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"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." Jean-Paul Sartre 2009  Season: OMG! WTF?    Roll Video The future is full of possibilities that I must constantly shoot in the head, because if you want something GR8, you must be able to limit yourself.   #1 BUI: Embracing The Life Forced Upon Me--OMG! WTF? I have nothing in common with myself anymore #2: Insulin Shock and Awe, eating the Celebrity Solstice #3.Ed Reif and James Hopkins; making the world safe for Hypocracy..er ..I mean Democracy in the cradle of Western civilization---Athens, Greece #4 Buddha Boy Ed Reif ---From Monk to Millionaire--- in Sint Maarteen--It ain't much if it ain't Dutch Success is continued enthusiasm despite failure after failure #5.Never go on trips with anyone you do not love #6 You(th) are as young as your spine is flexible. #7 What color is your Parachute Money? #8 I am at one with the chainsaw. British Virgin islands #9 And did we tell you the name of the game, boy We call ...

Claims for pyramid power have yet to reach the mystical pitch in Dunedin The Pyramid Effect meets The Butterfly Effect Reprint 2/11 As a SNAG,a  sensitive  new-age guy (Similar to the Metrosexual, but more timid), I feel the Celtic soundtrack of Enya... Paint the Sky with Stars and Let The Orinoco Flow...here in New Zealand's South Island town of Dunedin (pronounced DO-NEED-EN); your source for everything Anglo, including today a little drizzle of rain and some London Fog.  To be frank I can't tell you the difference between Celtic, Scottish , Irish or Magnetic North, and, even though I have been all over the British Isles, NZ reminds me of every place I have ever been and more some, because it is so diverse. It acts as a safe house for ex pats and patriotic misfits such s myself. So with nothing to do, and all day to do it, I conducted my own myth busters --What better than to take an adult Time Out to s tudy a bit of sacred geometry and, in honor of Hosnio Mu...

Claims for pyramid power have yet to reach the mystical pitch in Dunedin The Pyramid Effect meets The Butterfly Effect Reprint 2/11 As a SNAG,a  sensitive  new-age guy (Similar to the Metrosexual, but more timid), I feel the Celtic soundtrack of Enya... Paint the Sky with Stars and Let The Orinoco Flow...here in New Zealand's South Island town of Dunedin (pronounced DO-NEED-EN); your source for everything Anglo, including today a little drizzle of rain and some London Fog.  To be frank I can't tell you the difference between Celtic, Scottish , Irish or Magnetic North, and, even though I have been all over the British Isles, NZ reminds me of every place I have ever been and more some, because it is so diverse. It acts as a safe house for ex pats and patriotic misfits such s myself. So with nothing to do, and all day to do it, I conducted my own myth busters --What better than to take an adult Time Out to s tudy a bit of sacred geometry and, in honor of ...

2011 World Cruise · Christchurch, New Zealand Trials What a Difference 48 Hours Can Make A cathedral, a crossing, and photographs taken in the last calm hours before Christchurch changed forever. Christchurch World Cruise 22 February 2011 The Calm Before Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The photographs did not know they were recording a before. Reprint from the February 2011 World Cruise. This was the scene before the Christchurch earthquake and before we headed across the Tasman Sea. Although I am a metric atheist, I now know what 15-metre waves can do. They cause mal de mer . Motion sickness affected everyone, including a seasoned veteran sailor like myself. Field Record The Calm Before the Storms Christchurch first....

2011 World Cruise · Dakar Field Note Foreign Land My Friend, My Friend Near the end of a 110-day crossing from Los Angeles to London, Dakar turned shopping into endurance sport and “no” into the opening bid. Los Angeles to London in 110 Days Dakar Senegal World Cruise Street Markets Field Notes Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir I did not realize I had so many friends in Senegal. “My friend! My friend! Buy my steering wheel. Buy my shirts. Buy my...” Street peddlers would follow you for blocks trying to sell something. They would not take “no,” even in very French, for an answer. I was having a Sophie’s Choice meltdown over choices. One street vendor was such a nice guy—the Oskar Schindler of African ...

Reprint 2/2010 -Bean and Nothingness in The Caribbean Greetings from  Caffeine Central... I ordered a Code Red Eye and saw a talking horse,  Mr. Ed. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard...Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel...Stretch. 

Reprint 2/2010 -Bean and Nothingness in The Caribbean Greetings from  Caffeine Central... I ordered a Code Red Eye and saw a talking horse,  Mr. Ed. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard...Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel...Stretch. 

2011 World Cruise · Christchurch, New Zealand Trials What a Difference 48 Hours Can Make A cathedral, a crossing, and photographs taken in the last calm hours before Christchurch changed forever. Christchurch World Cruise 22 February 2011 The Calm Before Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The photographs did not know they were recording a before. Reprint from the February 2011 World Cruise. This was the scene before the Christchurch earthquake and before we headed across the Tasman Sea. Although I am a metric atheist, I now know what 15-metre waves can do. They cause mal de mer . Motion sickness affected everyone, including a seasoned veteran sailor like myself. Field Record The Calm Before the Storms Christchurch first....

2011 World Cruise · Christchurch, New Zealand Trials What a Difference 48 Hours Can Make A cathedral, a crossing, and photographs taken in the last calm hours before Christchurch changed forever. Christchurch World Cruise 22 February 2011 The Calm Before Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The photographs did not know they were recording a before. Reprint from the February 2011 World Cruise. This was the scene before the Christchurch earthquake and before we headed across the Tasman Sea. Although I am a metric atheist, I now know what 15-metre waves can do. They cause mal de mer . Motion sickness affected everyone, including a seasoned veteran sailor like myself. Field Record The Calm Before the Storms Christchurch first....

Reef Reif The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; a feeling  I cannot quite make it out.  If home is that  feeling, then I am 500 miles away from the sea in this land-locked state--but there is Geist Lake, where water flows upward towards the nice neighborhoods. Think---The Proclaimers hit song  "I would walk 500 miles" meets The Last Samurai