Escape

After Lizzie passed, I disconnected f/reality for a while (5 months) & then returned. During that interim, I was lucky (& grateful) to teach for the shop all summer - it was exactly what I needed. With surf lessons now winding down, I'm wondering how to spend the upcoming fall/winter.

My traditional routine was to work some shitty job & hunker down here for a long, cold 6-month hermitage.

Not an option this time.

So what do I feel like doing? Traveling, surfing, exploring my path, expanding my horizons beyond Cape Cod. Shit, anything but another winter alone in this dark, bleak-ass ghost town of a place. Don't get me wrong - I love my family/friends here & treasure their proximity/camaraderie.

I just need a break f/the whole scene.

For the first time in years, I'm ready to do something completely spontaneous. I want to go somewhere warm, but not hot. Somewhere I can subsist comfortably. Somewhere offering path-related learning opportunities galore. Somewhere with a sense of renewal thru nature. Somewhere not here.

BTW, last winter's FL trip didn't count. Two weeks of playing nursemaid to my ailing aunt in Melbourne was no vacation.

First step? Choose where. Second step? Take steps towards doing it - small, manageable ones. My initial goal is to be gone the whole month of February. Four straight weeks of someplace else in the dead of winter.

That's not too much to ask.

Suggestions on a destination, anyone?

Let me know...