road Of Excess Leads To The Palace Of Wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough. The best part of cruising is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time. It puts you  in the position in which almost nothing that is so called “normal and familiar” is taken for granted. It usually starts out with the food.  YOLO took on another meaning-Eating 3 times a week at Nobu Japanese  R...

Key West-Marlin Alley

Image
The copy is better than the original Around here you can live with the assumption that every day is good fishing If it is you are right. If it isn't  you are still fortunate. The  most photographed and stolen sign here Last time I was here-2 years ago Ernest Hemingway - "That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way." Roll Video...

Key West-Marlin Alley

Image
The copy is better than the original Around here you can live with the assumption that every day is good fishing If it is you are right. If it isn't  you are still fortunate. The  most photographed and stolen sign here Last time I was here-2 years ago Ernest Hemingway - "That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way." Roll Video...

Atlantic Ocean-South Florida

Image
Passing the sunshine state on the way to Key West, Ernest Hemingway’s port of call. From the beginning I have had  a sense of destiny , as though my life has  been assigned to me by fate and has to be fulfilled and I have  a sense of security-but I can’t prove it to myself it proves  itself to me over and over again -I don’t have it, it has me. The devil may be in the details but God is in the vagueness, and the human soul needs immensity, like an ocean to ponder, only then  can it be happy and feel free to breath. The remains of the day can get you off your game-freedom, however, is what you do with what has been done to you. I always have the last word in shaping my life; even though the earth school kills all of its student. I have never let my schooling  interfere with  my education. It only ends once---everything else is just progress.  Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part o...

Atlantic Ocean-South Florida

Image
Passing the sunshine state on the way to Key West, Ernest Hemingway’s port of call. From the beginning I have had  a sense of destiny , as though my life has  been assigned to me by fate and has to be fulfilled and I have  a sense of security-but I can’t prove it to myself it proves  itself to me over and over again -I don’t have it, it has me. The devil may be in the details but God is in the vagueness, and the human soul needs immensity, like an ocean to ponder, only then  can it be happy and feel free to breath. The remains of the day can get you off your game-freedom, however, is what you do with what has been done to you. I always have the last word in shaping my life; even though the earth school kills all of its student. I have never let my schooling  interfere with  my education. It only ends once---everything else is just progress.  Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and...

Cape Canaveral---I Need My Space

Image
Tranquility Base, The Ego Has Landed Greetings from the user-friendly universe  Cruise ship service is about downplaying the negatives and creating the illusion of perfection. The FOH (front of the house) is all things to all people. Now that I am finally traveling as a guest.  I  DO  like to be served, but invisibly. Working on floating hotels. you are the United Nations Ambassador,and the whole passenger manifest  become non-persons and are granted an ethical equivalent of diplomatic immunity. Anything goes. No judgments. Still, I know I need a vacation from my vacation, when the little things, like elevator behavior, or grab and go at the buffet line start to irk me. It's actually, the tip of the iceberg. Spending an overnight on land in Central Florida is the best way for me to compare these two mundane worlds. Its a kind of  deliverance , a release from the stronghold of the sea, and its own kind of underbelly, wildness and danger, isolated from the gl...

Castaway Cay-Cloud 10

Image
Bahamas · Castaway Cay · Cloud Nine to Cloud 10 Cloud 10 I no longer live on Cloud Nine. I leveled up—from a carbon-fiber bike in Santa Monica to the Disney Magic, the seven seas, and a life measured in ports rather than postcodes. Castaway Cay Disney Magic Santa Monica 5K Run That Blue Stuff See Full Image Read the Story Show Story Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Operating Belief Environment creates mood. Mood creates momentum. The west coast gave me the natural high. Castaway Cay gave me the designed high. Life at sea became the sustained version. The place changed. Then the operating altitude changed with it. 01 Ordi...

Key West -Like A Rock (Gib)

Image
Bahamian Cruise / Key West / Castaway Cay When the Copy Is Better Than the Original An eight-night passage through Florida, Disney’s private island, and the strange line where paradise becomes performance. See Full Image Show Text An eight-night Bahamian cruise: mostly the Sunshine State, the Florida Keys, and Disney World by way of Port Canaveral. The itinerary looks playful. The deeper story is about places that imitate paradise—and sometimes improve it. Port of Memory 01 Key West: The Good Life, Slightly Offshore I last visited Key West in January 2010 . For me, it is a celebration of the good life and a bygone era. I soon discovered that life in remote Key West was like living in a foreign country while still perched on the southernmost tip of America. Have fun up North doing battle with the Snows of Kilimanjaro. Key West was con...

Archive

Show more