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The Beginning
The Beginning
I am a 25 year old, southern Gent. I've been bothered by the fact that I've not traveled the world or even left the country, sans a trip to Cancun when I was in High School, but that was so muddled with tequila and strip clubs (sorry mom), that It doesn't REALLY count- that I have decided to take a adventure across the globe with the love of my life.
All I needed was a motivator, I needed someone to push me to travel and tell me, "Now's the time to do this, and we should totally do it". She came, she said those magic words and now we've got our bags packed, watching the calendar.
I had intentions on moving to New York City with my girlfriend. We are both really big into music and both have a spot in our hearts for the city. The opportunity escaped us after having our hopes deflated by the freaky rent prices there. We kind of ditched the New York idea immediately following a trip there and the mention of Thailand.
We had always tossed around the idea of traveling together. I knew I wanted to travel with her. The first place she mentioned was Thailand, and after 20 minutes on Craigslist, checking out places and prices, we were sold (prob not the best way to chose where you want to spend your life, but that's just how it happened, and this is my story). Thailand it was.
So here we are 6 months later, a ticket for Bangkok dated August 4th in our hands. When people ask us how long we will be in Thailand, we say "Indefinitely". We are ready for a life change, something that might coax us into never coming back.
I have been dreaming of the sand and the crystal beaches since we mentioned the move, I have also had nightmares of being locked up and having to deal with a girlfriend who has been kidnapped by some crazy python handler, but those are just dreams.
The truth is, I have never been so excited and nervous at the same time for anything in my life. Right, now as I sit on my couch in South Knoxville looking out the window at the homemade bird feeders we made, on a hot Sunday afternoon, it blows my mind to think that in a little under two months, I might be laying in the sand with the tide riding up my mini bathing suit, with some concoction of a random Thai's design to sip in one hand, watching long-tailed boats float over the horizon, holding the love of my life in the other.
I expect to be shocked, excited, impressed, disappointed, lost, scared, found, happy, comfortable, uncomfortable, drunk, frightened, enlightened, ready to come home, ready to stay forever- all at different times on this journey.
But one thing that will never change will be when I am an old man, maybe back in South Knoxville, sitting on my porch in a rocking chair with my old wife, widdling some crazy little thing old men on porches widdle, I will be able to look over to my wife and ask, "Remember that time we went into that local bar in Thailand and we saw that Thai Prostitute perform that "Ping-Pong show?" I am glad we shared that moment together."
And she will say, "Brock that's disgusting" and then smile a little bit.
_Brock
WOW! Just beautiful! I liked the music match up too-perfect!
ReplyDeleteMommyH
So you and maris and a Thai midget are responsible for UFO sightings in southeast asia. Well, thats just great. Hope you are happy scaring the natives. Maris is better than brock at lanterns. Brocks lantern was weak, while maris's lantern was strong like bull. MommyH was right, the music does match up beautiful. I didn't even know brock liked music or had a knack for knowing the right time to kick off a juicy beat or crunchy jam. anywho, I have to get back to my morning exercises consisting of 1000 repetitions of squat thrusts and lunges. I love you wild and krazy kids and miss you and want to hold you. Thats why god gave me 2 arms, so i can hold both of you at the same time. Have your people call my people and we will have lunch. Lets meet half way, to be fair. How does Darfur sound? or maybe a coastal town off Somalia, you guys could take a boat from thailand which would be romantic. Let me know what works for you. . . And because we know the tide flows different ways, may it flow yours with generosity and compassion, bringing smiles and bearing gifts of warmth and comfort...( i think this is going to be on my application for Hallmark)
ReplyDelete_R. Vincent Truka, aka Mr. Wonderful
i love you so much roberto. you will love to hear that I am writing a novel. you are in it. your name is eric. get in touch. you are poetic. i am at a bar, deal with it.
ReplyDeletemuch love
_brock
Brock,
ReplyDeleteAll things happen for a reason. Maybe the good lord is giving you this time to write that novel. I'll be first in line to buy it!
presale starts today. 5 Easy payments of 599.99 will get you a copy before anyone else on the planet! ;)
ReplyDelete_Brock
Watching you guys with those lanterns inspired me. So i knocked off work one day to make some kites...maybe my kite and you lantern will meet up somewhere in that big blue sky......
ReplyDeleteLove,
Scott Rose
P.S. Rob has been slacking on his 1,000 repetition workout.