Little did I know when I arrived in Pipa more than 2 months ago. I didn’t know I
would extend my stay over and over again, nor did I have an idea of the amount
of wonderful people I was about to meet.
Friendship
Unnecessary to explain to people that travel how connections of any
kind don’t need a long time to leave an everlasting smile tattooed onto your
heart. Luckily mine is big enough for all the friends I already had the luck to find, plus all the new ones coming and yet to come.
A single 1½ hour breakfast conversation with unfortunately just briefly met, but wonderful people, to daily updates with ‘long’ term ones that stay a little longer and who become your everything for the hours, days or weeks
you spend together. This town made me get to know and learn from so many new
friends from all over the world, that it was a big deal to eventually leave.
Pipa Paradise
The daily shot of dolphin fun didn't help moving on either.
Pipa's nature is an absolute winner. Regardless of being one of the main
tourist attractions of the Northeast, people, nature and animals seem to live quite
peacefully together.
Sea turtles, frogs, chameleons, butterflies, centipedes, giant
snails, hummingbirds (that are cutely translated into ‘flower kissers’ in Portuguese),
cuddly stray cats and dogs and many others show up at your door step. The dolphins literally
swim around you while you're for a wave, baby turtles run as fast as they can to get to the ocean for their first dip and when you walk around with an open vision, at least one more thing will take your breath away. Every day again.
The energy that circles around the cliffs of Praia do Amor, the cotton candy skies and ever changing ocean, the beaches on a sunny or cloudy day, during a thrilling
sunset or with a surreal full moon hovering above them. The temperature that belongs to a place close to the
equator comes with a wonderful breeze most of the time and… with not too many
mosquitos, life gets pretty close to perfect.
Freedom
I’m pinching myself all the time to realize I am actually living
a life I was dreaming of before. About 6 months later, I still find it
hard to believe that this now is 'real life'. Always doubted how to get this
work & travel lifestyle in practice and although there’s still lots of room
for improvement (mainly on the work section): here we are. Doing it and could
not be any happier about taking that leap!
Free of make-up, a tight schedule and that sometimes somewhat overwhelming
society in the Wild Wild West. Not so much of a daily routine and way less unnecessary
worries. The universe knows exactly where I am to teach me some life lessons,
but all of them are easier to deal with in this ‘here and now’. The sun kissing my
face, the sand giving my feet a natural scrub, the sea at a stone's throw away and the wind
playing with my hair... It’s great to live & learn like this. Letting some things be and to letting a few other things go.
To not be too over-the-top-happy-camper-cheesy-annoying-zen, I won't say ‘Amen’.
Just doe-doei!
