Welcome to the Rockies**

Beginning of month in Colorado..

I have to say, this travel bug doesn't seem to ever go away.  The last day of my trip to El Salvador.. was with a friend bathing in the Pacific with its healing water and magic black volcanic sand and met a gentleman who lived up in the mountains... has this farm, grows everything his family needs; his spirit was almost illuminating his physical body and we got to talking about the planets, the universe, and our very existence.  I walked away in awe and under the instruction to continue my reading to a very simple yet powerful book by Richard Bach- Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

I just finished the book.  Am taking flight, with the will and knowledge that everything will not only be ok, but amazing, that I am only at the beginning of my life's novel, and this feeling in itself is exciting. So begins another chapter.


Flew to CO late one Monday night, left the concrete jungle and woke to this:

The cabin is tucked away in the canyons, I can hear the river rushing over the rocks 24/7...the air is cleaner, the water actually tastes good, and yes there are stars.  Thank God.

But the weather is crazy..

Day 2

 Snow day in early September, this place is another one Mother Nature's masterpieces- and she is exciting.

I quit my job today

September 4 2014

I walked out of my job today.

At this point I am excited, its time for change.  Some people believe that we all just need to settle down. To that I say- not all those who wander are lost.

My next 2 months will be an adventure.

Colorado for the next month, then  to El Salvador for October.  I heart migrating and soaking up as much brilliant life as I can.  Last month I spent a few days in El Salvador and the energy illuminating  from that place is magnetic.  It's too difficult to even put into words. 

Must always have the most positive attitude.  Positive energy is what it's about, energy moves us and creates brilliance.

Short adventure to El Salvador

This place is Never- Never Land.  There are mermaids in the surf and fairies that glow all around you in the evening.  The black sand glistens like magic and the stars glow so bright you would swear its spray painted in the sky...

This post is brief- mainly a few cool shots, the trip was only 5 days long but thank God the days in this magnetic country seem to last longer- allowing you to feel like you are in a different galaxy where time is obsolete. 

(note this is a experience in person country thus these pics barely scratch the justice surface)

 

Visiting Cali

Cali has been cool...

It's like another world from Florida, yet almost the same.  The roses grow like weeds here, there are lemon trees everywhere- almost begging you to make fresh lemonade...I've got to see a lot these past few weeks...Huntington Beach was the first place I really went...the sunset was stellar..

Did the tourist-y thing and went to downtown LA, took the subway to Universal, Hollywood, and all over...

 

Took a Saturday morning and went up to San Gabriel Canyon and did a river clean up, which was amazing...

Went to Venice Beach with the dogs and spent a day...so far my favorite spot- it was EXACTLY like what you see in television ;)

En route to Venice Beach we drove through downtown LA, saw Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive, drove over Santa Monica BLVD, took Sunset all the way to the ocean, the drove was crazy cool...Saw the Santa Monica Pier (most all of these pics are on Facebook it was easier for me to upload them quickly that way), and took the Pacific Coast HWY to Venice.

So...with less than a week in counting now is crunch time.  Overall consensus of California: Beautiful, stunning, not too inflated price-wise, friendly people, a lot to do, and soo much more to explore that I know I will be back again and again.

Day trip to the Waterfall, El Tunco

*excerpt from my journal

Yesterday was amazing. It was Thursday. Ok so the early morning blew but once I jumped in the bed of the pickup truck stocked full of people headed to the waterfalls, I was good.  The ride was about 30-40 minutes, but who cares when the wind is in your face and everyone is laughing squished up with people from countries around the world.

The hike was down the mountain (meaning the way back was going to be brutal)...we got to the falls, which were stacked as in-you jump in one and swim to the other then jump into that one, and so on.When you get to the highest one...either you jump or you watch (its scary high).  I jumped.  T'was completely worth is...you have to actually scoot out to this rock ledge, covered in green slippery algae all the while you and the ledge are covered by gushing water, and then jump- you have to jump directly into the waterfall (not sure why but its like important)...my feet actually touched which is scary.  There is video floating around of this I need to find it.  Everyone hiked down further to other falls, down crazy trails where you are slipping and falling no matter your experience level.

