{"id":6494,"date":"2009-07-17T20:33:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T03:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2009-07-18T06:33:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T13:33:41","slug":"a-sailor-jerry-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6494\/a-sailor-jerry-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sailor Jerry Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tattoo\"<\/p>\n

T<\/strong>he base anticipation that precedes any journey to a new destination is always more vivid for me than the denouement that accompanies the physical descent to earth.\u00a0 With rare exception (perhaps Paris and maybe<\/em> Vegas), the image I conjure up in my two dimensional mind beforehand always seems to fall somewhat short of the real 3-D deal.\u00a0 On our first trip to Maui, for example,\u00a0 my notion of grass huts\u00a0 and Woody Wagons clamped with surfboards was quickly dashed the moment I spotted a Costco and<\/em> a\u00a0 Wal-Mart just steps from the arrival terminal. It was raining\u00a0 ukuleles that day and the lone, Port Authority hula dancer was, how shall I say… Samoan<\/em>? I was expecting something a bit more, I don’t know….svelte?<\/em>; like the subject of one of\u00a0 those Sailor Jerry tattoos<\/a> I threaten to get stenciled across my chest every 120\u00a0 lunar cycles or so—-pure 1950’s\u00a0 South Pacific paradise-of-the-mind stuff. I think we\u00a0 bought our own leis for 8 bucks each at the gift shop, rented a Taurus from Avis, and called it a day.<\/p>\n

And it’s not just Hawaii. The same holds true for Jamaica—or as I like to call it, The Bangladesh of the Caribbean<\/em>, with its human squalor, smelly ceviche,\u00a0 and over-abundance of\u00a0 muddy water. Even the Antiquarium in Boscoreale, Italy, beneath the shadows of a nearby looming housing project,\u00a0 is sequestered by a string of barbed wire and discarded heroin needles. Not that I don’t enjoy myself abroad, mind you. I’m an enthusiastic traveler, to be sure. The foreign landscapes that ultimately unfold just never fully mesh with the spatial images dancing around in my head before touch down.<\/p>\n

Alaska was pretty spot-on but to be honest, I wasn’t expecting\u00a0 too much from that particular latitude. <\/em>And while <\/em> I <\/em>did not <\/em>get a tattoo while docked in the port of\u00a0 Juneau,\u00a0 I was<\/em> presented with a\u00a0 shiny new Rolex Datejust<\/em> in our cruise ship cabin later that evening.\u00a0 Since I’m clearly never retiring from anywhere,\u00a0 my wife decided to give me my ceremonial timepiece a few decades early— for my 50th birthday.\u00a0 Just so you know, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The base anticipation that precedes any journey to a new destination is always more vivid for me than the denouement that accompanies the physical descent to earth.\u00a0 With rare exception (perhaps Paris and maybe Vegas), the image I conjure up in my two dimensional mind beforehand always seems to fall somewhat short of the real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-investment","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12190,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12190\/what-a-young-sailor-teaches-us-about-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":6494,"position":0},"title":"What a Young Sailor Teaches Us About Life","author":"Don Reedy, San Diego, CA","date":"June 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning I woke up to read this article on Abby Sunderland, a young sailor, who is attempting an around the world sail singlehandedly. 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