{"id":4515,"date":"2017-02-28T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2017-02-28T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:42:09","slug":"viva-mexico-huatulco-mexico-02262017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4515","title":{"rendered":"Viva Mexico \u2013 Huatulco, Mexico \u2013 [02\/26\/2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I am forever a creature of habit. Whenever I come to Huatulco<\/span>, I come to the same place; I sit at the same table, in the same pink chair. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily on purpose; my feet just take me there. I\u2019m not sure when that started happening. When did I become comfortable enough in the world that I have \u201cregular\u201d haunts in places that once registered only vaguely as names on a map.<\/p>\n

I mean how did I \u2013 who was born and raised on an island that most residents never seem to leave \u2013 end up regularly sitting eating quesadillas and drinking corona on a beach in Mexico – \u00a0and getting paid for it<\/em>?<\/p>\n

I have\u2026a wonderfully weird existence.<\/p>\n

But I do like Mexico. It is so full of life everywhere , and colour. You never see colour like you see in Mexico anywhere else. The souvenir stalls are lined with crazily bright weavings and handmade creatures in all colours, some of which don\u2019t even look like they exist in nature.<\/p>\n

It is odd being here alone, the last few times I\u2019ve come to this port Amras has sat in the chair next to me. That said, there is a kind of poetry to being alone with your own thoughts. It gives you a chance to reset and catch up with yourself. A rare chance to observe the ever busy world around you (and wonder things like how the tales across from you could not know how to say \u2018thank you\u2019 in Spanish, and then wondering why you would ever wonder \u2013 or even notice \u2013 such a thing). I hate being lonely, but over the years I have learned to treasure my solitude, moreover, I have learned to appreciate the difference.<\/p>\n

No contract is easy, no ship is perfect, heck no job<\/em> anywhere is perfect. Perfection is a human concept that we both constantly strive for and constantly render unattainable. In truth, the days are always long, there is always one \u2018problem child\u2019 and things never go quite<\/em> as you intend (that\u2019s not a complaint really, it\u2019s just an observation, and part of what keeps life interesting).<\/p>\n

But for all that, there are still days like this, where the sun is warm, the waves are clear and the drinks are cold.<\/p>\n

And that, my friends, is more than enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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