Cuba was amazing. It was a little disorienting to travel somewhere so different but be there and back so easily with the short direct flight from Ottawa. Travelling within the same time zone makes a huge difference in settling in when first there and readjusting when coming back.
Maybe because of this ease, it felt almost too normal to be there (crazy though the country is). I worried a few times that I wasn't being aware or appreciative enough of the travel, the bright hot sun in February, etc.
I was, however, very present while I was there. Maybe I didn't need to compare what I was experiencing to my usual experience in order to live it and to just be.
I am definitely grateful, though, to have the opportunity to take these breaks from work, to travel with such an amazing partner, to experience and sample and taste another place and another mode of being.
More to come. Replete with crazy stories and adventures.
You wrote 'very present', I read 'very pregnant.' Me tired.
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