Man, it sucks to be back in Philly and at work. It is rainy and cold out. Not brutal winter cold, but the weather forecasted 65 degrees for today and that it is not.

It’s no coincidence that every time I spend a lot of time with Alexis, I experience some sort of epiphany. This time I’ve decided to forego the downgrade into the life of a student and struggle financially on the other hemisphere in search of furthering my professional education. Doing so would take me 2-3 years from my true goal, which is to buy land somewhere tropical and start building a dream compound for work and vacation and everything in between. I’ve also decided to sell the studio and buy a loft or one-bedroom to use as a home base. Oh, and a sailboat. Which I am finding to not be too expensive.

The plan: Work out this contract until May. Find a job that will let me work 80%-100% remotely, which shouldn’t be too hard? This summer, get certified in sailing (for boats larger than 22ft) and then just go surfing all summer. Also have a trip to Hawaii and a road trip in May and maybe a quick jaunt back to St. Croix.

So… the past week on the island started with the welcome wagon at the airport in Adrian’s truck with Alexis and Diego in the front, Lauren and I in the back with a gas can, and then later with Ty kind’ve laid up in the way back with his legs out the window…

It was saturday and Mardi Croix and we went to eat at north shore and drank rum that Ty made and fried salt fish in the back of Travis’s truck and danced for 4 hours or for a long time. The night was very fuzzy until we got to Lost Dog and played reggae on the juke box and danced more after drinking Mind Erasers and talking shit on some guy’s coconut water. Then Basil drove us to the farm after a quick night swim somewhere… Slept 4 in a bed in a cabin in the rainforest. Woke up to sounds of a mongoose being squeezed.

Sunday, terribly hungover, ate at Golden Rail and then kinda just sputtered around at night, went to rainbow, listened to music and found a dead mongoose (Jongoose) on the road to add to the collection.

Monday, lex went to work and Lauren and I hung out at the pool chillin until lex got back and we went to the beach for a bit then dropped Lauren off and drove around a bit. Then, of course we tried to smoke the joint from the other night and couldn’t find any source of fire. Effing ridiculous. Finally, at the One Love Service Station, I got the biggest lighter I could find.

Tuesday was Vakentine’s Day and I woke to dead gory angel pics from Adrian. Alexis ended up quitting her job that day and we went to Adrian’s gig at a beach resort and had an early night.

Wednesday the fun begins again! But that’ll be another post. Toodles! My iPhone wants to autocorrect toodles to roofless! Hah