The Asymmetrical Life

Queen Mary 2 / World Cruise / 2018 The Long Way Home Hong Kong to Southampton The World Cruise finished today. What a ride it has been aboard Cunard’s most famous ocean liner—across oceans, through old ports, and back to Southampton by the route that made distance feel like the point. See Full Image Show Text Voyage Complete More Than Miles Our World Cruise finished today. The journey was more than mileage. It was a long sequence of arrivals that slowly changed what “home” meant. You have not really cruised until you have crossed the world on the last—and only—ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2. Hong Kong Dubai Rome Amalfi Cádiz Southampton 01 Archive Gateway Hong Kong to Southampton The final leg begins in Hong Kong and opens westward. These ...

Hotel @nyware · The Sea Years · Twenty-Year Retrospective Deja Blue — 20 Years of MT Magical Thinking, moving horizons, impossible plans—and the ships and places that made the imagined life real. See Full Image Show Text Magical Thinking Top Destinations The Ships Field Notes Route Archive Field Note 01 · The Operating Belief Magical thinking is imagination with a boarding pass. Déjà Blue is the feeling of returning to an ocean that has already rearranged your life—and discovering that the horizon still has work for you. Magical thinking gets a bad name because people confuse it with wishing. Wishing waits. My version gets underway. For twenty years, the blue kept repeating itself: a new ship, another contract, a fresh port...