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Old Galveston-The Power of NEW

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Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mamma. Another week at sea onboard the Disney Magic. It all starts on embarkation day here in Texas.

Cozumel-Legal Tender

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Like suburban California without Los Angry Cars. Self Employment sometimes made harder by difficult boss- "I am not a businessman, I am a business, man!" That's what the locals are doing here $elling everything- It's a pain in the English. Cozumel  locals speak English as a second language. Money is their first one.

- Adventures in Ennu Nowhere Fast

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The Top 5 Most Boring Cities On Planet Earth 🏢 😴 🚇 📋 ☁️ The Top 5 Most Boring Cities On Planet Earth "Where Dreams Go To Die" #5 Singapore The Happy Dictatorship where the Thought Police give tickets for wearing headphones or chewing gum in public. It's just a clean, convenient place to stop over before moving on. Singapore: Where efficiency meets soul-crushing conformity. Every street looks the same, every rule is enforced, and every spontaneous moment is taxed. See: A Pain In The English ...

Planet Pick Axe: You Can Mine for Gold or Sell Pickaxes

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Alaska · Ship Life · The Power of New The Elixir · Resourcefulness Planet Pick Axe You can mine for gold, or you can sell pickaxes. I went to sea to monetize my best asset—myself—and discovered that the richer currency was time, story, reinvention, and the people who made the voyage endure. Alaska Entrepreneurship Ship / Shift Time Millionaire Rust Never Sleeps See Full Image Go to the Elixir Show Story Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir “My universe is made of stories, not atoms.” Land, air, sea, and the power of now became my curriculum. The scenery painted itself. I was only the middleman—the witness who learned that some experiences cannot be created. They must be und...

An I For An Island

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes I thought of my job as Art Director  as leading people to those moments of awe – that ephiphany  that overtakes you when you encounter a new idea, or place.  There is no doubt about it, the exhilarating state of mind that travel can evoke, when everything seems suddenly fresh, vivid, intensely interesting, and memorable. It's rare when  the mode of transportation - The Oasis of the Seas - to get you to these places usurps the destination. This was April 2012 and it did.

Fiji Islands-Savusavu-Cue The Sun

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South Pacific Field Notes Foreign Land Fiji Paradise The Law of Diminishing Returns: what happens when paradise stops feeling rare, the wow factor begins to fade, and Fiji becomes a field test of attention. Enter the Story Companion Story Fiji South Pacific Diminishing Returns Attention Foreign Land Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Coming home to a place I've never been before. It's Fee-Gee - Fiji. How did I end up in a place like this? Favoritism. John Denver visited this island today - Sunshine on My Shoulders. You can't get any further away before you start coming back. Imagine sailing across the blue waters of the South Pacific, passing i...