Tag Archives | foreign travel

Eat, Dive, Love….and Pray the Flights are on Time.

*Our latest adventure is taking us throughout eastern Indonesia diving from both a land based resort (www.misoolecoresort.com) and live aboard and finally to Bali to experience the culture, the art and the beauty of that magical place.  Join us as we blog our way through the Mecca of the diving world for the next 30 [...]

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What a Schlep! Arrival at Advanced Base Camp Cho Oyu

This is the final part of my four part story on getting from Kathmandu to Advanced Base Camp at Cho Oyu.  Please follow the links to read the first three parts of this voyage! Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Chinese Base Camp We were on the road to Chinese base camp.  After now adventuring [...]

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La Nina is Coming…Quick…GET TO COCOS

La Nina is coming, La Nina is coming….QUICK get to Cocos!!!! As predicted, the El Nina that normally follow El Nino is happening! AND that means great news for Cocos Island diving….let me explain. Typically when an El Nino happens, temperatures in the waters off Costa Rica and Cocos Island warm.  This causes the schooling [...]

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Me, Myself and I – A Post about….well….Me

My mother told me that during the developmental stages of my life, meaning in the womb, I got stuck in the “gill phase” and that is how I came to be a fish.  That pretty much sums me up! But two things have happened that led me to post about myself in this post because [...]

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Tradition

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There’s something about tradition….something comforting, something satisfying.  It’s a feel good moment that you’ve carried on something important into the future.  It’s a way of belonging. I thought about tradition yesterday as I sailed through Boka Bay.  Boka Bay is a picturesque fjord that winds its way from the bottom of the Adriatic Sea to [...]

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Over the Edge of the World

climbing mt everest

Over the Edge of the World – Over the Edge of the World is the title of a magnificent book about Magellan discovering the straits which bear his name.  I believe this is also where the explorers of the world find their place and their peace, at the literal edge of human existence.  There is [...]

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Dare To Live

adventure lifestyle

Ibiza.  International party town, home of foam and rave and all night discos. A town where a store named, “Just a fucking store” really isn’t out of place.  But today, I arrived at 8:00am on my ship and with departure at 3:00pm I won’t be privy to the nocturnal charade.  Just as well, that’s not [...]

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A pizza, a pitcher of mussels and cultural bias

Adventure Lifestyle

No matter how much you travel you can’t help but bring your cultural bias with you.  I don’t mean bias as in mine is better than yours, I mean that the footprint of your own culture is always the basis of what you think. Today we went out for lunch.  As is quite common of [...]

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An Adventurer Looks at 50

adventure job

An Adventurer looks at 50 Yes, I know, Jimmy Buffet made famous his book about turning 50, which gave me the idea for the title of this post. Well, I’m not 50 and I’m not Jimmy Buffet….but my brother turned 50 this week and it truly made me stop and think. I’m just a few [...]

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Ocean of Hope Foundation

Project Aware kids

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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