Even through a travel day from Hell on Saturday and a less-then-complete recovery day yesterday, I have a strong yearning to still be in Roatan...or anywhere tropical. Stronger than usual. I usually measure the success of a vacation (stay + travel) in terms of the "vacation high". This is the feeling you get, coming back to work relaxed and able to take things in (mostly) stress-free stride. Normally I am good if I can get a week, the first week of work, under my belt in a fairly calm and rational state of mind.
Lately however, the vacation high has continued to shorten in duration. I find myself less glad to be back home and more into the yearning to be gone again...somewhere. Relaxing, exploring, napping, photographing, etc. Anything but returning to the everyday drudge. I even mentioned to my wife that we certainly were capable of running a dive resort. The American couple that manage Coco View have been there for many years and have a blast! We allowed ourselves to dream this fantasy while watching the sunset Thursday night in the Caribbean breeze.
I fear this vacation high will not make it until Wednesday. Staffing issues I put on the back burner are now unavoidable. The decisions made while I was gone that need to be corrected or in some cases, finalized. Two full-day mind-numbing meetings this first week back. Three hundred emails to review and mostly discard. The grind has begun.
So yes, I yearn for the lapping waves, sunrise/sunset views, the watching of a crab or a bird for twenty solitude-filled minutes...just observing nature happening. Existing. It was a grand vacation!
And the first one in two years I have come back from with all my toes intact!
So there's something!
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You lost toes before?
Why not consider opening your own dive school?
You should do it! Run a resort, that is!!
Glad you're back safe and sound, Chuck - even if it is back to the grindstone! (not for we retired folks, though - Amsterdam and Haarlem next month, Prague and Vienna the month after that and then New England, Nova Scotia and Canada in September......sigh!);-p
Looking forward to your 'Z' post, though!
Chuck, I so understand. I love tropical islands and beaches. It's such a fantasy to dream of living there. Running a dive shop! Sounds like the perfect plan for you and your wife!!!
Mary Montague Sikes
Yea!! I hear that. If I don't get a vacation too I may just flip out!
Hugs!
Valerie
Alex: Last June in Belize I split the big toenail on my left foot open on the second day and my adventure in Fiji the year prior cost me toenails on the big and first toes of my right foot. Those have still not grown back right. My wife would be all for opening a dive school but she has not done enough instructing so far and the bank to start it is not quite there. Managing a dive resort however would be doable with my business background and her dive knowledge. Maybe in a few more years...
Johanna: If I do and need some legal help I'm coming to you!
Sue: Your list just gives me the traveling jones even more, enjoy all those glorious trips. My next one is the Philippines in November for Thanksgiving.
Monti: Thanks, it really does.
Valerie: I knew that feeling two weeks ago and will probably know it again too soon.
It's always hard to return. My husband & I often discuss retiring to Costa Rica & opening a bar at the beach.
I hope these beautiful holiday in the Caribbean have been very restorative. I'm looking forward to seeing these possible abstract photos which I speak. Greetings.
At least the great memories will never fade away. That would be awesome if you eventually opened a dive shop in a tropical place.
Nancy: That sounds like a grand idea. I have a friend who moved back home to CR and said I could come and visit him any time. May have to do that.
Leovi: Yes, restorative but now long enough.
Pat: Took lots of pictures so I have that and yes, a dive shop would be a wonderful way to spend the golden years!
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