So here I am relaxing in a hammock on the dock, watching the sunset, using wifi, and kickin with my SCUBA crew and prefectly content after graduating from a "Scuba baby" to PADI Open-water certified today, Yay! This will have to be a short blog cause my friends are harassing me to come play with them and we are having a pig-fry tonight at our dive school, which also doubles as the coolest palce on the islands, I f*cking love it here. We are back in a inlet, so there are mangroves, cranes and plants all around us, we have an awesome cabana complete with airconditioning, a TV (although we never watch it), hammocks and a beautiful smoking balcony that looks out onto the water. There is also a huge open deck where everyone chills right by all the diving gear. Honestly I cannot think of a better set up for a dive school, or better people here. Our dive instructor is this awesome French-Canadian guy with a mohawk named "Biscuit" who is trying to entice us to stay here... forever, ha ha he totally loves our crew: "Team Crevice"! Not going to let on to what it reffers, but I am traveling with a stellar crew right now: Pete (my friend from Pomona), Dave (Pete's friend he used to lead backpacking trips with), and Megan (this totally rad girl they met in Xela) and together we are unstoppable and quite halarious. Lynne is now part of the crew as well, but unfortunately we willhave to break up soon, Dave has to get back to the States to shear Alpaccas and Megan has to get back to evaporating water on oil sites, a job she works six months of the year and makes $60,000 so she can travel the other six months. The transient lifestyle is quite interesting to me, and soooo tempting. Its so easy to work six months of the year and travel the rest, and there is so much world to see. I might just be hooked. Megan and me are talking about traveling together to Nepal, SE Asia, and New Zealand next fall and winter... ha ha but who knows I change my mind so often, fickle me.
I have been thinking a lot about what I want in life though, what I want to achieve and what I want to see and honestly I think this quote from Carlos Castenada sums it up best:
"For me there is only traveling on the paths that have a heart, on any path that may have a heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel- looking, looking breathlessly."
There is no better way to describe how I am feeling now; this path that I am travling has heart, it feels right to me. I feel as if I am learning new things and challenging myself and my paradigms daily. Sightlines and Environmental Consulting felt wrong to me; it had no heart and I will never travel a path without heart again. Life is too short for that, there is so much good living to be had. I vow to never be without heart again. Hopefully here I can volunteer and maybe find a vocaiton with heart, like medicine, who knows. All I know is that I am so blessed and lucky to be here in this hammock, with such great friends and a wide open future.
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