Deja Blue
⛵ Deja Blue
A Life Charted by Love and Wanderlust
When home is wherever the horizon meets the heart
Featured Voyages: Stories from the Deep Blue
Charting Love
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This post is a poetic blend of travel memoir, philosophy, and personal transformation, celebrating how love and travel interconnect to shape identity, rhythm, and perception of time. It's a vivid invitation to view life as a journey across tides and timelines.
Read the Full Journey ⚓Go East Young Man
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When the Pacific calls, you answer
After island-hopping from Maui to Oahu, Ed turns a car into a mobile home and lands an unexpected role at Hawaii Film Studios. It's a tale of risk, reinvention, and chasing dreams under Pacific skies. Sometimes the best destinations aren't on any map—they're found in the courage to say yes to the unknown.
You Do What On A Ship?
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Unhoused but not unrooted
A decade into life at sea, Ed reflects on the unconventional choice to be a full-time cruise ship traveler. This post lifts the curtain on what it means to call the ocean your home. It's a masterclass in redefining success: when your office has a view of the world and your commute involves watching dolphins dance alongside your wake.
Queen Mary 2 World Cruise Highlights
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From Hong Kong to Southampton: Epic transpacific and transatlantic journey
Join Ed aboard the legendary Queen Mary 2 as he recounts moments from a world cruise that spanned continents and rewrote his personal map—one port and one memory at a time. Some journeys change your itinerary; others change your soul. This is definitely the latter.
Crystal World Cruise
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Luxury as pilgrimage
Flashback to a year of globe-spanning travel aboard the Crystal Cruises line. Each stop brought a new story, each journey a lesson in wonder. This is what happens when you treat travel not as escape from life, but as life itself—lived with intention, seasoned with gratitude, and served with a side of endless possibility.
From Seafarer's Academy to Pacific Dreams
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When the compass swings from structure to storytelling
Ed charts his transformation from Merchant Marine cadet to Cruise Director. This is a voyage of purpose, where duty evolves into passion and rigid schedules give way to fluid adventures. It's proof that sometimes the best career moves happen when you stop climbing ladders and start following currents.
Funemployment
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Time wealth over material wealth
Ed and Sarah reframe joblessness as joy. "Funemployment" becomes a philosophy of time wealth, lived out on luxury liners and soaked in lessons from around the world. When your bank account measures memories instead of money, every day is payday.
Hotel @nyware
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Where Wi-Fi connects and creativity flows
For digital nomads like Ed, the laptop is the new address. Explore the idea of "home" redefined as wherever the Wi-Fi connects and creativity flows—from sea to screen. In their world, the phrase "working remotely" takes on oceanic proportions.
🧭 The Motion Principle
What emerges from these stories isn't just a collection of travel tales, but a blueprint for intentional living. Sarah and Ed haven't just chosen an unconventional lifestyle—they've created a masterpiece of mindful wandering where every sunset is both an ending and a beginning.
Their journey challenges our most basic assumptions about stability, success, and what it means to build a life together. They've proven that home isn't where you hang your hat—it's where you hang your heart. And sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is admit that your heart belongs to the horizon.
"What kind of vacation would you choose if you knew you wouldn't remember it?" This question cuts to the heart of their philosophy. For Sarah and Ed, the answer is clear: they'd choose the same life they're living now—one where every moment is worth forgetting because it's immediately replaced by another moment equally worth living.
🌅 Charting Your Own Course
Home is a feeling, not a place
True belonging comes from within and from the people we choose to journey alongside
Time wealth trumps material wealth
The richest life is one filled with experiences that expand your soul
Love deepens with distance
Sharing adventures creates bonds stronger than any anchor
Every ending is a new beginning
Each port of call, each sunset, each goodbye makes space for new hellos
⚓ Setting Sail
In a world that often feels increasingly connected yet somehow more divided, Sarah and Ed's story reminds us that the best antidote to uncertainty isn't more security—it's more adventure. Their "Deja Blue" isn't just about seeing the same ocean views repeatedly; it's about choosing wonder as a daily practice and love as a navigational tool.
"Sometimes the best way to find yourself is to get completely, beautifully, intentionally lost."
After all, as they've discovered across six laps around the world, the most extraordinary journeys aren't about reaching a destination—they're about becoming the kind of people worthy of the adventure.
Bon voyage, fellow dreamers. The horizon is calling. 🌊