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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 Father Clock Time had been replaced by Pandemic Event Time.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. ...

UK / Ireland / Pandemic Memory / Before Covid Covid-19 And The Stiff Upper Lip A Journey Through Pandemic Times and UK Memories See Full Image Show Text Opening Signal Not Talking About the Pandemic Was Like Denying Gravity Back in The U.K. after a visit to Ireland. Not talking about The Pandemic is like denying gravity exists. That ostrich approach of sticking our collective head in the sand will not delay or deny the medical catastrophe, the logistics nightmare and the financial Armageddon that each of us experience in our own idiosyncratic ways. Call it malignant optimism, but the shared hallucination that it is "just the flu" is junk science. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger but make no mistake about it: This virus can kill. It doesn't have a brain, but we do. Careers are on hold, people are in limbo, and there are only two ways this epidemic will end: Medically, probably never. Socially, when...

Jamaica Caribbean Experience - Falmouth & Beyond 🇯🇲 Jamaica Experience Falmouth & Beyond - Caribbean Soul 🌴 One Love, One Heart 🚢 Colonial Falmouth The new(er) port of Falmouth looks so colonial and British Empire authentic. Sailed here several times this decade, with Royal Caribbean, MSC and like today, Disney. Each visit reveals new layers of this historic Caribbean gem, where colonial architecture meets modern cruise infrastructure in perfect harmony. 🍺 Just Do It...Later Swish... with Red Stripe Beer ...