Namaste!
I had written a post yesterday imploring people to drop out of life and travel. I have been having such a great time, I wanted everyone to experience the same joy. I posted without re-reading it, and thought nothing of it. Mira, however, was a bit perturbed at the post, as it was in generlly bad form to taunt people with unrealisitic ideas. If people want to travel, they will travel! They don’t need my hounding. She was right.
Immediately after posting that piece of poo, bad things a started to happen. We were kicked out of our hotel in favor of a large tour group. Curiously, though, people were checking in as we were being told this. We then spent the better part of the day trying to find a suitable landing spot in our little area, and were forced to settle on a pretty dingy establishment. Cost = $5 per day. We quickly came to the realization that we weren’t going to be able to spend a week there, and had to hoof it 30 minutes to another part of town to find something halfway decent. To top it off, right as we were leaving with all of our stuff to re-walk the 30 minutes, it started to rain. This was pretty curious, as we had not seen any weather but bright sunshine in the previous 5 weeks. We paid our penance by sloshing through mud and poop puddles, in the dark, in the rain, with all of our gear.
I deleted the offensive post on the way. Since then, we have settled comfortably into our new hotel, and the sun has returned. Coincidence?????? Lesson learned!
The Junky's Wife said
That was fun to read, and I like how you were honest about re-reading your own writing. Good, clear self-reflection is so rare. Thanks for encouraging me to look at my own life!
And I am horribly jealous of your travels, sloshing through poop puddles or not.