Cruise Control-Don't Give Up The Ship
Charting Love
Sarah & Ed
Two people, one chart, and every sea between here and the far side of tomorrow.
We Haven't Been Everywhere. It's On the List.
Put it in your ear and go for a walk. Some stories travel better by sound - the way a story used to arrive, from one voice to one listener, with the miles doing the rest.
Charting Love: Sarah & Ed's Nautical Journey
"Charting Love" - available in full as an audiobook on Amazon.
Our Global Journey
The original interactive map has been replaced with Blogger-safe route cards. Every pin is still here: the place, the coordinates, the short dispatch, and the story link.
Venice, Italy
Gondola Dreams and Acqua Alta - Where water meets wonder
Read the StorySantorini, Greece
Beginner's Mind - Where azure meets infinity
Read the StoryWorld Cruise Atlantic
6 Laps Around The World - Mind Body and Sea
Read the StorySouth Pacific
Isle of Pines Sea Food Diet - Paradise found
Read the StoryMilford Sound, New Zealand
Under Waterfalls - Where mountains meet the sea
Read the StoryWorld Cruise 110 Days
Looking Back - A Year at Sea 2012
Read the StoryDisney's Castaway Cay, Bahamas
Disney's private island paradise
Read the StoryHawaii
Go East Young Man - Aloha spirit and island adventures
Read the StoryHawaii - Life After Luau
Charting New Horizons from Seafarers to Land Lovers
Read the StoryNorwegian Fjords
Grand Voyage & Fjords of Norway
Read the StoryStavanger, Norway
I'm Not All There - Norwegian beauty
Read the StoryPanama Canal
Caribbean Side - Engineering marvel of the world
Read the StoryHong Kong to Southampton
Epic transpacific and transatlantic journey
Read the StorySouthampton, UK
Gateway to the world - End of epic journeys
Read the StoryCruise Ship Life
You Do What On A Cruise Ship?
Read the StoryTravel Gallery
Not a highlight reel. A logbook. Some of these were paradise. Some were just weather. All of them changed the crew.
Venice Gondola Dreams
Santorini, Greece
6 Laps Around The World
South Pacific Paradise
Milford Sound, New Zealand
World Cruise - 110 Days
Disney's Castaway Cay
Hawaii Adventures
Life After Luau
Grand Voyage
Fjords Of Norway
Panama Canal
Hong Kong To Southampton
You Do What On A Ship?
Around The World in 80 Ships
Notes From the Passage
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The Future is Here, but Not Everywhere
Somewhere between here and elsewhere there is a line on the water you cannot see. Cross it going west and you lose a day you never spend. Cross it going east and the day comes back, handed to you like change you didn't earn. The International Dateline is a strange and magical place where time bends and reality shifts. Standing at the edge of tomorrow while yesterday lingers just behind, we find ourselves in a unique position to reflect on the nature of time itself and our journey through it.
I learned this the hard way, in places where clarity was life or death and a clock meant nothing. Time is not a number on a wall. It is a current. Some days it carries you. Some days you swim. Either way, you are moving - and where you point matters more than how fast you go.
A Morning Ritual
Mornings begin with coffee and a jog around the deck, watching the sun paint the horizon in shades of gold and pink. There's something profoundly peaceful about starting each day surrounded by endless ocean, where the rhythm of the waves sets the pace for everything that follows. When you slow down, the world stops shouting. The ship keeps its own hours. Learn to keep them too, and you stop asking the day for permission.
The dog understood this before I did. Skyelark never once checked the time. She read the wind, the light, the smell of the galley, and lived exactly there. Animals are mirrors. They show you what you haven't fully felt.
Monochronic living: Doing one thing at a time, focusing deeply on each moment and experience as it unfolds.
Polychronic living: Juggling multiple experiences and adapting to the constant changes that life at sea brings.
A life needs both, and the sea teaches you which one to reach for. Ashore, we are sold the second and starved of the first. Out here the balance rights itself. You do one thing. You do it fully. Then the next thing comes, and you are already standing where it lands.
The Persistence of Time
Dalí captured this paradox perfectly in his melting clocks-time becomes fluid when you're living between time zones, crossing date lines, and experiencing the world from the unique perspective of a traveler who calls the ocean home. The clock on the cabin wall is a suggestion. The horizon is the only timekeeper that never argues, and it keeps the same hours in every language.
Travel rearranges the furniture in your head. Every border you cross - the ones on maps and the ones inside you - teaches you something about the next. And the quiet lesson under all of it is this: time is not given to you. It is chosen. That is the whole trade of the time millionaire. You stop counting hours and start spending attention, because presence is the only currency the ocean will accept.
What kind of vacation would you choose if you knew you wouldn't remember it?
It is not a riddle. It is a compass. Answer it honestly and you will know exactly how you want to live - at sea, ashore, or somewhere on the line between the two, where the future is already here, but not yet everywhere.