by Ray Jason
This is fiction … or is it?
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This time the Shadow Sailor found me.
Usually, I spot him hidden away in some rarely visited cove here in The Archipelago of Bliss. Although his modest 42-foot sailboat is over 30 years old, he keeps her in very good shape. Her only unusual features are a large array of solar panels and a satellite communications dome.
When I first met him, I asked him about these incongruities. Since he barely knew me, he told me that he was an avid “gamer” and was constantly competing via the Internet with opponents scattered all around the world.
Later, when I had earned his trust, he revealed the true reason for his over-sized communication package. He was dedicating himself to trying to unravel “How the world REALLY works.” The SatCom system allowed him to do his research via the World Wide Web from very remote anchorages and even from the middle of the ocean.
He is a man of no country, but he has visited many … more than many. He enters and departs quietly … and unofficially. He is a master at finding hidden spots where the authorities seldom visit. However, although he lives in the Shadows, his life is not gray and dreary and unhappy. He has managed to battle The System without letting the frustration of that combat poison him
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I was alone in a quiet bay when he arrived. As he was setting his anchor, I went topside and waved to him. He motioned for me to come over and visit. My dinghy was already in the water and after I saw him dig in his hook and properly back down on it, I rowed over.
Having just finished wrapping up a couple of bacon, egg and cheese breakfast burritos for myself, I decided to share one of them with him. Climbing aboard, I immediately noticed something different about him, but could not immediately decipher what it was.
As we ate, I realized that he seemed more energized and resolute than he normally is. This was noteworthy, since anyone who had sculpted such a contrary-to-ordinary and semi-dangerous life, was already very focused and determined.
He has an old-fashioned mechanical juicer and he prepared us some orange juice with a squeeze of lime and suggested we go topside. Sitting in the shade of his cockpit awning, he surprised me by pulling a small bottle of rum from his pocket.
He laughed as he noted that it was a little early in the day, but he had something that he wanted to celebrate and commemorate. Any mid-morning reluctance that I may have had, vanished when he told me that he had spent three days searching for me in the archipelago, so that he could share this announcement with me.
We clinked our glasses together and he said, “To new and long-lasting beginnings.” This was clearly an unusual and thought-provoking toast, and I was looking forward to his explanation.
“I am about to begin a bold, new phase of my Life’s Voyage,” he began. This was quite a statement coming from someone who had already arrived and departed from hundreds of ports all around the world.
You know that I believe that the ideal finale to my Life would be a posthumous book in which I share the results of my Quest to understand how the world really works?”
“Of course. It’s hard to forget a goal like that.”
“Well, that damned Gemini AI controversy a few weeks ago shook me to my core. I have long recognized that one of the major goals of the Elites is White Replacement, but I suddenly realized that their plan is even more repellent than that. The don’t just want to replace us, they want to erase us.
These Malignant Overlords, as you so charmingly describe them, have such a grip on narrative control and thus on human perception, that they truly think they can vaporize history. Their Hubris persuades them that they can con future generations into believing that Wakanda is reality and not a movie.
Plus, if they succeed in imposing an Internet 2.0, which would require a digital I.D. to participate, they will be able to remove any dissenters from the World Wide Web. Then Orwell’s dark vision of the Ministry of Truth becomes an everyday reality. They will obliterate the Past, distort the Present and control the Future.”
“Damn,” I replied, “That is a very black-pilled perspective. Does this mean that you will change your plans about only publishing your insights after your death? And more importantly, might you now be willing to join me on the Cyber Watchtowers, trying to alert people to the grim future that is being planned for Humanity?”
“Initially, that was my plan. We have both witnessed the relentless demonization of the White Race for a decade now. They blame us for Slavery even though we did not begin it … and were the first group that voluntarily ended it.
They destroy statues of white heroes who created systems of government and law that benefit billions of people everywhere. They scream that we are Racist even as they replace Meritocracy with anti-White racial quotas in every part of Society.”
The Shadow Sailor paused at this point and took a slow sip from his drink. He pointed to the South and said that he was headed there. I assumed that he meant the South Pacific, but I was wrong. When he began to explain his amazing plan, I remembered how energized and determined he seemed when I saw him an hour earlier. Then he outlined his new Quest.
“I am weary of Words and will embrace Action. My mission … my warrant … if you will … is to insure that I will stand as one against the erasure of thousands of years of White Achievement.
I have long admired your Sea Gypsy Tribe concept, but as you clearly know, I am not a “joiner.” Instead, I will start my own one family Tribe. I will sail to one of the most remote, empty, harsh but exquisitely beautiful spots on Planet Earth. I will sail to Patagonia.
