Today I started thinking about the end of my "lifetrip", as I started calling it. That sounds a bit odd because it sounds like the end of my life. Maybe if I stop traveling it will feel like my life is stopping and I'm going back to enprisonment. Let's not be so negative, it's not my normal way of speach.
Let's call it the theoretical end of this lifechanging trip. Sounds much better.
My mind is shooting as a racketball in all different directions. I want to do and to see so many things, but I know that I am bound to time and budget. Especially the last one. I was couting on the selling of my car back home, that was my travel budget when I would leave Aruba. With that money I would pay all of my planetickets. The car didn't get sold so far. That places me in a less comfortable position. But let's not make a problem of something that isn't one. Think positive. Everything will work out just fine!
So, seeing the timeconstraint, I started to make a retroplanning. July back to work, beginning of June back home to still have some time to accomodate to Belgian life again.
Since 2 months I'm getting obsessed with yoga. I want to do it everyday, whenever and wherever I can. It calms my mind but challenges my body. It makes me feel better, period. So after hearing a few stories of people doing yoga for some time and after a while going on a yoga retreat or a yoga teacher training (not necessarily with the purpose of teaching, but just for the experience of intensive yoga practice), it got me thinking. Maybe thát would be a nice closing of this unbelievable year.
So I started skimming the internet for such thing. The world wide web is full of it! My challenge was to find one that seems high quality but still within my budget (BIG challenge!). Those who search, eventually will find! I found one in India, in the spiritual capital of the world (that's how they call the place): Rishkinesh (India).
I'll tell you more about this topic as soon as I enrolled for this training.
Before my month in India, I'd like to discover Thailand from north to south or the other way around. I've counted an entire month for that too. In Thailand I'd like to work on a project of some kind. I still have some research to do on 'workaway' to find something cool!
Pre-Thailand, I'm planning to go to Indonesia. Java and Bali or maybe only the latter, depending on price difference in transportation costs etc.
And then I have a gap of 1,5 months which I'm not planning to fill in right now, not even with a 'theoretical' plan. I want it to be empty and I will let destiny or coincidence decide where I'll end up. Maybe it sends me back to Aruba, who knows! ;)
As I was writing this post - or at least choosing the words in my head - I got distracted. I was actually enjoying a sunset dinner on the beach, while listeneing to the soothing tunes of the live band playing at the nearest hotel. Some noise pulled my out of my concentration. It sounded like a party on te beach, but it came out of nowhere. As soon as I lifted myself up and lenghtened my neck giraffewise, I realized that it was a wedding. *sigh*
Ok, Arubian beaches look like picture perfect and it would be a nice location for an intimate ceremony somewhere on a deserted beach, but having this on the beach in the backyard of the hotel, next to the pile of beach chairs, where drunk tourists shout and whistle to compliment you from the water.... That, I cannot understand. At first I felt bad for the couple having that much distraction around them, but after seeing what they have choosen for, well...I lost sympathy and actually started feeling sorry for myself that they interrupted my moment or my string of thoughts. I wonder how their honeymoon will look like. Probably as shallow as this scenery - sorry for my negativity, I'm not perfect.
--- next day
Bloody moon!
From the Arubian dunes, away from most light polution on the island, I could clearly see the moon turning darker and getting this orangy glow over its massive body. It never turned bloodred tough. Once it lost it's sparkle, for about one or two hours, you could almost look into space! I have never witnesses this amount of stars grouped together - I even saw a shooting star! If I would close my eyes halfway andlet my imagination run wild, I could picture myself out there far far away, where I could look down on the earth and see it from a viewpoint we can only dream of. The moon, stars and old jazz songs took me back in time for a minture there. Thinking of people on the other side of the earth, wondering if they are looking to the sky too and wondering the same about the people in their lives who they'd like to connect with (never mind the time difference, just be your spiritual you while you read this and forget about science).
And with that my friends, I end this "hovering" (I bet this is not an English expression, but I don't give a moon about that) story of mine and move from hammack to bed. Have a good night and don't let the bedbugs bit.
Hugs & Kisses ✌🏼️
Labels: Life, worldtrip
