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I'm sitting here alone at the most popular bar in Trinidad, Cuba. Usually there is a good 10-person line-up waiting to get into this hopping spot. It’s Sunday at about 6:00pm and I have tucked myself into a corner while Jim takes advantage of the 'golden hour’ lighting for photography. I’m pretending I am Hemmingway (lookatpg139)as I sip on my delicious daiquiri and write. I pretend I am in a medieval pub (not that Hemmingway was from medieval times) with wooden benches and tables, clay cups and wrought iron chains, handcuffs and tools hanging from the walls. This is sweet.
I am imagining what it would be like to travel by myself. It’s not too bad being alone for a day or an afternoon knowing that Jim will return. But to go away for a month and find a balance between making new friends and being alone, I think would become tiresome. Over the years of our travels, we have engaged with many a solo traveller, both male and female who appear to be content albeit lonely. Others, mostly women, have paired up with a fellow solo female traveller. In 1985, when Jim and I went to opposite ends of Nepal to trek for a month, I eventually found two Australian women who had not previously known each other. They welcomed me into their fold and we trekked for a week and spent a second week exploring Pokhara and Kathmandu. In retrospect, it was a time of great learning and transformation for me. Perhaps I need to get out more…
With that thought in mind, on another day when Jim was hiking I was doing chores including our banking. As I waited in line to get in the bank, perplexed at why some folks barged through the queue and we let into the bank while others were told to keep waiting, I asked two British women at the front of the line-up how it worked. They had been in line for 1.5 hours and hadn’t any idea what was going on. After getting our money, my new friends and I promptly ‘found a pub for a beer’ – a seemingly sound British tradition.
Trinidad is a town that is captured in time with buildings of ????, art and a whack of tourists.
Tourists!
I am imagining what it would be like to travel by myself. It’s not too bad being alone for a day or an afternoon knowing that Jim will return. But to go away for a month and find a balance between making new friends and being alone, I think would become tiresome. Over the years of our travels, we have engaged with many a solo traveller, both male and female who appear to be content albeit lonely. Others, mostly women, have paired up with a fellow solo female traveller. In 1985, when Jim and I went to opposite ends of Nepal to trek for a month, I eventually found two Australian women who had not previously known each other. They welcomed me into their fold and we trekked for a week and spent a second week exploring Pokhara and Kathmandu. In retrospect, it was a time of great learning and transformation for me. Perhaps I need to get out more…
With that thought in mind, on another day when Jim was hiking I was doing chores including our banking. As I waited in line to get in the bank, perplexed at why some folks barged through the queue and we let into the bank while others were told to keep waiting, I asked two British women at the front of the line-up how it worked. They had been in line for 1.5 hours and hadn’t any idea what was going on. After getting our money, my new friends and I promptly ‘found a pub for a beer’ – a seemingly sound British tradition.
Trinidad is a town that is captured in time with buildings of ????, art and a whack of tourists.
Tourists!
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