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  Limehouse Marina is an oasis of calm cloistered in the midst of  London. View this post on Instagram The Dude Abides A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) on Oct 11, 2020 at 3:38am PDT View this post on Instagram Black Is The New Red A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) on Oct 12, 2020 at 2:37am PDT

Every time I walk into this port town, HMS Warrior- the first armor-plated, iron-hulled warship(1859) is right in the harbor standing tall and proud, a constant reminder of the age of naval dominance and the legacy  of  empire and seapower.  It  is in the misty salt water air too.   HMS Victory, Admiral Horatio Nelson's  namesake ship docked at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard-the Royal Navy's most famous warship,  hard to believe that you can fit 800 sailors on deck.

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 a...

Goring-by-Sea · Pandemic Event Time · Driving / Walking / Cycling Trials Location. Location. Isolation. When the calendar stopped behaving normally, the neighborhood became the destination and Mother Nature became a necessity rather than an amenity. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Close to Home Mother Nature Is Not an Amenity Try the outdoor spaces closest to home. Mother Nature is not an amenity. It is a necessity. There was certainly no shortage of green space, thanks to the generous amounts of rainfall. Father Clock Time had been replaced by Pandemic Event Time. We could not change the content or storyline, but we could gamify our relationship to it and step outside our worries. To be uncertain abou...

Reprint from 2018 World Cruise 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. ...