Travel Archives - Ocean Palmer

The Downside of Being Confined: Reduced Travel

September 2, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

If you want to learn, travel. If you want to learn a lot, travel to a foreign country. If you want to learn a lot about yourself, travel alone to a foreign country where you do not speak the language. As the world searches for its “new normal” in the aftershocks of the pandemic, an […]

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The Easy Thing vs. The Right Thing

July 30, 2018 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

“The easy thing and the right thing are not always the same thing.” — Ocean Palmer A client recently thanked me for a good week of work by sending me on a weekend trip to a top-rated safari camp in western Kenya’s sprawling Masai Mara preserve. From the time our bush plane touched down until […]

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Reading While Traveling

January 5, 2015 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I was recently asked by my friend Peter Fritz to contribute a short sidebar for a magazine article he was writing about travel. Peter asked me what I read when I’m en route from A to B. In 300 words, here’s what I said: Travel Time: What I Read on a Trip by Ocean Palmer […]

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12 Reasons to Love Visiting the United Kingdom

March 4, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I recently revisited the United Kingdom for a couple weeks of facilitating sales classes and sidebar movie meetings in London and Manchester. As I do with every visit, when I wasn’t working I was exploring. I am a poster child for the African proverb that says if you want to move swiftly—travel alone. Doing so […]

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The Magic of New Zealand

December 16, 2013 by Ocean Palmer 3 Comments

I recently returned from three weeks of work and play in New Zealand. This was my fifth trip to and from this distant land half a world away, which means I’ve now flown 80,000 miles through the years in a silver tube five miles up doing nothing more than coming and going. But every mile […]

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Why Greece is in Trouble & What We Need to Learn

February 21, 2012 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I just returned from Athens, Greece. I went over to coach financial services business executives. As usual when I work abroad, every trip is a life chapter unto itself. The timing of this one guaranteed that one the moment I stepped off the plane. Greece remains in the midst of a series of dramatic showdown […]

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Real Stuff vs. Invisible Stuff

March 14, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I just got back from a trip to Jacksonville, Florida and Hilton Head, South Carolina. I was in Florida for meetings about a consulting job and movie financing but Hilton Head was more important; I drove there from Florida to help my daughter Gracie pass the final two days of spring break since her sorority […]

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“It’s Not a Business, It’s A Club”

February 13, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I think the reason Los Angeles is on the left coast and New York is on the right is because they are too different to be any closer. LA is Ali, New York Joe Frazier. Chicago is the referee in the middle. I was in Los Angeles for 24 hours and movie talks. The action […]

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One Million Miles: My Favorite Places

February 9, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Gladness and sadness, weddings and funerals, business meetings and baseball tournaments. Fishing trips and horse farms. Cons, thieves, murders, and rip-offs. Airport security and insecurity. Flight attendants, lousy food hot and cold, organized crime, currency exchanges, and slovenly dressed, poorly behaved travelers who do not travel well. Welcome to my world, the world of the […]

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