What is Ocean of Hope Foundation? In January 2009 Ridlon and I created Ocean of Hope Foundation. The foundation exists for the purpose of furthering the cause of ocean conservation. Our path is a grass roots operation which initially supplies schools in ocean shore villages the needed infrastructure for basic education and then encompasses [...]
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The Chef is Spitting in Your Soup
The Chef is Spitting in Your Soup I’ve seen both sides of dive travel all over the world – both as a guest and for 20 years on the service/professional side working as a dive instructor, running dive operations and finally owning my own dive expedition company. And during that time I’ve been fortunate [...]
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Friendships and the Adventure Job/Lifestyle
Friendships and an Adventure Lifestyle I love my sister. She and I have always been close and, except for the time when I was 14 and she was 9 and she had a crush on my “boyfriend”, we’ve never had a fight and as it is we still laugh about THAT one! We live across [...]
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Living Your Best Life
In the past two weeks I have had more than a dozen people tell me, “Wow, you’ve got the best job in the world”. I smile and say, “well, it’s not a bad office for sure”. Ridlon and I have returned to work for a cruise line for a time and are back traveling throughout [...]
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The Gift of Summer
Summer always has a certain feel. It reminds me of the smell of the public library, when as a kid Mom would to pick out our summer reading books. After the difficulty of limiting my selections down to five or six, then I could spend the entire day laying in the grass savoring other people’s [...]
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Airline Baggage Fees – Are they ever going to end?
A Very Brief History of Airline Baggage Fees United Airlines started the party in 2005 by instituting airline baggage fees but things didn’t go into full swing until 2008. Two years later, the airline industry has more than 7.8 BILLION reasons annually to continue charging ancillary fees and a proven business model to do so. [...]
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A Place to Slow Down
A Slow Down Place Ok, so I’ve started this post about 12 times. There’s an important message here and I’m trying to get my head around it and pinpoint it. I think the message here is that it is necessary, important, and even critical to slow down at some point, for some specified time (which [...]
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Too Old For an Adventure Job?
Too Old for an Adventure Job? It never occurred to me until recently to even ask if I was too old for an adventure job. Why? Because I’m not old, at least in MY mind. Old is awfully relative don’t you think? Twenty is old to a ten year old and eighty is old to [...]
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Itchy for Adventure Travel?
I’ve got to ask this question, “Am I alone out here????” Does anyone else have these damn itchy feet? I don’t mean that I need some Dr. Scholls foot powder, no I mean the inability to stay put, the insatiable need for movement, the constant curiosity for the world. Do other people wake up and [...]
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How to Choose a SCUBA Diving Destination
How to Choose SCUBA Diving Destination There are many things to think about when choosing a SCUBA diving destination. Here we explore the key ones including: Timing Matching location with Experience Time vs. Distance What else Do I Want to Do on My Diving Vacation? Finances TIMING is everything in choosing a diving destination There [...]
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