I will seek and find a wife. We will have strong and smart children and learn to survive and flourish in that difficult and dangerous environment. After all, many people believe that the catalyst for the success of our white ancestors was their ability to adapt to the brutal challenges of the high latitudes.
But beyond surviving, my family will dedicate themselves to conserving. While the Malignant Overlords do their best to control information and erase our RACE, I will be using my satellite communication system to silently outsmart them. We will create both a digital and paper archive. This will become a historical cornucopia … a Rosetta Stone that can be passed along far into the future.”
I was so startled by these revelations that I did not realize that he had stopped talking. I have successfully sailed across the Northwest Passage, and so I am intimately familiar with the difficulties and dangers of mixing ice and water.
When I asked him if he wasn’t worried about getting iced-in during the winter, he said that unlike the Arctic there is plenty of navigable water all year round in Chile. Indeed, it is even sunnier at that time with many more blue sky days.
I didn’t spend much time trying to discourage him from his bold endeavor. Instead, we dedicated that gorgeous day to getting mildly drunk and laughing about our strange and eccentric Life Paths.
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That was a week ago. I wonder if he made it through the Canal yet. But I wonder even more about one sentence that had deeply pierced me. He had said that he was “weary of words and wanted to embrace action.”
Was it also time for me to shift away from “just words?”
And, far more importantly, when would my Brethren realize that when your Enemy wants to erase your racial memory, that Enemy cannot be vanquished with just words!
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I love these stories. You’ve crafted a unique and interesting voyage through life, inspiring even.
Hope we cross paths some day.
Thanks, Marc. I feel the same way about your “warrant.” And I too hope that we cross tacks one day.
Hi Marc and the TBP Gang,
Here is a little 4 minute video of a low-budget couple sailing in Patagonia. Their rugged little boat would probably sell for under $40 K. This should help you appreciate how stunning it is down there.
Sailing Patagonia
Ray
Just beautiful. Just like Alaska, places like Prince William Sound, Seward, and Homer. Reminded me of a trip I was on. Was on a fishing trip with friends in there 20′ Sea Dory, went from Whittier to Knight Island. Were fishing, the water is like glass. We would here a big splash, whats that. 20 minutes later a dolphin would come by. Just a perfect day, and yes we did get the limit, two apiece, Halibut.
Why Patagonia? Because it is furthest away from the heat, most likely?
Your story has a ring to it much like a good mix of The Giver and The Book of Eli.
Someone here will like it. Me, too, since I have basically done that. Just have to figure out how to keep it safe and distribute it afterwards.
It is important to have a mission in life, even a narcissistic fantasy one. What will his children do? Who will they marry? What will they build?
Nature finds a way.
They would essentially be living a pioneer family existence except that they would have the very sustainable modern tools that ocean-cruising sailboats have. Because they are inspired by a powerful mission to conserve evidence of the brilliance of racial achievements the bonds within the family would be stronger than normal. Imagine if a Babylonian had deliberately stashed away some scrolls describing what his people had achieved and what their lives were like. This would lessen the amount of Mystery History (as I like to call it) that challenges us. Patagonia is populated with very rugged homesteaders and local indios. Future mating opportunities are already there.
I hope this helps.
Reading about Patagonia it almost makes me want to move there. If I was only a young man again. Some of us back in the day thought long and hard about finding someplace less restrictive / anarcial, wild and wooly, to settle in. Unfortunately, few seemed to suffice the task.
I did, moved to AK when I was 20, built a cabin in woods. Still here. Patagonia looks very AK like.
We’re about to find OUT what a “revived” babylonian “ghod” (named Apollyon) WILL do TO us…as the US military just dug him up from the Euphrates river. Being half-nephilim, they can do THAT. he’s also the coming anti-christ, just wait til it designs an “AI”, for banking….
Do you have any links to this ? Thank you. There are many videos on yootuube about relics dug up in Iraq during Desert Storm. ( Raiders of The Lost Ark was not ‘just’ a movie .)
Like Huxley, H.G. Wells was in the know. He wrote ‘ The New World Order ‘ in 1938.
And This :
” The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells is published. Wells predicts a second world war around 1940, originating from a German-Polish dispute. After 1945, there would be an increasing lack of public safety in “criminally infected” areas. The plan for the “Modern World-State” would succeed on its third attempt (about 1980), and come out of something that occurred in Basra, Iraq.”
Their projected timing may change, but their dominion plans do not.
https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/quotes_from_people_who_consider_us_subjects.htm
And then there is Alois Irlmayer who, in the 1950s, predicted a new war in the Middle East followed by a Russian invasion of Europe all the way through France and the Baltic in a 3 pronged attack, followed by 3 days of darkness during which you must stay indoors because everyone who goes outside and breathes that in will die.
hey Ray have you never heard of the ‘Sumerian’ clay tablets uncovered in the 1880,s
tens of thousands of them, mostly all public records from trade to public health records
etc, an American woman Lana Cantrell wrote her PhD thesis on these medical records
‘the greatest story ever told’
Hi Kiwi,
I believe I heard Graham Hancock discuss them once. Thanks for the reminder.
