• Setting sail in 185 days

    • Transitioning from this…
    …to this!

     

    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

    Well, I’ve finally reached that point in my life.  That point where I could no longer be happy just staring out at the landscape and wishing I had time to explore it.  Or looking out at the ocean and wondering what’s beyond the horizon.  I couldn’t see myself at retirement age, worn down from stress and 60-hour weeks, only wishing that I had done all of the things that I wanted to.  I’m a prisoner of society’s will for me to have a car, a house, and a stable career, and I need to be liberated.  In the words of John Muir (adventurer, conservationist, and naturalist responsible for preserving my beloved Sierra Nevadas) “the world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

    In the summer of 2012, I’ll leave my dream job, my ten-year career in the Air Force flying F-15E Strike Eagles, ditch my belongings, and pursue the simple life of a free man living on a sailboat – getting closer to the way things were.  This website will incorporate its previous function of featuring my photography, and will also document my preparations & adventures aboard my 27-foot cutter, S/V Saoirse.  Where am I headed first?  I have absolutely no clue, but that’s the beauty of it!

    PURPOSE

    • To help people see that we don’t need to be tied to 9-5 jobs (or 60-hour weeks with completely random schedules in my case), we don’t need fast food and reality TV, and we don’t need fancy cars and designer clothes to live an exciting, fulfilling, and successful life.
    • Not to be just another “cruiser” sharing his adventures…not to be just another photographer showcasing his photos…but to meld these two concepts into something interesting and unique.  And in the process help people see the world in an educational, different, and positive manner.