Needless to say I am pretty sore at this moment, the hike uphill was indeed brutal- did a lot of bear like crawling, lol.  Our group went and had $.50 rice pupusas at a local woman's house after.  There were puppies and a lovely garden in her house with orange trees and a large picnic table.  We played with the puppies and knocked down oranges from the tree to eat on until our pupusas.  An amazing ending to the day :)

Not so much a life on the fast track..

I found this journal entry from I believe the 2nd week of living in El Tunco. 
*Excerpt from journal

-At 28 I thought I would be on the fast track...job...getting married...owning a home...instead I am living in a bungalow in a small beach town in El Salvador which barely is visible on google maps, getting totally excited about a hand made bookcase from my cuidador and using cinder blocks and scrap wood as my nightstand, having fresh ginger in my camomile tea each morning, snacking on cantaloupe and watermelon smoothies daily, getting lost in a book for hours on end, still taking Boston to sunsets, eating dinner outside under a sea of glittery stars, falling asleep to the sounds of owls, and then waking up to roosters...life is crazy, sometimes unexpected, and someone once said, "Life happens when you're busy making plans. (John Lennon)

Ah the move to El Salvador

*all excerpts from my journal

8/1/2013
Living in playa El Tunco now, decided to move Boston and myself here...its a long story.  Arrived here this past Sunday and the travel wasn't fun, to say the least...here is a recap:

28/12/2013

last sunset and dinner in SJDS

-My plane from Florida to Nica was cancelled (found this out at the ticket counter,) so Spirit Airlines put me in a hotel- which I found out to be overbooked once I arrived, luckily I had a good friend in the area to house me for the night.  Flew out Friday and arrived to San Juan del Sur @230 in the afternoon.  (Stayed the night and attempted to sleep knowing that I was to catch the 5am bus to Managua.)

29/12/2013
-I got up at 315 thinking it was 415 because of my Android being still set to Florida time...no wonder there were still people getting food at Taco Spot as I strolled by with my 'one man band.'  A British guy offered me hot tea, and I took him up on the offer being that it was 330 am and from his porch was a direct view of the bus corner....


-I am sitting on the corner with Boston, my Quicksilver book bag, and my suitcase = my whole life.  The British man who gave me tea is traveling from Alaska to South America on a motorbike- he said I had b*lls, but all I feel is anxiety and stress about today and all the traveling.
-Just got to Managua and dropped off my suitcase with Ticabus (for safe travel- which is a whole other story altogether), and got to the main bus terminal.
-815am, at the bus stop/market in Managua in line with Boston and my bag for the bus to Chinandega, Nicaragua.  Not too bad so far, for less than $5 I got a taxi to take me from a bus stop to the Ticabus stop, and then to the bus terminal.
-It is probably @ 1230, we made it by van, not a bus to Chinandega (2.5 hours), then took another van to La Frontiera (the border) at some town I can't remember nor pronounce.  Walked through immigration and had to pay $2, went across a long bridge,...now waiting for a bus to take us from here (Honduras border) to the El Salvador border, which I believe is called Amatillo (all I know is that its known to be a crazy border).

-741pm, laying on a bed with Boston after sharing pupusas that were so so.  We are in a town in El Salvador called San Miguel (NEVER STAY IN SAN MIGUEL).  Today and the last few days have been utterly exhausting...Ok- so picking up where I left off- from the border of Honduras we took another squished-with-people-van to the border of El Salvador ($6, 3 hours.)  Poor Boston, it has been an extremely hot travel day and I can tell he is overheated and miserable :( Got to the border and we had to exit the country and then cross another creepy bridge, then enter El Salvador. Realized we missed the last bus to San Salvador so... had no other choice but to take a chicken bus to a town called San Miguel.  Paid $15 for room at a place around the corner from the bus terminal....will never stay in the town again.  The plan is to fall asleep and get up @315am to catch the 4am bus...Boston and I should sleep well after a day like today and with belly's full of pupusas.

30/12/2013
-Caught the 4am bus to San Salvador.  Got a cabbie to take us to the Ticabus stop (to pick up my suitcase) and then to El Tunco for $30...fell asleep almost instantly and then we were there. Whew.

To be honest, moving to Nicaragua was easier for me.

Destination: El Tunco, El Salvador