Love Graham, especially Fingerprints of the Gods.
I’ve enjoyed following your musings here. I’m a Professional Mariner, (Ch/Eng Unlimited, on a 400′ fishing boat in AK).
A few years back the Wife and I passed on purchasing my older sister’s 55′ Tayana cutter called “Migration”. Her and my brother-in-law kept it in the Med for quite a few years, then brought it back to Florida when he began suffering health issues.
As I’ve watched the world devolve since the beginning of the Plandemic, I’ve often kicked myself over having let that opportunity pass. She wound up offloading it for something like $125k.
I envy you your autonomy……
Outstanding, Ray J.
Need more.
He sounds like one of them. Seems to me the ‘white race’ has ultimately brought in the technological society whose trajectory is total conformity and the end.
As an example it hasn’t taken hold in Africa etc. and they may actually have more liberty than us, if not food, at least until recently. Now tech can reign in from afar.
For instance, people talk about tribing up and he himself has left that very same society for an ‘Un-white’ one.
Ultimately it’s not a skin color it’s the heart.
Also, how does he know true history? I’d be interested to know his view on the shape of the earth (and yours). Much more enlightening than race wars.
The following is an interesting take on history especially the part from Noah’s three sons forward. I think it gives a good hint how things may have started and then progressed.
https://custance.org/library_menu.php
Your comment is an excellent example of precisely what The Shadow Sailor is battling – the delusion that all that Whites want to do is conquer. Certainly, the most pathological segment of any society and race do seek dominance, but Whites created mechanisms for diminishing the ability for those Malignant Overlord types to wreak havoc on others.
You might want to take a look at Haiti at the moment before you embrace the nobility of Un-White tribes.
I have sailed over 20,000 miles solo using Celestial Navigation. Every single time I arrived at my desired destination. Celestial Nav is based on a GLOBE-shaped planet.
OR he fell for their propaganda- operation chaos. There’s a kernel of truth, of course- there are differences. The tyrants take that and mess with everything and have been fomenting for a long time.
There’s not just one motive to the obviously engineered’border crises’ and why it’s in the news all of the time. BLM was an obvious hoax on and on.
Blacks are supposedly 13% of the population and congregated mostly in cities (like ALL people). This number is down from 16%. Maybe you could join forces with them to take down the real enemy.
I think the tyrants have been trying to get rid of blacks for a long time (abortion centers, propagandizing their culture, etc).
They want a race war so why give them one? It’s a psych war …
Never mind.
The freaks have been messing in Haiti a long time. Don’t you remember the Clintons part in child trafficking (they caught that one woman). Just like white Ukraine…
Am I to believe that all bigotry by a white man is bad? Is altruism adaptive to ecological selection? What organism have you ever met or known that was truly altruistic? Where do such grand ideas come from? The answer has been given here many, many times.
Here’s a hint: The question of the answer “Why Jews Are Successful” is answered by the answer to the question “Why Has the West Been So Successful?” if one has the mind’s eye to see. Oh, the sly in-group favoritism and the taint of their warfare works!
The culture genocide enemy identifies what their targets need to do to win and vilifies it among the target population before it can gestate in their minds. We have already lost. You defend the indefensible, which is stupid territory to hold for a fight.
Big hint I thought I would not find very soon, but here it is:
The nature of this sadness stands out more clearly if one asks with whom
the adherents of historicism actually empathize. The answer is inevitable:
with the victor. And all the rulers are the heirs of those who conquered
before them. Hence, empathy with the victor invariably benefits the
rulers. Historical materialists know what that means. Whoever has
emerged victorious participates to this day in the triumphal procession inwhich the present rulers step over those who are lying prostrate.
According to traditional practice, the spoils are carried along in the
procession. They are called cultural treasures, and a historical materialist
views them with cautious detachment. For without exception the cultural
treasures he surveys have an origin which he cannot contemplate without
horror. They owe their existence not only to the efforts of the great minds
and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of
their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not at
the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is
not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was
transmitted from one owner to another. A historical materialist therefore
dissociates himself from it as far as possible. He regards it as his task to
brush history against the grain.
Source: Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, “Theses on the Philosophy of History”, thesis 7 (partial).
Some recent CC posts (last three)
– Spring Break Beach Live Streams
– Nancy Mace show how it’s done!
– Can Republican Steve Garvey hold on to win CA Senate seat? He’s up by 190K votes!
