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The Geography Of Bliss

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We are all tourists and God is our travel agent  who has already fixed our routes, reservations and destinations.  So enjoy the trip called LIFE

South Florida-Reopening

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So in Retrospect, when you were making your 5 year plan in 2015, hands up, who got this right? View this post on Instagram Drive In theaters making a comeback A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) on May 23, 2020 at 6:19pm PDT View this post on Instagram Anyone working in retail is wearing a cloth mask. Just returning the favor. I'm sure there will be a few more policy changes down the road A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) on May 23, 2020 at 4:41am PDT View this post on Instagram Shutting down was easy.. reopening in the right order not so easy...Some beaches are open for Summer (this week)-nice start. A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) on May 23, 2020 at 2:07am PDT View this post on Instagram ...

Postcards From A to Z Around The World

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It is very important that  expedition history not be distilled to just those great man and woman like Magellan,  Edmund Hillary, Lewis  and Clark et al., but to the regular folk  who  go out to do their own exploring and circumnavigation of the Earth and then blog about it-literature in a hurry. "You worked on a cruise ship and you worked  in a war zone,huh?" Yep, from cruise ship to cruise missiles. Same thing , "At your service. Yes Maam, Yes Sir". Both are- The Hospitality Industry. Both are 24- hour work environments. Documenting these travels with pictures has the added advantage of it being true, and therefore you have to tolerate contradictions and see things from different perspectives. No matter where I go there I am. I can still look up at the same moon, stars albeit different hemisphere. It innately belongs to all of us, children of this planet.  I'm stricken by, what poet Diane Ackerman calls " the ricochet wonde...