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Florida · Palm Beach · Cocoa Beach · Port Canaveral Foreign Land Florida: America's Australia Heat, hurricanes, love bugs, alligators, cruise ports, retirement rehearsals, and the strange truth that the Sunshine State is both launch pad and punchline. See Full Image Sunshine State Cruise Ports Cocoa Beach Palm Beach Kennedy Space Center Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Florida is America's Australia: not quite a prison colony, but definitely a sunny place for shady people. The whole state feels like coastline. It is hurricane-prone, and the only place it does not rain is indoors. But let us begin with the obvious: it is hot. All those retirees are doing a dress rehearsal for heck. When they finally arrive, it will be Boca Raton all over again. Field Rule Sunblock by Day. Insect Repellent by Night. Florida does not ask whether you are prepared. It simply deploys heat, humidity, mosqui...

The Will Rogers Polo Club in Pacific Palisades, is the only remaining polo club in Los Angeles. (It's like field hockey with 2 goals.). Established  by Roger's in 1926, it hasn't changed much. Will's Will donated the park for the public, and the will of Will's will, the preservation efforts, are ongoing. Today there are matches at 10am and 2pm. I was on my hike-run and watched the horses arrive by trailers. Back in the day, Rogers and his hollywood friends Spencer Tracy, Walt Disney and Clark Gable would play polo at the field on weekends. Then head our ro The Beverly Hills Hotel for drinks,The Polo Lounge became a popular watering hole and got its namesake from the movie stars.                   Yesterday's event View this post on Instagram My shoes are laced with something because I tripped twice while hiking. A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) on Sep 2, 2018 at 12:55pm PDT

Queen Mary 2 / Two Lives at Sea / 2016–2018 The Long Way Home Passengers This Time In 2018, while I waited for the security clearance that would take me to work in Afghanistan, Sarah and I boarded Queen Mary 2 in Hong Kong. After years shaped by working at sea, we crossed to Southampton as passengers this time. See Full Image Show Text The Unexpected Interval Between the Crew Door and the Passenger Gangway My next destination was supposed to be Afghanistan. First, the security clearance had to catch up with the assignment. Bureaucratic time opened an ocean-sized interval, and Sarah and I stepped into it. We joined Queen Mary 2 in Hong Kong and sailed west to Southampton. The geography was spectacular, but the deeper story was the change in role: after the working-at-sea years, the ship was no longer a workplace we helped operate. For once, it carried us. Hong Kong Duba...

California Years / Santa Monica / Pacific Landfall Harbor Without Moorings A Zen sailor comes ashore in Santa Monica and discovers that dry land moves too—only the currents are traffic, ambition, memory, and the difficult art of staying put. See Video Original Field Notes · 2018 Santa Monica before the hindsight. Pacific edge / Los Angeles The original visual journal appears first: moving pictures, Ocean Boulevard, Will Rogers, the mountains, Marina del Rey, Route 66, and the everyday California scenes that became the source material for the story that follows. Santa Monica moving picture archive. Ocean Boulevard Will Roger's State Park Taking a hike in the mountains California field video. With all the roads you take, make sure some of them are dirt The quintessential California car—the 1963 Corvette convertible. I'm too big for it now—Not much leg room. ...