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I always enjoy your posts. This one is intriguing. Good luck to the Shadow Sailor.
The >$300k stolen by a state entity PRECLUDED my aviation career, and when I won ALL THREE motions AGAINST the state, they just said , “SO What? What can you do?” ( I THOUGHT about a remote controlled Cessna for a long time into a BRAND NEW courthouse….you fight fire with fire-this ain’t no allah damned joke)
“The don’t just want to replace us, they want to erase us.”
Well, yeah. I’ve been trying to explain this to people for a long time.
They don’t bastardize history and the old stories because, as they say, they want representation. They don’t do it, as some say, because they lack the creativity to write their own stories.
They do it because they don’t want those things to exist (and to have some fun degrading them along the way), to take them from us, and, ultimately, to make it so that those things never existed in the first place.
It’s all right there in Orwell.
Thanks, good story. Wish I would hear the outcome because “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face” (old wisdom never wears out).
As a dedicated solo shadow sailor to find a tough partner, build a bond for mating and family building in hope for proud and strong capable descendants is a quest of it’s own. I wish him all luck.
I saw this Video about Patagonia yesterday. Very remote places like Alaska, but a slightly milder climate. I think, maybe way less government interference. Many real scientists say we are on edge of a a mini ice age. It may end up a bad choice.
This is from the Suspicious Observer. The best science website on the planet. His science is up to date and not mainstream propaganda.
Hi AKJ,
Thanks for that tip on Puyahapi. I have done LOTS of research on Patagonia, but was not aware of that project. I even have the excellent but very expensive cruising guide known affectionately as The Italian Guide because it was put together by two Italian cruisers. Patagonia is one of my four SHTF locations to sail to. Two of them are tropical and two are high latitudes.
Lew has re-posted me a few times in the past. You might want to send him this one. Might be a nice complement to his Puyahapi piece.
Ray
Another great video about the potential for magnet pole reversal. It has South America as the new south pole.
Yeah, I was thinking about the change of climate there to worse also. Though I have considered colder and or more inhospitable places just for lack of overbearing / overarching government.
Thanks for the links.
A New Ice Age would be a gradual, perceptible process. Living in Patagonia so close to Nature, the changes would be noticed and adjusted for.
Government over-reach and tyranny and cultural lunacy occur far more swiftly and therefore garner more of my attention.
BTW, as I tried to show in the Shadow Sailor, the dangers in the high lat North are far worse than in the Southern Hemisphere. The Straits of Magellan don’t ice up. The Northwest Passage does.
Likely, but there has been lots of animals found fast froze in almost pristine conditions. But I agree, which is why I said I had considered harsher places.
I also agree about government, however in my experience, the more remote some place is, the less likely they are to give much of an effort.
Our property deep in the hills in WV had probably not had a government visitor for decades at a time. The one time I was there that the sheriff came out, he was in his own words worried about being sniped from the hills, then causing us grieve.
To your point though, now since it is a big fracking operation and NG infrastructure, they have DHS checkpoints guarding access. Unfortunately, we sold out to the gas company, so it is no longer a concern.
Awhile back, I ran across an article or such that was kind of interesting. It was an old english? jurisdiction whaling station that had been abandoned, with everything in place. Stores, medical facilities, movie theater, processing equipment, etc. Seemed pretty neat. Wish I could recall what the name was. I have it saved somewhere, but that sounds easier than it would be to find it.
Seems there are many at South Georgia, but not sure any of those were the ones.
Josh from Suspicious Observers talks about the flash frozen animals. He gives a very good argument that it was from the pole shifting fast. It leads the mantle to separate from the crust, and the continents shift. Another example is there were trees with no rings found on Spitzbergen island in the Artic. Trees with no rings are only grown at the equator, only season is summer.
Interesting discussion men, but at that stage there is no “good” place to be.
Wise words.
Josh has a map of good places to have a better chance at survival. He emphasis’s that this happens every 12,000 years. But, some people have always survived. Yes, you are on the right track.
Yeah its been somewhat on my mind lately too . But more in the vein of trying to understand why it was that almost all of our politico’s have gone just completely batshit crazy ! Well bad people would behave this way if they thought there basically was no tomorrow , theyd say ” screw it “and let loose doing all of the devious crap that their black hearts desire , like looters basically . Good people would be like the band playing on as they loaded the life rafts on the Titanic (with the women and the children first of course )just to calm people down and give them some measure of peace . Its going to happen the only question is when ,and perhaps some are actually in a position to know when , and perhaps when is much sooner than later . or perhaps not . if such a thing were immeient I don’t know what good knowing about it , for the vast majority of us ,would be so I dont worry about it beyond my fascination with the mass psychosis and it being one of the possible causes of it .
