It’a hard to put it all into words. The adventure of being with your family, especially your young children, all of you on an odyssey of being in a foreign land, taking in the culture, the smells, the tastes, the phonetics of sound, etc. It’s like a cacophony of chaos that then fades away into the beauty of living in a real dream. We are fortunate we get to do the things we do. Travel the world. See it. Experience it. Though we are only seeing a sliver inside our peripheral, we can still soak it in, learn from it, and better ourselves to understanding the world.
Travel is for trying new things. We want to be comfortable of course on vacation - it’s time to relax and reflect - but at the same time we need to push it because we don’t know when we will be back. Each moment affects the next and the clock starts ticking from the moment you arrive. We try not to think about that, but rather be present, close our eyes, let the sun fall upon our face, breath it in, and let it out. The moments will come, they will unfold all around you. Sometimes you don’t even have to look, they are just there. Recognizing them though, well, thats the icing on the cake where it can carry you away into the breeze, flutter along like a butterfly until you put your feet back on the ground. Those, I think, are the special ones.
I think some of my favorite moments on the trip were being in the marina and down town. Those were the evenings where we had to push ourselves and go explore. It’s easy to stay put when the hotel has everything you need. But instead, we hit the streets, mixed with the people, road in cabs, bargained for trinkets, and surrounded ourself in the energy of a time and place. Restaurants at the end of cobblestone streets, singing mariachi bands with a vibrato and soul.
At the same time, we had the beauty of paradise always within reach. Literally the ocean at the end of our bed, the sound of crashing waves, to lull us to sleep each night, to then awake to the salty morning air recharged. We walked the beach, jumped waves, gave turtles to the sea, and never tried to let a moment slip by.
