Ah, Arambol
I've been in Arambol, Goa, for a week now, and feel like I can finally write a little bit about it. I've had so many conversations about how it takes at least that long to really feel like you're really here. Last year Zev laughed about watching various friends arrive from New York, and how it took so many days for them to settle down, lose that "where are we going now what do we do next" feeling. I think I'm starting to let it go.
My first three nights I spent in a guesthouse, like a small hotel. On the third day I met a German girl, Bea, who had a sweet hut on the beach, in the 2 Pac encampment. Everything here has a name; 2 Pac is in between Green Garden, Orange Sky, and Blue Pyramid (no, they're not all color-based). So I moved into hut life, where I've been enjoying the company of some great neighbors.
Monday morning I started the Ashtanga yoga class that I loved so much last year, been going every day from 9-11am. It's kicking my ass but in a good way, and the teacher remembered me, which is nice. Afterward I usually have my favorite breakfast in town (fruit muesli curd honey) before walking back 15 minutes down the beach to my hut. By the time I get back the heat of the day has set in, so I walk 50 feet from my front porch and swim in the ocean for a bit. It may be psychosomatic, but I feel like soaking in the sea helps with the extremely sore muscles I'm experiencing.
I must say a word on my language; I can tell that my English is already going to shit, as it tends to do when I travel. Talking to so many people from other places I tend to simplify things, drop articles, stuff like that. So it probably seeps into my writing too, but I don't mind so much.
Anyway, I'm settling into a nice little routine, yoga > breakfast > beach > writing > sunset > dinner. Lots of hanging out in cafes, sipping chai, staring at the sea. Somehow a whole week goes by, doing what seems like nothing much.
The theme of this place seems to be, for me, "maybe tomorrow." It took three days just to get myself to work on photos and upload them to my photolog, though it doesn't help that the internet doesn't work very well, when it works at all. Anyway, I finally got my first batch posted, check them out!
