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different kind of trip report: Day 428
I have been quite distracted for a while… but thought it would be fun to check back in…
so here are some random thoughts…good to get them off my mind I guess…a bit of a therapeutic exercise of sorts…
i have always been a big fan of small towns…my wife grew up in one as well in Louisville, Colorado…Golden, Colorado is a very cool small town…so is Morrison, Colorado and so we tend to gravitate to small towns…
i have been to some very cool small towns in the US, mexico and the UK, but la isla is the coolest small town I have run across…seems as though I catch myself several times a day and wonder to myself (or outloud) 'how did I get here?'…why am I so blessed that I get to be here?
to wit…there is a guy down the street that works outside all day everyday....i don't even know his name…and I'll bet I have gone past him a couple hundred times…maybe even more than that…and each time he looks up and smiles and waves…even in Golden, I didn't have any neighbors do that so many times…
i sometimes wonder…is there another place on the planet that has a dump with a million dollar view? Ok… i know it's a holding station for trash or something like that…I don't really care what you call it, I call it a dump…but holy cow that trash has a great view doesn't it? Who thought to themselves…hmmmm….i want our trash to have a tremendous view, so I think we should put a dump right on the Caribbean…some day that dump will have million dollar homes on it, you watch…
i have a taco stand close by me that will make me 2 empanadas and 2 tostadas and they charge me only 34 pesos…I have to give them a 50% tip each time and give them 50 pesos for several reasons: 1) it is an amazing plate of food with the nuclear picante they give you that will burn your face off, b) if i wasn't married already, as long as that lady can keep making empanadas like that, I would marry her on the spot, iii) they're just so smiley down there sometimes, I can't help it…I'll bet I've eaten there a hundred times…and will eat there a hundred more in the next year…by the way, that is cheaper to buy than we could ever make at home…not even close…
have you ever seen a full moon rise over the Caribbean? It is crazy how cool that is…one of those things you cannot take a picture of as it will never do it justice…I have never planned it, it just happens and hits me like a ton of bricks….wow….
can anyone explain to me how mayan decendents ended up as catholics? One of those things that makes me scratch my head and wonder while I sit in church sweating like a pig…
ever seen one of the really short mayan ladies in church that is so short, when they stand up from the pew, they get shorter? Makes me smile…and it makes me smile when they go out of their way to make sure to shake my hand during church too…gotta love 'em…
although I have chronicled previously the benfits the island provides in the reduction in pain due to fibromyalgia, I can't help myself from paying a bit of respect to la isla for the wonderful, life changing aspects of living a less stressful life in a tropical climate…I tip my hat to the island of women for that incredible gift…thank you doesn't seem to justify my gratefulness, but for now, I want to say thank you…
looking out on the caribe side, I'll bet I have watched a million waves break…you know that trance it puts you in, right? just day dreaming and letting my mind wander and watching a hundred in a row…until I begin to drool a bit and it snaps me back to earth…some of the waves have been impressive during the summer storms, while at other times they just lap up to the beach so harmlessly and softly it will put me to sleep…or at least make me drool…
i'll bet I have seen hundreds of breathtaking sunsets…and sometimes wonder if I have seen the best one yet or is the best yet to come…it is an on going case-study…I guess I'll have to find out what the sunset is gonna be like again tonight…
something happened 2 years ago I hope someone can tell me what it is…I know several of gringos here with the same story…they just sold everything in a fire sale back in the US and came down here with very few possessions, and have not regretted it one bit…I'd like to know, cause it was about a year and a half ago, I recall sitting at chichi's with my wife while we were on a Christmas vacation and told her I didn't wanna leave….well she said something like 'I don't wanna leave either hun, I don't like leaving here', but I told her this time was different…it is time to find a way to stay so we don't have to leave anymore….i hated leaving the island when vacations were over…I sure feel blessed that I don't have to endure that pain anymore…
if you have ever read the Celestine prophecy, then you might recall an interesting concept of energy derived from physical places…there seems to be an unending stream of good vibes coming from so many cool places…it just energizes me and so many others while here…good-for-the-soul kind of energy…I think you all know what I mean…you have felt it too…it is all around us, all the time…just pay attention and it will soak in…maybe you don't even need to pay attention…it just effects you no matter what…
i have had many revelations in my short time here, but one continues to come to me…in waves if you will…it is simple for sure, but all I know is this: I wanna be HERE…I wanna live here and if I die here, you're not gonna hear my complaining…probably 'cause I'll be dead…but maybe it's because it is where I needed to be…
i hope to see ya soon in paradise…
Disfruta la vida
Jimbo
p.s. in case (as usual) i have offended some of you ("hey jimbo, how can you call it a dump? that is so insensitive...please be more polically correct when referring to our future home...it is a recycle-challenged collection facility...i am deeply offended as my uncle works there...") then so be it...but in the grand scheme of things, it really does not matter what either one of us has to say, it matters what we do...
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