Cazitudes

22.11.12

I just got back.  Already, my mind is drifting to where I want to go next. 

{Which is practically everywhere.}

Iceland, Ireland, Portugal, Argentina, Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Bali, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Panama, Puerto Rico, Spain, Morocco, the Southwest USofA, India, the Rockies in Canada... and more.

It's like a fever I can't shake.  Nor do I want to.  Paint me a vagabond; I'd love that moniker, truly.

7 countries down.  Several hundred to go...

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Cats are funny.  Xena was mad at me all of 15 minutes.  Now I can't shake her.  Wonk refused to be in the same room for almost two days - he's still not sure he's forgiven me.  Gotta love 'em.

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Life of Pi - must arrange to see it this weekend! So looking forward to it...

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Hopefully, energy to recount travel stories from last week.  Too tired to push out much more than inanities right now.

21.11.12

It wasn't the brightest idea to book a trip to the plant facility in Windsor today.

11 hours of travel out from the lower half of the globe, from another time zone, to home and then getting up the next morning and traveling to the southern end of Ontario and back really was a thoughtless bit of planning... nothing like spending 8 hours in a car to and fro first day back from an out-of-country vacation.

I like to keep things complicated, see.

I. am. tired. 

Content but tired.

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I have stories.  Some to tell; some to keep.

Soon be told; ever be kept.

20.11.12

Fare thee well, dear Island...

19.11.12

One final sunset on these Caribbean shores, for this visit.  For this visit.

I've fallen in love with this Island, truly.  I now understand why people keep coming back time and again...

18.11.12

So it's been an interesting day today.  Bus adventures and boardwalks, in all quite good fun.

Conversations were even more fun... From Rasputin's member to Galileo's finger to Einstein's brain to relationships to religion to erotica to what a true partnership needs, we covered the terrain at breakneck speed.

I have to say that I have some of the most thoughtful, respectful, intelligent and mature friends - who know how to be downright silly in finest form at times, hurray! - and they make my life all the richer for their presence.

Today, we had rest for the soul as much as the body.  And it was good.  Even if I didn't get my banana kebab...

17.11.12

What a fantastic day we had today!  It was hot and difficult and rewarding and amazing and beautiful and scenic and completely satisfying.

We all completed the 6_mile hike through the Bajan jungle and coastline and interior... We got a full body workout and got to see a good deal of Barbados that tourists don't get to see.  I love that... Coming to a country and seeing its reality.  Awesome stuff.

Tonight it's to the St Lawrence Gap for food, music, and a whole lotta fun!   Saturday night's alright, alright... Saturday night's alright!

16.11.12

Okay, so I just spent 20 minutes laboriously typing out a post on this playbook (one finger typing on a touch screen, what a pain) and the damn post disappeared - after I saved it.

Long-short:

I remain in pain, have likly torn a ligament.

I can get around, though, with careful stepping.

I did a walkabout in Bridgetown today without too much wincing.

I *will* be doing the hike tomorrow, will just be walking a little slower than normal.

I did not fly halfway around the world to sit on my ass and do nothing... So I won't be!

A stubborn Lee?  Why, yes.  Yes, indeed.  Indubitably, yes.  That's me.  I will grin and bear it and I will like it, ha!

It's all good, really.

Life is good in the sun and sand....

15.11.12

You, know... You've gotta love the 'Net.  One can be halfway around the world and still keep in touch, virtual time, with everyone in their life.

You know...you'vegotta hate the 'Net.  One can be halfway around the world and still keep in touch, virtual time, with everyone in their life.

Mostly, it's good, I think.

I've wiped out for the second time in two weeks and this time I blew out my knee.  Way to go, me!  I have a 6-mile hike in two days, through jungle!  

Ah, well... It all adds to the flavour of adventure.

Today, we did a catamaran cruise up the West coast of the Island --- beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.  Swam with turtles, had a Bajan buffet, watched Susan kiss a stranger (yeah! One bucket list item fulfilled!!) and crashed on the boat deck and wrecked my right knee.  All in a good day's adventure.

Despite my current pain, the day has been brilliant.  Deets when I'm home on native shores.

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And here I was worried I'd blow NaBloPoMo this week.  Okay, ice and nap and hopefully a knee that won't make me yelp in pain anymore when I walk.

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I am beginning to think my eyesight needs reviewed.  Or I am chronically clumsy.  Or like my father, always in a hurry to get somewhere.  Need to adopt Island time perpetually in my life, I think...

14.11.12

Lazy, lovely day today, beachside.  Read, swam, napped.  Jon ended up on a mini adventure on his own... Went squid hunting with some locals.  For serious.

I have many pics already... But no computer to upload the pics.  Am on my handy dandy playbook which I just discovered takes pictures.  Imagine that.

So.  A pic of the spot where I had my very lazy day.  I love this place...

13.11.12

It never ceases to amaze me the people that life has conspired to bring into my life... It is especially awesome when one is catapulted out of one's everyday world into a place where personal integrities and vulnerable truths are shared with a kind reverie and familiar understanding, with an ease and care that can only be revealed over a glass of wine under the stars.

Awesome, that.

Oh, and singing frogs are cool, too...