Yeah, I’ve said the same thing in the past, that them knowing something was coming, could explain a lot of their behaviour.
Maybe knowing, would make the behaviour seem even necessarily.
Or they could just be drunk on power. It isn’t like that is unprecedented, as it is rather the historic norm. Technology just gives them more exposure and ability today then in the past.
Interesting about the trees. First I have heard that one. I have heard about the crust sliding of course, but most often hear the flash freeze attributed to the water canopy collapsing (i.e. great flood).
I’d probably listen to Josh more if I got notices from youtube, but they send me none, probably because I have to many subscription.
Here is the link. He does at least one 3 minute video everyday.
https://www.youtube.com/@Suspicious0bservers
Yeah, I’ve been subscribed for years, but as I said, youtube doesn’t send me any notices. Wonder if he is on bitchute or rumble?
Thanks for the link though.
” One of the more unusual things to indulge in while visiting the island is to take advantage of the natural hot springs. Due to its geological temperament, Deception Island has a number of microclimates, which means if you can get past the biting, freezing Antarctic winds and into a volcanic bath, you can enjoy this snowy martian landscape in your swimsuit.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/deception-island-2
https://gizmodo.com/8-abandoned-antarctic-whaling-stations-and-bases-that-a-471066973
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromness,_South_Georgia
I think maybe it was this one. Says it has a cinema and hospital, which is two things I remember. Thanks for the links.
Leith Harbour or Port Leith, 1909-1965
This was once the world’s largest whaling centre, but has been totally abandoned since 1965. The station housed a library, a cinema, and a hospital.
There is a gun mount on the hill behind the station, and another with the original 4.1′ gun on the west side of the harbour.
Yeah, that is definitely it, because I remember them talking about some sort of contamination that made off limits, and the one article I just read said it is because of asbestos. Which sounds like complete BS to me. My grandad worked around asbestos almost his whole life, and died at the age of 74 from a massive stroke.
Here is another little gem from Josh. This could happen right away as many scientists believe the Beaufort Gyre could release with the next two years.
Good one.
Wowsers! There’s some amazing info the tree hugger phony science people must suppress.
The God hater proggies just can’t ever accept the brilliance of His creation and how it self corrects
You got it.
You just sparked an idea inside me. Thanks for the story.
White replacement is an issue … I will move to Patagonia and raise a strong family – if it is not a white woman your are contributing to the white replacement – I LOVE THE WTO! hahahaha
There are more white people in Argentina by % than in the US. He’ll find plenty.
Hi HR,
And Chile as well.
Or you could just stop watching TV. Things ain’t that bad.
Ask people in solitary confinement for a misdemeanor.
I knew a John Bickle back in the navy , Boiler tech , 3rd or 2nd class back in like 83 or so , USS Constellation .
I hope the Haitian cannibals don’t get you
Please do not give up what ever floats your boat… as an author .. You suck so bad i only made it through 5 paragraphs before thing clashed
You, on the other hand, could not complete one sentence that was coherent and properly punctuated.
WHATever.
The Mysterious Stranger needs to get over himself.
I like how those two white men are thinking. With enough irons in the fire, we will not be erased. Of course, I have some thoughts on what to archive, and what to not archive.
Now some critical commentary, because that’s what I do. “The best laid plans of mice and men.” How does one find a white woman not only that amazing but that interested in a particular YOU? I have found that life, certainly life in decline as I have know it, has plans for me. I can’t plan or dictate what’s good for me intrinsically, to wit, grand schemes under the circumstances are far-fetched. That’s not to say that optimal is not unlikely. I’m just saying listen to life and respect the power of it, not to be swept away, but to do for yourself what’s most important to you that has a chance to be done and not totally fucking crazy. With the right woman, that’s a splendid idea, but ain’t that always the trick in gazillionth wave feminism?
Nevertheless, a great idea in theory. I have some ideas of my own. No, you don’t know them. I will give my assessment of what the situation is today. I have been struggling for years for what I want to express as the aftermath of the enemy having won the culture war (clearly seen via 2020 eyes that can see) but still plying the same strategy toward Western oblivion. It was yesterday that I came up with the phrase ‘culture genocide’, as in we have been transitioned from culture war to culture genocide. Whether or not T.H.E.Y. would stop short of completeness, I don’t know and would not throw myself on their mercies to find out. Those Georgia Guidestones said keep the world population under 500,000, so that’s definitive enough for me.
