We were sitting on a beach one day (like everyday) and we got to talking about how much our life has changed, even in such a short amount of time. We have grown accustom to such a different way of living and we are loving every minute of it. We thought we would share......
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| a perfect day |
- constant dirty feet - the dirt somehow manages to become a part of your skin, it does not wash off
- wearing dirty clothes - lift, smell, make a decision
- laundry day is exciting - no need for the lift and smell portion of your day
- dogs everywhere - they are all so sweet and need homes, its hard not to adopt one
- watching where you step - snakes (yep, this happened), spiders, sharp everything, dog crap etc
- new bugs - we know that they are just going to get bigger and weirder as we go
- smelly bathrooms - they are unavoidable
- mosquito bites - we hope they're mosquito bites
- army ants - found at any garbage can leading a hundred feet away
- dust and sand - in your ears, in your food, in your bed, imagine it - it gets there
- uneven sidewalks - our calf muscles are doing well and so is our balance
- flip flops - flip flops equals happiness
- joys of a good hot shower - we've stayed extra days when we have found this
- drinkable water - always easy to get but we can appreciate water out of a tap now
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| offroading to the beach |
- food everywhere all the time - whether it be a guy with a tray or baked goods out of a pickup truck
- music - musicians everywhere - the beach, street corners, outside your door
- topes (speed bumps) - nasty, random things, big, small no rhyme or reason to them - they just appear
- amazing fruit and vegetables - fresh and tasty, often we don't know what we're eating
- spicy foods - take a bite and hope its okay (hot dog with unexpected habanero peppers)
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| she told me to flip something in the kitchen |
- spanish - we are proficient at talking to two year olds (okay, maybe not)
- visual overload - we can walk down the same street ten times and always see something new
- constantly being surprised - tigers in cages driving ahead of us on the road, etc etc etc
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| on the hunt for internet - why are we at the beach looking at the ocean |
In the past fifty days we have had ear aches, sun blisters, endless itchy mosquito bites, sunburns. We have peeled, been pile drived into a sandbar while bodyboarding (guess who), and have had sand rash. We would not change a thing. Even when things go wrong everything else is still so right. Everyday is new and memorable - and we have only just begun.
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| even Anna weighs in on the route |
