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- Feb 27, 2024, 12:18am
- 🌙 23 °C
- Altitude: 18 m
- Dominican RepublicProvincia de Santo DomingoMancha NuevaLas Américas International Airport18°25’48” N 69°40’35” W
Adios Costa Rica!
February 27 in Dominican Republic ⋅ 🌙 23 °C
I have problems fleshing out in writing my thoughts. No such problem when they're jangling around inside my head, but it's harder bottling that lighting onto something physical.
I'll give it a go, but forgive me if I bail partway through, mid-thought, tiring of the effort to sound interesting, or even perhaps, if the stars align just right, passable literary.
I wrote much of this in a Walmart (yes Walmart!), the rest at the airport in Santo Domingo awaiting my connecting flight back to Toronto. Walmart is evil, and the world would be a better place without them. But they exist, and travellers can be useful when you have a lot of time you need to kill without anyone bothering you. Plus, you can get cheap food and drink, sometimes free stuff (coffee in this case), use the bathroom, etc. So...using it for good instead of evil 🙃
I'm feeling anxious, not sure why, maybe because something big is ending. I usually get this feeling when a big event or experience is coming to an end. I'm ready and happy it's ending, and am very excited to be heading home to Gi, to family, to my Toronto friends, to Toronto, to Canada, to my home routine, to eating well, to eating more variety, to playing music, to meditating, to yoga, to biking, to maybe getting my motorcycle back on the road. But anxious I still am. Maybe it's something inside me that knows instinctively that I've knocked another few weeks off the Big timer, the Main countdown clock, closer to the end, yada, yada, yada. Most likely, I'm just talking out my ass here, and I have no idea. Anyway, it is what it is, and it's just part of me.
It has been a wonderful ride, the past six weeks travelling in Costa Rica and Guatemala. A few hiccups here and there but mostly fantastic. Barring some sort of catastrophe or disaster, I don't know how anyone can not have a good time while travelling. It's like sex, even when it's not great, it's still sex, and pretty damn enjoyable.
I will miss the warm air, the zephers, the sounds of the jungle, the beaches, the oceans, friendly locals, happy travellers, jungle hikes, tropical showers, Lake Atitlan boat rides to get from one town to another, finding a good cup of coffee in each new town, practising my Spanish, wandering aimlessly, and much more.
I will not miss the sound of dogs barking at night, extremely pricey food and drink almost everywhere in Costa Rica, complaining tourists, lack o poutine...
Thank you to...all the friendly Ticos and Guatemaltecos I met. Mike, Beth, Rowen, the extended time we spent travelling together was really special. Flora, it was too short but we all had such a blast in Dominical. Miakel, Pierre and Simona, you are wonderful, generous hosts and such beautiful souls. Carlos and Rosa, you have a beautiful home in Grecia and I wish you much peace and happiness.
Pura Vida Mai!
And as always, Mama I'm Coming Home
https://youtu.be/K0siYUjV9UM?si=UAKRG1-o2Ym-FmUM
p.s. I didn't bail!Read more