Ever want to walk away from everything and live on a little beach in a shack where all the problems of the world cant touch you? Well I got a taste of that in South Goa this week. Let me tell you, its intoxicating and very hard to come back to reality. We had no Internet, no air-conditioning (it wasnt needed because of the brilliantly refreshing ocean breeze) and the best damn fresh seafood you have ever tasted for less than $3. We spent Thursday on the beach shores of the Indian Ocean where the water was literally so warm it felt like a bath. The waves were so beautiful and just big enough to go over your head and playfully push you back to shore. There was an alcove that created a lagoon that went in and out with the tide. If you sat in the water, the current would literally pull you one way or the other. The local dogs would come into the water with you and swim from one side to the next. When we overlooked the ocean, we could see dolphins breaching. In a moment of whimsy, we decided to go on a little hike in our flip-flops and bathing suits. We ended up climbing up the mountain side to a yoga retreat where the beds were literally platforms tied to tree trunks with little mattresses laying on top. We walked over a plateau to the edge of the mountain and sat on a cliff overlooking the vast Indian Ocean, wild green jungles and clear, pristine empty beaches and meditated through sunset. I swear the Sun itself turned to a rich papaya color, then coral, tara cotta, and at the end a smokey violet before dissolving into the haze of sunset where you couldnt tell the sea from the sky. I felt so small and so powerful, so fortunate to share that with Jason, Anuradhika and Rahul Sen, but the experience was all my own as it was theirs. Then we climbed down the mountainside (might have been a scenic route, might have been because Rahul had no idea where we were going) and went swimming in a lagoon that was full phosphorescence. Every time we moved the water was full of glitter that just floated over our hands and feet and filled the water with green glowing starlight. And then the night took off and damn, what a crazy party!!! There was no ac, no wifi, no pollution, and they were installing the single road in the village (where the villagers hand-crushed rocks into a fine gravel, carried the gravel in buckets on their heads and then used a watering canister filled with liquid tar to set the gravel into a solid pavement) when we arrived. Talk about leaving it all behind. I would do it again in an instant. If anybody is interested, the temporary huts that are set up for tourist season are beautiful and cost less than $5 a day and the food is amazing. Who knew paradise was practically free in South Goa? I wish I could share that with all of you, but this post will have to suffice for now. All our love, Jacob, Jason and Rad
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 03:07:06 +0000
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