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Sea Years · World Voyage · 2018 The Hero’s Journey Redux The first journey teaches you how to leave. The next one asks whether all that movement has changed the person who keeps arriving. Unconventional but consistent: we travel the world. See the full horizon Show the story Prologue · The cycle begins again The hero returned to the road before he had finished returning to himself. A Hero’s Journey is not a single triumphant circle. It is a tide. You leave, are tested, return with something useful—and discover that the next crossing has already begun. By 2018 I was no reluctant novice waiting for permission. I knew airports, gangways, hotel rooms, ports, currencies and the peculiar intimacy of watching a coastline disappear. Travel had become competence. That was precisely the problem. When the extraordinary becomes routine, motion can become camouflage. The year’s deeper task was not to see more of the world. It was to determine whether repeated departure still produced transfor...

Geoawesomeness-3DR Aero-M Fixed Wing UAV The aerial perspective offered by unmanned aerial vehicles is the perfect platform for acquiring highly detailed data for large-scale operations such as farming, construction, and today's project---beach conservation. Accuracy is the name of the game. It's simple  with GPS, digital cameras and powerful computers. Surveys are within an accuracy down to 1 to 2 cm These small flying machines have made mapping any area a matter of few minutes or hours, instead of the typical days or weeks it used to take. Stitch the images together and you generate 3D models. This is Aerial Photogrammetry : Multiple overlapping photos (80 to 90% overlap) of the ground or model are taken as the UAV flies along an autonomous programmed flight path called a waypoint. To overlap photos of an object or land by 80 to 90% would be impossible to complete accurately by pilot navigation.

Lil'ampton in the Arun District of West Sussex, England lies on the English Channel on the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun. The Battle of Britain saw Luftwaffe raids on Littlehampton. Hard to imagine in these tranquil bucolic settings. I like writing about my travels, but I don’t like the paperwork. So I blog---Literature in a hurry, right? Last month in Los Angeles, CA, I subscribed to Naturalist John Muir's comment, "With all the roads you take, make sure some of them are dirt" and explored the Santa  Monica Mountains.  This month I am adding  rocky-beach-coastal walks to the mix, as it is Sussex by Sea all week. Climping has a dune eco system and its rocks. It's nice to go on a digital diet and unplug with an arural, primitive and circadian walk along the beach Chalk and walk in Eastbourne  Much of the coast of South-East England is Chalk. Think White Cliffs Of Dover or  here in Eastbourne's Beachy Head ...

Armistice Day falls each year on 11 November to mark the day in 1918 when the fighting in World War One was stopped. That is 100 years ago today. We reflect and remember those who lost their lives in service to their country. In The UK Today At The Beaches of Normandy WW2 for D Day Our great Uncle Joe McDonald we remember 

Reprint from 2018 Brighton / Sea Years / Reinvention No Noose Is Good News A travel writer runs out of worlds to conquer, comes ashore on the English Channel, counts his blessings, and discovers that a bicycle can turn friction into momentum. See Full Image ⚓ Back Home In West Sussex Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Trial “If you smell something burning, it is my future as a travel writer going up in smoke.” The future of voyage journaling just isn’t what it used to be. I visited enough inhospitable and exotic locations—human Petri dishes from Angkor Wat to the Philippines, India, and Dakar—but the shock-and-awe omnivore revelations eventually felt like stunts. What remained was the elevated sense of oth...