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7 Cruises To Go On Before You Die

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The Cruising Godfather: Declassified Files 7 Cruises I Had to Go On Before I Died Seven voyages that turned a bucket list into a work schedule, a passport into an operating system, and the sea into a second education. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir I hoped the Pacific was as big and blue as it was in my dreams. It was. Having no education can be an economic death sentence, but a unique talent grants you a global passport: free to know, go, and do. Talent makes capital dance. I sold my cleverness and bought bewilderment. Luck became more predictable when I took more chances. The road to excess led to the palace of wisdom, then to voluntary simplicity: getting rid of what did not serve me became a value-add. At sea, the always-on consumer culture disappeared. Creativity returned. Focus returned. I was not trying to be better than anyone else, only better than I used to b...

Bahamas-Leader-SHIP

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5K Run Just Done It...Swish Time Machine Age 40 is the old age of youth--had 8% body fat and a six pack,  I ran the Los Angeles Marathon, Now A Decade+ is the youth of old age---when I traveled 45 countries, by land, sea, air, foot and bicycle. It's like the unplugged version of Eric Clapton's Layla. I jog!

Key West-The Gibraltar of The USA

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Key West / Hemingway / Island Time / Ma Key West Time Where Every Moment is an Island Paradise Anytime IS Key West Time Key West has an idea on how to spend time: Do nothing. This is the "personality" and PACE of KW. Once you make the conscious choice to tune into it, the ocean awaits-it's the space between things. Paradise Found Paradise Found Key West Image 01 Key West Today Living like in a foreign country while still perched on the southernmost tip of America. The Gibraltar of the West, only 90 miles from Cuba, where time moves to the rhythm of the tides. Key West Image 02 Procrastinate Now The harbor where boats sway gently, teaching us the art of taking it easy. Allowing things to happen rather than being busy, embracing the Japanese concept ...

Kennedy Space Center-FL-I Need My Space

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Re-View In Titusville Today Legend In My Own Mind It’s easy come easy go with sailing  memories, as the older I get the better my past gets. Everyone lives with self  mythology.  I am no miraculous exception.    A  figment  of my  imagination, I a legend in my own mind. It's not brain surgery, it's rocket science, fooled by randomness, I have left everything up to chance, yet my "career" at sea  reads like a novel, page by page. I am the hero of my own life. This self  mythology are the stories I tell about myself. The more  I tell these stories the less likely they are true.  Going on land to get a more  accurate view of the world and myself can be shocking---Life on board a ship is like a carton of milk, with an expiration date stamped right on the carton. Understanding the mythology of myself at sea  is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened. The more importan...