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In the hills of Eastern Afghanastan 10 miles in 3.5 hours at altitude.  Was it easy? Nope. Was it worth it? Yep. Air quality in Kabul in the winter months can cause more casualties than the war itself. Here is the start of a temperature inversion (Greenhouse gasses) in the distance  These Hikes have been the IN to my sane Different shirt different day Dog day afternoon- a RUFF day with the pack I'm not letting this hike go to waist

Afghanistan / Reflection / The Power of Myth Learning to Fly The right wish draws us toward the right places. Sometimes the destination is less important than the experience of becoming fully alive. See Full Image Show Text “People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I do not think this is what we are really seeking. I think what we are seeking is an experience of being alive.” Joseph Campbell / The Power of Myth Deployment Note This recent deployment to Afghanistan has been one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. Field Note 01 The Right Wish Nothing important in a life feels accidental once you can see the path backward. ...

2018 Hero's Journey Redux · Eastbourne, England Beachy Head: Summit All Up Nice The hero returns to the United Kingdom, leaves London's theatre behind and climbs to the edge of England—where ancient chalk, hard wind and the English Channel reduce a complicated life to one clean horizon. Return chapter South Downs Sea years January 2018 See Full Image Show Story Previously in the journey London gave me the language. Beachy Head removed the words. The city had been a stage: entrances, museums, music halls, Shakespeare and crowds. Eastbourne offered the opposite production—grass, chalk, weather and open water. The Hero's Journey had returned to the United Kingdom, but not to the same country I first entered at twenty. I had crossed oceans since then. I had learned to read harbors, gangways, weather and departure boards. Now the road climbed out of Eastbourne toward a summit where England seemed to stop abruptly ...

Guernsey / Channel Islands / 2015 + 2016 + 2019 Three Times in Guernsey The first trip crossed to Herm. The second entered Victor Hugo’s house. The third returned to discover that the island—and the story—had changed because I had. See Full Image Show Text Field Note 01 Same Island. Three Bearings. Guernsey arrived three times, and each arrival found a different version of the island. In 2015, the movement was outward: St Peter Port, a short ferry crossing, and Herm Island. In 2016, the movement turned inward through the rooms, inscriptions, furniture, and stand-up desk of Victor Hugo’s exiled home. In 2019, I returned after the Bay of Biscay and found both the tranquil harbor and Hugo’s house waiting for another reading. 2015 The Crossing Herm Island, manor village, harbor village, and a post office whose stamps traveled farther than most people. 2016 ...

The Cruising Godfather: Declassified Files File CG-006 · France, Spain and England The Inner Map of Outer Journeys Creative destruction, geographic luck, fear, maritime movement and the private map rewritten by every crossing. View Surveillance Image Restore Briefing Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Series Classification The Cruising Godfather: Declassified Files is a literary persona: part memoir, part cinematic mythology, part maritime intelligence briefing. The covert atmosphere is metaphorical. The crossings, photographs and lessons are real. CODE PHRASE Opening Transmission I believe in America. Ed Reif 3.0 Translation I believed in America enough to leave it. France, Spain and England sharpened the comparison and redrew the map. Operational Meaning Distance changes the evidence. Travel is not an escape from identity. It is the field test that reveals which parts of ide...