I Walked The Walk

This Is Your Brain On Travel

10 Cosmic Cruises That Rewired My Neural Networks

I didn't burn this bridge - I built new neural pathways

There is no YES in Yesterday and the one day that nothing can be done is someday. I turned the slogan "Just Do It" into "Just Done It." Swish...

🧠 Neural Network Activation Video
Dopamine pathways firing across synapses

Here are 10 Cruises (And Destinations) I had to go on before I died:

Venice

Gondola Dreams And Acqua Alta (High Water) - Where ancient neural pathways meet modern consciousness in floating palazzos.

Dubai

Strange But Awesome - A city built by dreams where the impossible becomes inevitable, rewiring expectation centers.

The Panama Canal

Engineering marvel that mirrors the complexity of neural connections - where two oceans meet and consciousness expands.

Alaska - The Great Land

Action Plan for consciousness expansion in the last frontier where primal beauty activates ancient memory circuits.

Santorini, Greece

Let The Orinoco Flow - Where ancient civilization meets infinite blue, triggering transcendental neural states.

Maldives Islands

Consciousness Is Wireless - Floating in paradise where the mind disconnects from terrestrial limitations.

Bora Bora

Tahiti - Stopover In Paradise where volcanic peaks pierce consciousness and lagoons reflect infinite possibility.

The Fjords of Norway

Mother Nature and Father Time Are Effin Special - Where geological time meets human consciousness in perfect harmony.

The Fjords of New Zealand

Milford Sound - Are We There Yet? The eighth wonder triggering wonder circuits in the brain's deepest networks.

The Oasis Of The Seas

Game Changer - The Ship IS the destination. A 225,282-ton neural network floating on infinite blue possibilities.

This Is Your Brain On Travel

Neural Plasticity

Travel can alter perceptions and may even rewire your brain. Novelty and unique one-of-a-kind experiences raise dopamine levels, the chemical in your head that gives you optimism, curiosity and creativity.

Neurons That Wire Together Fire Together

The Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road, but neurons that wire together fire together, and the best way to predict the future is to INVENT it.

Psychological Distance

The need to break free and sail away is ancient, enduring and incessant. Voyages trigger a concept called psychological distance: Something about the experience of leaving your place creates a shock and awe, a pathway into a new perspective that floods the brain with ideas.

Traveling = f(dopamine flow); Money = happiness

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy travel and new experiences, which is kinda the same thing"

Freedom is what you do to what has been done to you—even if what has been done is being born in America, the cultural equivalent of the geographically-desirable-places-to-live-on-the-planet lottery. So why squander your inheritance and live in The United States of Unconsciousness.

Wired Verses Tired - Grey Matters

State It Then Create It

Before you can take your path you must live it in thought. My thought makes me travel and create archives of experience and expectation where I incinerate negativity and have a mindfulness of pure attention, without advice, without judgments.

The 3 P's

Practice. Practice. Practice. The hardest arithmetic I've had to master is the one which enables me to count my blessings. It requires a long apprenticeship. Cruising around the world provides a legitimate short cut for taking things with gratitude instead of for granted.

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea." - Karen Blixen (Out of Africa)

Joseph Campbell's Wisdom

"All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time - namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."

— Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)

I used to think working on cruise ships was bad, but I stopped thinking - I guess I have ship for brains!

You are HERE. Travel with ME...

The experiences at sea turned my can't into cans and leveraged my Adventures (which was nothing more than bad planning) into serendipity—a thousand unseen helping hands of allies, synchronicity, and the Michelangelo effect.

Neural Networks Activated

Every cruise changes my life in some way. Ships are weirdly the most lucid part of my existence.
The universe is in our head, and not out there separate from us.