Another thing is this fixation on the W/white race. It is true that harsh conditions select for some sort of excellence. Simply giving the whole white race a pass into the future is very counterproductive. I believe in natural philosophy. There must be consequences, and whatever shade is viable is what’s viable. Who might pick up the cudgels of Western culture in the true sense of culture informed by natural philosophy started by the ancient Greeks in the 6th century BCE? It should be obvious that Jerusalem has no plans to coexist with Athens, and yet you see these fucks here who largely understand the problem and cling to narrative by the enemy. So what are you going to preserve if you can? That is a wonderful prerogative of patriarchal fatherhood, not that I would know from practice. Godspeed without the (((lunacy))).
Patagonia, eh? Chilean Patagonia at that. I’ve gone as far south as Puerto Montt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1U4Z856sW0), my son and his wife to Punta Arenas and the Torres de Paine. Photos from the sea kayak and the rock piles showed my dtr-in-law’s face swollen to twice normal size owing to the winds. Very tough place. That notwithstanding, my “bucket list” has as a remaining item a crossing under sail of the Straits. But for me, time grows short.
Your protagonist’s children will all speak Spanish and his grandchildren will go native, not necessarily bad things. The White race will abide, as will its ethics, culture and mores, but not exactly as they’ve evolved in Europe, North America and the outposts around the world, the Pacific in particular. I strongly believe one could expect far worse, which is why I moved to a backwater in rural Argentina 20 years ago. My faith in the Northern Hemisphere has waned and shows no sign of stopping its setting.
Best of luck with the novel and Buen Viaje!
Hola Cold Mountain,
Felicitaciones on clearing out and especially so early. Although, I left the U.S. in 1992 so poco mas temprano. Please check out the little 4 minute video of the young sailors in Patagonia that I linked way up at the beginning of the Comments.
Torres de Paine are stunning. It took me 86 days to do the Northwest Passage and my face never ballooned up. That is avoidable.
Instead of the Straits of Magellan, I’d recommend rounding Cape Horn. Get yourself to Puerto Williams and hang out at the yacht club there that is actually an old grounded ship. Offer some folks prepping to Round the Horn a few hundred to take you along. Most of them just go around and then return to Puerto Williams or Ushuaia. Chances are you will have a lively rounding but not an “at death’s door” voyage.
We did not discuss this, but I assume the Shadow Sailor would be going native immediately and he would teach his kids both English and Spanish. I’d bet on my friend’s finding a mate. Lots of fincas with rugged cowgirl types, plus end-of-the-world spots like Ushuaia, Puerto Williams, Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas do not attract Disney women.
Mucho Gusto,
Capitan Ramon
Thanks for the reply! I’ll begin by mentioning that I first left the USA as a move in 1973, lived overseas for 13 years, then returned to the USA for 11 years, then left for a year in Mexico and five more back in Spain before I came here. Long time as a sojourner, but I found my “place in the world”! Spanish speakers might enjoy this:
. Some of it was filmed in the village in which I live. Our motto is (translated): “There are still places like this”. So far, so good.
I assume you read My Old Man and the Sea, which convinced me I wouldn’t be trying the Straits as a skipper or for that matter, not likely on anything smaller than 12 meters. Your suggestions are good ones and if I ever get down to Ushuaia, it’ll be to take one of the sail cruises to Punto Arenas. Pushing 78, however, so…
Rounding the Cape might just work for the ol’ guy though!
As for the White woman, well, ain’t too many White gauchas, hell, ain’t too many anybody down there, but where there’s a will there’s a way, so please tell the Shadow Sailor to keep his eyes peeled!
A Place in the World, indeed. Thanks for the movie. Will watch it soon.
Todavia estan lugares come estes. Sounds like you found a sweet spot. Good on ya.
Most boats down there stop a couple of nights on the way to the Horn. The actual rounding is just a few hours and then back to Puerto Williams. Look up Skip Novak on Youtube. He is El Hombre down there. You might be able to get a berth on one of his great expedition sailboats.
Buena suerte.
Capitan Ramon
Gracias de nuevo! This is my village:
https://www.sanjavieronline.com.ar/
I’ll look for Skip Novak, and thanks again. That’s exactly what I’d like to do!
Suerte, amigo!
Bravo Montefrio,
It looks like you either found or created your own Galt’s Gulch. Mira muy amable con mucho tranquilidad.
Skip is a real hero of mine. He probably has no idea who I am, but that is unimportant. If you do mention me, tell him I did the Northwest Passage in 2017. That is somewhat noteworthy. There is an old trappers’ survival hut called Fort Ross up there where the yacht crews sign a log book and inscribe their boat name and crew on the walls. He came through a year or two before us.
Buena suerte en un gran viaje!
Ray
This is friction … or is it?
(Scrape it, wax it, slip-slide away through it.)
“Weary of words …”
Yes.
Grammarians & spellcheckers & we•ary(an)-worry incitements to pre-packaged/infiltrated stings & demoralization. Cue ELO, Long Black Road (it was the muzak in cons-cons-cons/titutional American Hustle, which featured ABSCAM …). Tribe up & catechize … some more. Do that special Reign Dance sing-a-long.
