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Looking Back Years at Sea

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Ed Reif & Sarah Kennedy · World Cruise 2011 The Elixir The World Became the Story A journey across the globe—one port, one story, one unforgettable moment at a time. The route ended. The field notes kept moving. World Cruise 2011 Seven Regions Twenty-Five Stories The Elixir Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The ports were never merely stops. Each one became a sentence, a photograph, a joke, a lesson—or sometimes all four at once. Ship's Library Twenty-Five Ways Back This archive is the return gift: a navigable record of what the voyage revealed. Journey Equation Experience + Form = Elixir The cruise crossed the world. The stories made the crossing repeatable. The Travellers Ed Reif & Sarah Kennedy Two portraits from a voyage that became a long-form memory map. Mr Ed · World Cruise 2011 Ed...

Finding The Travel Molecule

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Sea Years / Mind Travel / Field Notes You Are HERE. Travel With ME. Travel can alter perceptions—and may even rewire your brain. Novelty turns attention back on. See Full Image Show Text Signal 01 The Gift of Pure Attention Novelty, movement and one-of-a-kind experiences create optimism, curiosity and creativity. The road changes the view—and sometimes the viewer. Archive Image / The Road Changes the Viewer Travel can alter perceptions and may even rewire your brain. Novelty and unique, one-of-a-kind experiences raise dopamine levels—the chemical in your head associated here with optimism, curiosity and creativity. This gift of pure attention is harder to achieve when your brain is ON French Fries —the default American mode...

Eastern Province-Dessert

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The Empire Strikes Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack Mr Ed Arabian Stallion One Lump Or Two Intense/In Tents frankly Scarlett, I don't give a lamb

Eastern Province-Dessert

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The Empire Strikes Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack Mr Ed Arabian Stallion One Lump Or Two Intense/In Tents frankly Scarlett, I don't give a lamb

4 days at sea in the Indian Ocean, then Mauritius

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The  beaches of Mauritius-Africa Write? Right! Blogging is literature in a hurry. Tourists    generally, don't see a country as it is, they   see them as theirs is.This requires expending tremendous amounts of energy to have so called   “normal” experiences   on vacations; where taking a safari is actually seeing all the caged stuffed animals in the zoo. Travelers have occurrences, while abroad. They cannot be created,   they    undergo them.   They are somatic and     visceral and in-your-face. Too bad my videos don’t include SMELL-avision. The stench to my olfactory is awesome! without imitation, without precedent.   For these occurrences     to become an adventure,    however, it is necessary to recount them later at a cocktail party or blogging about them. Should I kill myself, or have a cup of   Starbucks coffee? When I travel these unusual places of poverty and despair,   I   must...

4 days at sea in the Indian Ocean, then Mauritius

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The  beaches of Mauritius-Africa Write? Right! Blogging is literature in a hurry. Tourists    generally, don't see a country as it is, they   see them as theirs is.This requires expending tremendous amounts of energy to have so called   “normal” experiences   on vacations; where taking a safari is actually seeing all the caged stuffed animals in the zoo. Travelers have occurrences, while abroad. They cannot be created,   they    undergo them.   They are somatic and     visceral and in-your-face. Too bad my videos don’t include SMELL-avision. The stench to my olfactory is awesome! without imitation, without precedent.   For these occurrences     to become an adventure,    however, it is necessary to recount them later at a cocktail party or blogging about them. Should I kill myself, or have a cup of   Starbucks coffee? When I travel these unusual places of poverty and despair,   ...

Bahrain-Hump Day@Camellot

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Bahrain: Kingdom of Camel Beauty & Island Adventures 🐪 🏝️ 🏁 🌊 🐫 Bahrain Kingdom of Camel Beauty & Island Adventures "Hump Day Every Day" Island Discovery Small Island, Big Adventures Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain is a small island country situated near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. We got there by car, from Al Khobar, over the King Faud Causeway; a series of bridges and causeways connecting Saudi Arabia with the island. It has that Key West-Island-Hopping-Feel to it, but not quite as spectacular as 7 mile causeway that links Florida with The Keys. ...

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