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Suddenly I Feel Alive Again

Posted on 09/02/2020 by margrad80

I make no bones about it folks. I have been really out of sorts for the past 153 days, since I got stopped in Texas on my way to Mexico. The Airbnbs I have lived in during that time have been nice, and in different times I am sure I would have enjoyed myself immensely. COVID-19 makes even the nicest places unattractive.

I have been pretty down about not being able to travel. I am not comfortable going outside for walks in a country where the wearing of masks has become a political kickball. I have been lucky that a friend who has to get out and go to work anyway has been doing my grocery shopping.

My friend was dropping off some food today, when he began telling me about several of his work colleagues who have been traveling back and forth to Mexico, without any trouble. I realized that I really wanted to be back in Guanajuato where I lived several months before. I also realized that I wouldn’t feel any less safe worrying about Covid19 in Mexico than I was worrying about everything in the USA.

I got in touch with my former landlady in Mexico, and found that she had a very small apartment to rent in one of my favorite parts of Guanajuato. I talked to my landlord here and arranged to leave next month. Now the flight is booked, I have placed a down payment on the apartment in Mexico, and have booked an apartment with my current landlord for next year when I will need to come back to the US.

I am excited for the first time in a long time. Granted I am returning to a place I know, but the times are making it part of my big adventure. Who knows, by the time I leave the US next year, Europe might be opened back up.

I have been up to my eyeballs in a video game for the last six months. I kept playing with the idea of doing some posts about the game. Every time I tried to sit down to write, I found myself swiping away my writing app, and doom scrolling. I might get around to writing about the game someday. Who knows?

I am so excited, thinking about all the things I need to do to get back on the road, that I couldn’t sit down two play a video game to save my life. It is just driving me crazy that I too hyped up to work on anything but a short blog post. I think I am going to have to fall back on my old standby of reading someone else’s novel while drinking a cocktail.

I am hoping once I am back in Mexico, I can get back to writing a novel. I don’t say my novel, because I have been using “my” to indicate the novel I have been working on for a two years. I really seem to be having far too much trouble finishing. It is written, but needs some heavy editing, that just leaves me cold. I think I should shelve it and work on one that I have outlined and is calling to me.

I am looking forward to writing some posts about the nuts and bolts of flying in Covid19 times.

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4 thoughts on “Suddenly I Feel Alive Again”

  1. Annette says:
    09/02/2020 at 9:19 pm

    I cannot tell you how happy I am for you and everyone else that has the good fortune and opportunity to leave this godforsaken place. I wish I could do it. Alas, I have a child to get through the challenges of school in this new, challenging world. I am keeping her home and have set up my office for her internet studies. I am doing the best I can.

    When I came home in May (after an extended voyage due to COVID), I didn’t own a gun. Now I won’t tell you how many gun safes are in this home or what is inside them. I wasn’t prepared then, but I am now.

    If I could legally leave this country with my child, I wouldn’t look back.

    Austin has defunded police 150 million $$$ starting with 20 million $$$ immediately. Guess which programs were cut? Organized crime division. Narcotics division. Drunk driving division. I hear human trafficking may be on the chopping block.

    If I were you, I wouldn’t return. At least not for a long, long time. There are so many better places out there to be anywhere on the other side of US borders.

    I’m glad you are leaving the depression called USA behind you. I imagine it’s just like when they told me the best view of CMA was in the rear view mirror. I was going so fast out of that hell hole, I forgot to look back. Godspeed, my friend. Don’t look back.

    I wish you all the best. As always.

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    1. margrad80 says:
      09/03/2020 at 11:58 am

      I have to say, I have never regretted my choice not to have children. Had I ever had any regrets they would be gone now. There is a reason children and grand children are called hostages to fate. I feel for you. I know you would take your child to a place of safety if you could. This is the first time in a very long time where I have felt afraid of travel, but I am no more afraid of what awaits me in Mexico, than I am of going shopping in a mask in Houston.

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  2. Marian says:
    09/03/2020 at 9:10 pm

    Good to hear from you and glad you have something to look forward to and are brave enough to DO it! Yep. This country sucks right now. Godspeed

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  3. Lucas Wheeler says:
    09/04/2020 at 7:38 pm

    Guanajuato🤔 That’s the place the incredible diorama museum. The one where everybody’s a skeleton. I love 🥰 that blog post … but can’t seem to find it again😡😳. Aloha ‘oe and happy trails to you Sam🙏🌈🤙.

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