Words that ain’t liquid under your own tiller & keel, or surfboard, or SUP, or hydrofoil are anchors chained (or for the new/improved-mesmerized: “blockchained”) around your heart & head. Limp dictionaries – that’s most of “literacy.” Bread & circus elephants chained down by the merest letter symbols.
But it’s been psych-war since even before “now I know my abc’s, next time won’t you sing with me?”
Putting all those letters/words in mouths is low(down-dirty)tech that hardensharpens the teeth & caries the brains (into hive minds … will ya look at all those cubicle-holes? Rent-free, too) … they are prion-programming backdoors. And front doors. And barn doors. And retractable domes.
Re-SIEVE-ership.
Like Swiss Cheese banking “privacy.” Your $ “or” (means “and”) your life. Take my wife … please … silly wabbits, trix are for kids.
“What we’ve got here is failure to” infiltrate:
Stand pat•agonia has been a dealer-bust mind’s eye o’ mine, too.
But countries, nations, states … if that sugar-coated false/inculcated sense of security is not fully apparent to all now, it will never be (see the clamor for saving/returning to the conveniently presumed sweeter insecurity of days of yore).
Without sight, yet full of insight, & without sound, yet more music than most of the hearing-aided surround, Helen Keller said it:
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
But/except for Old Yellers & Kellers, tho, “Insurance” companies got most numbers in Rolodexes, right Rollo Tomassi? Not to be confused with “the rational male” :
(((Abigail gave frustrated voice to the opposition to this reality once upon a previous time I spiraled it to receivers-who-missed-(of course … no ‘immaculate reception’ even if the rabbit ears be tin foil-wrapped) here. If you believe, have kept the hopium faith, that squares on the chessboard are “borders” you have been rooked. You prefer the lies of language to the true language of actions. To sleep, perchance to dream, is no Shakespearean trouble/problem in The Welcome To The Machine Matrix. And advice – – Wake up. Stand up. Move. – – is irrelevant/superfluous there, too.
See this? It’s bullshit, Vitruvian/American wo/man:
)))
Song/s Of Myself/Yourself solos-silos, not choral peat-repeat-re•repeat Borgs/wamps & Reefers Bands of Oh-Brothers …
… & should Allende•fenestration-to-Pinomachete encroach again, move again …
… trees *are* pretty poems, but hunter-gatherer people ain’t trees (& Kilmer got hisself planted, with boots on, in WW1 by planting himself with the forest that was slated, as usual, to be pulped … unlike Val Doc Holiday, who went boots off – even if harried-cuz-could by a standard wretched institutional-issue Nurse Ratched) …
… & rooteds like to charge (ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH) tree•son: the schizophrenia forest is a/vast … ye scurvy dogswoods & boxed elders & honest-chopped cherry trees whittled down into red//in//dentures & claws.
Trained (like the Man On Fire – who was merely a slower PTSD burnout than the recent self-immolator) is asSailing, asSailing over the bounded function/main of the Bell Curve center of effort (didn’t Hanks fashion sail out of a washed up porta-potty? Symbol-rich environment loses lips & sinks many-many ships) … &, science fiction aside (see below) always will be is the way to bet.
Mobile distance is the stance … while white flight implies wings that were mostly never there (or that were Icarus’uicided) by dishonestly rewriting man-made hurricane & tornado re-pottings-&-couchings All Along The Network Watchtower. Cue mad Ruby Thewes, Cold Mountain:
“I’m mad as hell – Bedlam asylum mad – & I’m not not gonna take it anymore!”
This one has a Patagonian verse, as well as some other recognizable refrains:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men
Postscript-Inscript-Transcript-Error-Free-Lunch-Paid-For-In-Full:
All the best & true things have been written & the waters breaded with it over & over again.
To the extent, always minimal, that chumming the world into a more perfect harmony seems to lure some pure its because “its already in there.”
Baking loaves & Camp Of The Saints handing them out to French mobs doesn’t beget (baguette?) Jean Val Jeans. Believing otherwise, no matter how spittle-flying-fervently, reverses cause & effect.
JVJ was already the breadman -goo-goo g’joob. & Javert never was. Neither could ever be other than what they already were … & neither can anyone else be … anyone else. “All the world’s a stage” is an indictment. Acting is not a legitimate living.
Building Babel Tower Bakery Repository to the receding edge of the universe wouldn’t, couldn’t, change a thing.
(As Carnegie’s libraries a-dotting the fruited plain didn’t, either. & the darpanet? The digital lie•brary has only more fully hybridized & adulterated much of the wheat & all of the the chaff.)
