So I'm here. The adventure has officially begun. I'm actually using a laptop in Oaxaca to write this... from my hotel room. Today has started out as a rough day and I technically haven't done anything yet.
My flights were pretty easy yesterday, not a whole lot of getting lost in airports or losing luggage or problems with customs or any of that stuff that usually happens. I have good luck that way sometimes.
Got in around 9:15 which was a little later than planned but my friend Sina was there at the airport waiting for me. It was nice to see a smiling face on the other side of the glass doors that separate the passengers from the people waiting for them. I made it through customs pretty easy too.
After the airport Sina drove me back to Coffee Beans (the cafe he owns) and we hung out there and I got to see some of my other friends and have some beers and it was nice. I finally got to the hotel and checked in around 2:30 or 3 am (oops). It's a very very nice place. Here I am trying to be this middle class financially humble American writer girl and i feel like I'm staying at the freaking Ritz or something. It's the kind of place that without the strings that were pulled having been pulled I could never in a million years afford.
But so far it's nice. I'll plug it just a touch. La Casa de Cid Del Leon in Oaxaca, google it.
Anywhoooo... Fancy pants hotel room here with all kinds of crazy trinkets and things, I will take pictures at some point and I may not post this entry until later (if I post it now the pictures will come later). There's a jacuzzi tub, and a mini fridge (that's my kitchen... a mini fridge in a closet), there,s a TV, a bed...other things... but it's fancy!
I went to bed right when I got in last night after spending a little while trying to find a wireless connection so I could pop online to tell everyone I didn't die in a firey plane crash or anything.
Although at one point during my flight last night I had an amazing moment. We were coming into our descent over Oaxaca I assume, and we were so up in the clouds that there was nothing in sight, no lights, no stars, no moon just pure blackness. I had been crying a bit moments before out of a mixture of anxiety and excitement, longing and loss, basically tears of confusion. I had been describing this move as taking a leap into the black unknown. That's what it felt like for me, jumping into an unknown that's so unknown it's impossible to see any of the potential outcomes and so it's just blackness. So here I was in this airplane flying through the great black unknown and it was like someone dropped the curtain and all of a sudden there were these spots below me where someone had thrown a sheet over a string of Christmas lights. They were spread out just far enough so you had no idea what lie in between them but close enough that you could almost make out each individual light. It was beautiful. simply beautiful.
When I finally gave up on the Internet last night I fell asleep pretty fast. Comfy beds here, I however woke up sweating to death and I'm not entirely sure why. There are little doors here that seem to look out onto little mini patio type things. However, I have yet to figure out how these doors open. I spent the better part of 15 minutes messing with it until I felt like I almost broke it and quickly decided that maybe I should just leave it alone.
Apparently doors here are just for decoration.
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