Well...this is my last day staying at Maderas Beach, Nicaragua. Tomorrow I’m heading to Managua to do some shopping for the house...then one more night at a Managuan hotel...and I’m on a plane back to Houston. I can’t believe that it’s time to go home. I’ve been here for three weeks, and it feels like I’ve been here for 3 months.
Besides the first part of the trip...where we I spent a lot of time working on the house...this has been a true surfing vacation. Living the surf lifestyle, if only for a little bit.
I have to say...it sucks you in. Following the winds and tides...and planning your days accordingly. Waking up at dawn to beat the crowds...and having the ocean to yourself. Eating breakfast in record time, because your so hungry from the morning workout. Taking siestas in a hammock..only to wake up and go back to the ocean. To surf some more...or sit on the beach drinking beers and watching the locals tear the waves up. Always starting up new conversations with strangers...and meeting new and interesting people everyday. Or seeing the same faces over and over, and slowly making friends. Sitting at the dinner table for hours after dinner, talking about anything and everything. Telling yourself that your just going to have one rum & ginger, and then finding yourself playing horseshoes with headlamps at midnight, or going on a walk to the beach to go skinny dipping, or playing poker until 2 in the morning.
Then waking up at dawn...only to do it all over again.
Yep...I’m going to miss it. But the great...fantastic...amazing thing about it all...I have a home here. Which is a good thing, because I also feel like I have a family here too. This whole community here at Maderas...feels like a family, and I will look forward to the next time I come back here, to visit family, surf, eat great food, drink great rum, and most importantly....create more great experiences and life-long memories.
The icing on the cake of the whole thing though is.... this is also going to be a to a jumping off point for more travels around Central America. After you spend enough time here...and you have enough conversations with people that are traveling around the area, you realize that there is so much more to see. I spent the last couple of days reading the Lonely Planet Nicaragua book....and this country is packed with stuff to see. It’s so diverse, and so different from north to south, and east to west. And then there’s Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. In a few years...maybe I can afford to get a sailboat, and go up and down the coasts surfing empty breaks, and seeing everything from a different perspective.
Wow...I get more and more excited about having a place down here....it’s truly awesome.
Well it’s time to wrap it up...I’m going to go check out the house one last time...go surfing again, and then into town to watch the USA beat Finland in Olympic Hockey. If I can find the game...it will be the first time that I get to see any of the Olympics since being down here.
I might have some down time in Managua to update the blog one more time...but if I don’t...
....adios from Nicaragua!!
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