And that means the same thing, always: How to coerce the Wonderbread-&-Immortal-Twinky-washed-down-with-Coke-DNA’d mass majority into behaving … while “leadership” CAFO-robs those followers blind?
Which doesn’t interest me at all. Neither side of that fake fiat coin.
If it did interest me you could call me a node in whichever-whatever ism-metastasism.
Hamiltonism? Sisyphusism? C//ronyism/T//ribalism Scanner Darkly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly
The obvious, evident, reality on full display over the whole of my life is that too many-most do not do what they are obligated to do & do as much of what they are obligated not to do as they can get away with. That that timespan has been so consistently PDDD (prisoners dilemma dime drop) says everything necessary & relevant about before my time so-called “good old days.”
Arendt’s appreciated.
But there’s no evil banality.
Banality is heavily selected for & there’s lots of banal people, is all.
Lots of philanderers.
Lots of Flanders football Fields.
Hardly any philosophers at all.
(Dilettantes & hobbyists & reputation-by-association burnishers attempting to dilute poisonous snake oil are not philosophers … they are relatively cleverer cave wall shadow-sellers.)
Separate your wheat & “let them eat” as much chaff, & shadow, as they like.
Helter Skelter, Renly, Helter Skelter
see that radio?
This deep-state AI commentary is tedious.
Sometimes Remembrance of Things Past can be a real cool work of memory-art hand. But there’s only one subjective valuation that matters (& it isn’t yours).
So … if the reality dougout you paddled (or poled) brought you to this, of what use was the hollow logarithm, or paddle/pole?
Some of your stuff seems legit. So maybe try to get into some weaker current & add something to the corpus-progress of understanding?
Enquiring minds free speechers wanna know … after my elephant-over-the-alps word-ocean to the “shadow sailor goes full retreat”essay-i-assayed response to !poof! it, the essay, disappeared.
After “send” & “awaiting moderation” & “moderation-pass-go” the essay is suddenly nowhere to be seen on the PTBurns “in the camps” (as the gulag guy wrote) … as accessed from my office chair.
& this for the 2nd time – – happened after another post past tense, too. Am I “over target” or did I punch the bullseye clean out?
The truth of the soothsayers is pick a narrative-mythos & call it true … but hypo//dermi//crisy shots in arms & asses & this is spinal (such as is) taps don’t do any bodies good.
Including bodies of commentary.
The crop round here looks more & more sprayed with toxic-desiccant.
The sandlot has gotten golden-older & brought generational geritolerance to bear upon at least one younger voice that I know of.
Increasing decreasing.
That Pacino locker room pep talk in On Any Sunday: “You know, when you get old in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that’s part of life. But you only learn that, when you start losing stuff.”
But … lots of oldsters self-rhinoplasty to spite their faces, too. Or worse … which, subjective again, they might claim “even better!”
What happened here as the New York sunset disappeared?
I found an empty garden among the flagstones there
Who lived here? He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
Now it all looks strange
It’s funny how one insect can damage so much grain – Elton John, Empty Garden
“In mythology and religion
According to local beliefs in Africa, this insect brings good luck.[93] The mantis was revered by the southern African Khoi and San in whose cultures man and nature were intertwined; for its praying posture, the mantis was even named Hottentotsgot (“god of the Hottentots”) in the Afrikaans language that had developed among the first European settlers.[94] However, at least for the San, the mantis was only one of the manifestations of a trickster-deity, ǀKaggen, who could assume many other forms, such as a snake, hare or vulture.[95] Several ancient civilizations did consider the insect to have supernatural powers; for the Greeks, it had the ability to show lost travelers the way home; in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, the “bird-fly” is a minor god that leads the souls of the dead to the underworld; in a list of 9th-century BC Nineveh grasshoppers (buru), the mantis is named necromancer (buru-enmeli) and soothsayer (buru-enmeli-ashaga).[77][96] Some pre-Columbian cultures in western Nicaragua have preserved oral traditions of the mantis as “Madre Culebra”, a powerful predator and symbol of female symbolic authority.[76]
As pets
Gray adult female Carolina mantis in human hand
Mantises are among the insects most widely kept as pets.[97][98] Because the lifespan of a mantis is only about a year, people who want to keep mantises often breed them. In 2013 at least 31 species were kept and bred in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.[99] In 1996 at least 50 species were known to be kept in captivity by members of the Mantis Study Group.[100] The Independent described the “giant Asian praying mantis” as “part stick insect with a touch of Buddhist monk”.[101]”
And Too & So relatedly, was the mantis that ate Abigail an indication of closeted lesbianism-rapine (as am pretty sure Abs is straight) or just a La Mancha getting in fuller touchy-feely with his fem side?