And the adventure continues
Today, we leave Aragam Bay, where we have been for the past 15 days, and head into the hills and slightly cooler weather.
We are ready for the change. I have loved the healthy routine of pre-dawn surf for two or more hours, coffee, breakfast, rest. Lunch, surf, rest, dinner.
But new landscapes call and the time is ripe.
This is the longest holiday I have had in decades, maybe even since I was at University. It is enough.
I am grateful for the opportunity and grateful for the increased appreciation I have for my home country and its freedoms and glorious infrastructure.
These freedoms and egalitarian infrastructure and social services are not something to be taken for granted. We must fight to maintain them every day.
When the middle class is hollowed out, when poverty increases, and when we neglect to provide our citizens with fabulous education and health care, we create the breeding ground for violence, corruption and crime. When we step over the first act of corruption, the first lie, the first deception, we seed the ground for more.
Healthy democracy is a participatory sport.
My time here has shaped me and given me different perspectives on many things. Many of these thoughts and emotions are still swirling, fragmented. With time they will reveal their truths.
For now, we pack out tuk-tuk and head to Ella.
Photo Taken August 27th 2024
