In One yEar And Out the Other

Ed Reif / The World Tour / 2008

Foreign LandFrom the World Poker Tour to the World (Not Poker) Tour

The chips stayed in the photograph. The itinerary kept moving: Mediterranean ports, Baltic capitals, northern crossings, and the long way back south.

Field Note 01

A poker photograph marks the departure point. What follows is not one tournament stop, but an expanding map of cities, islands, canals, and ports.

Ed Reif with poker chips in July 2008
07-15-08 Ed Reif, Chips 3 Best

The Asymmetric Equation

Silence + Distance = Signal

The farther the route moved from the table, the larger the game became.

Travel Timeline

The World, Port by Port

Five movements through Europe, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, North Africa, and the eastern edge of the sea.

First / June-July

The Mediterranean Opening

  • Athens, Greece
  • Naples, Italy
  • Messina, Sicily
  • Istanbul, Turkey
  • Mykonos, Santorini & Rhodes, Greece
  • Ephesus, Turkey
  • Rome, Italy

Now / August

The Baltic Run

  • Helsinki, Finland
  • St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Tallinn, Estonia
  • Stockholm, Sweden
  • Lübeck (Travemünde), Germany
  • Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Berlin, Germany

Next / August

North Sea and Atlantic

  • Oslo, Norway
  • Edinburgh, Scrabster & Oban, Scotland
  • Dublin & Waterford, Ireland
  • Dartmouth, U.K.
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Kiel Canal, Germany

Then / September

South Again

  • Barcelona, Spain
  • St. Tropez, France
  • Monte Carlo, Monaco
  • Florence / Pisa, Italy
  • Taormina, Sicily
  • Valletta, Malta
  • Tunis, Tunisia
  • Mahon (Menorca), Spain
  • Palma de Mallorca

Then / Late September

The Eastern Mediterranean

  • Alexandria, Egypt
  • Ashdod & Haifa, Israel
  • Limassol, Cyprus
  • Antalya, Turkey
  • Rhodes, Chios & Mykonos, Greece
  • Taormina, Sicily
  • Sorrento, Italy

The Elixir

Experience + Form = Elixir

The poker tour supplied the opening metaphor. The world tour supplied the larger table: unfamiliar cities, repeated departures, and a life measured in ports instead of blinds.

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