Life is strange.  When I was planning this Caribbean trip to St. Lucia and Antigua & Barbuda, it seemed like an awful long way to go for such a short visit. 

And I was right, there was a lot of plane time, airport ‘no-time’ zoning out and all the rest of the Homeland Security mess that passes for travel these days.

BUT.

Once I arrived, the time stretched and morphed and the humidity slowed it all down somehow, so that now that I’m back home, it feels like I was gone a very long time and had a very satisfying journey.

Not bad for only being gone for a week 🙂 Maybe it’s just true that a change is as good as a rest.

I’m not sure, but I feel like I had a chance to find yet another world, a place where the jungly sounds of tree frogs and crickets reach epic proportions and where the heat is a presence that must be accounted for and contended with, as if it were a very real character all on its own.

As happy as I am to be back in my West Coast life, I realized that I could really get used to hanging out in that Caribbean world of steamy heat and intense colour for a lot longer.

I’d like to imagine living a life in this turquoise little house.  Not forever…just for a little while.

Instead, I’ll leave my computer now and go have another slice of pineapple, shake the sand out of my suitcase and maybe go for a walk on our beach. It’s not tropical and the rain isn’t warm, but if I throw on another layer and a rainjacket, I can pretend I’m still in that other world.