þÿ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-16" /> <title>Travels</title> <style type="text/css" media="screen"><!-- body { color: black; background-color: #b8b9d6; background-image: url(images/seakindance.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; margin-top: 12px; margin-left: 190px; border-top-style: hidden; border-top-width: 12px; border-left-style: hidden; } --></style> </head> <body bgcolor="silver" text="black" link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="red"> <p align="center"><strong><font size="6">Travels of Captain Andy</font></strong></p> <hr /> <p align="left"><font size="-1"> ...All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil...  <em>gandalf the grey.</em></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="-1">&quot;...travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness...&quot; mark twain</font></p> <hr /> <p align="center"></p> <p align="left">below are link to some of the places that have had a profound impression upon my soul and spirit. it will be updated as i can get to it. please <a href="mailto://webinquiry@seakin.com">mail me</a> if you have questions.</p> <p align="left"></p> <hr /> <hr /> <hr /> <p align="left"><img src="images/japanflg.gif" alt="" height="60" width="100" align="absmiddle" border="0" /> <font size="4"><strong><a href="/travels/japan/japan_default.html">Japan<a name="Anchor-64909" id="Anchor-64909"></a></a></strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="-1">a cultrally rich country with a nearly homogenous people. the food is fantastic, the people are warm and unbelievably polite and freindly. it can be expensive to visit, but well worth it if viewed as enlightenment and education as a human. this culture is one of extremes, ancient and modern, calm and energentic, natural and artificial... and this list is in no way exclusive. but perhaps what i think of as the most accurate and prevalent characteristic of japanese people, the nation, and even the natural world here, it is the principle of balance, experienced via extremes.</font></p> <hr /> <p align="left"><a href="/travels/spain/spain_default.html"><img src="images/balfl.jpg" alt="" height="60" width="100" align="absmiddle" border="0" /></a> <font size="4"><strong><a href="/localhost/travels/spain/spain_default.html">Spain / Balerian Islands<a name="Anchor-43582" id="Anchor-43582"></a></a></strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="-1">ahh the life of a medeteraian seafarer... what an amazing life. healthy clean air, simply the best food i have ever experienced, and a deep calm which will soak you in unimaginable antiquity. people have been here for years beyond count.</font></p> <hr /> <p align="left"><a href="/localhost/travels/panama/panama_default.html"><img src="images/panfl.gif" alt="" height="60" width="100" align="absmiddle" border="0" /></a><font size="4"><strong>Panama / San Blas Islands</strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="-1">for a little while longer, heaven remains. i made a slideshow about my time in the san blas. i don't want to say too much, because i am afraid it might inspire people to visit there. this last unspoiled place in the world deserves to be tread as lightly as possible. i can't imagine the sorrow of knowing tour buses filled with fat german and american tourists cloging the dirt roads and putting their litter everywhere. this place is already going south from too much tourism, but for just a short time remaining, heaven indeed does remain. i am a changed person in thought and attitude from visting here.</font></p> <hr /> <p align="left"><a href="/home/seakin/travels/bahamas/baha_defalut.html"><img src="images/bahafl.jpg" alt="" height="60" width="100" align="absmiddle" border="0" /></a><font size="4"><strong>Bahamas</strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="-1">i have spent more time in this neighborhood of the world than any other part of my life... except for my childhood in southeastern ohio. i love the water of the bahamas, the climate, the people, and of course my kin in the ocean. this is where i truly found my kinship with the sea. it is also where i met many of the women i have loved in this life. i am currently married to one of them. mermaids are sprinkled everywhere in this sureal dreamscape.</font></p> <hr /> <p align="left"><a href="/localhost/travels/usa_default.html"><img src="images/ustafl.jpg" alt="" height="60" width="100" align="absmiddle" border="0" /></a><font size="4"><strong>USA</strong></font></p> <ul> <li><strong><font size="3">Ohio</font></strong></li> <li><strong><font size="3">Florida</font></strong></li> <li><strong><font size="3">I-75 corridor</font></strong></li> <li><strong><font size="3">I-77 corridor</font></strong></li> <li><strong><font size="3">I-95 corridor</font></strong></li> <li><strong><font size="3">I-80/90 corridor</font></strong></li> </ul> </body> </html>