Travel/Adventure Blog

Lots of folks have asked if I will post reports of my adventure to pick up my boat. I don't do social media and given my narcissism, I don't want to use those platforms - not healthy for me, not healthy for society.

Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937, Salvador Dalí

I find the social media business model vulgar, distasteful. I'd rather offer my content like Ira Glass did with This American Life, or perhaps like Craig Foster did with My Octopus Teacher. There are lots of folks vlogging about their sailing adventures - Sailing La Vagabond, Gone with the Wynns, Ruby Rose, the vulgar Sailing Doodles. I don't want to do what they are doing. I don't want to generate traffic and advertise for anybody willing to pay. My ideal is a contemporary The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.

Only Speedos and red knit caps on the boat

I have long term plans to put up a web page for my engineering business and a personal page for my adventuring, but in the meantime, I have this old blog that I haven't used for years. (I squeam at the thought of reading what I wrote all those years ago.) So, my travel/adventure blog will happen here. I'm sure initially it will be much like the sailing vlogs I just dissed - Here's me weighing anchor! Here's me eating dinner! - but it is practice, and maybe I will grow and evolve and eventually create something impactful and transformational.