It's taken me awhile to sit down write again - or should I say type. I used to fancy myself a travel writer about a decade or so ago - man that feels like another life. Time is such a dynamic animal - goes by fast, dredingly slow, and everything in between. I find myself, once again, out of the States.
Currently in the chill, relaxed city town of Mazatlan in Mexico. I feel like I'm in Cabo San Lucas, but before it got stupid popular and turned into another mini America in Mexico (like Cancun). I don't say this with any hatred, actually I don't hate much besides unjust murder and hurting others, but rather as a fact. I just heard yesterday from an Uber driver how in Cabo they are now charging people in USD. What? Wow, talk about wiping out a country's mark on one of its cities.
Long winded intro, perdon. So why are you reading this now? Who knows? I don't. But regardless (and not 'irregardless' because that doesn't exist), I am in my mid 40s and living a life that most US people don't ever fathom of. I work online for my company, play as much tennis as I can, love the seafood here in Mazatlan but not as much as their hometown beer Pacifico, feel like my Spanish has and is getting to a very respectable level nowadays, and generally try to not worry about anything. I mean why?
So much shit is going on in our world. And some bad stuff. People cheating. Governments lying to their citizens and the world (I think COVID was a means for pharmaceutical companies etc to make money among other insiders - however I am not going to talk your ear off about it, I don't care enough to and welcome your ideas). Democrats and Republicans identifying themselves as such, before claiming to be "American" (definitely I feel that something like a civil war of sorts could be happening in my lifetime). What will any of this matter in 100 years? 1000 years? Damn this is depressing me right now as I clarify my views. OK I will stop that.
Well, I have been focused on making money, then protecting my money with investments etc, for the past 5 years I would say. And in the past 3 years experienced my first taste of making some fairly good money and not even thinking about a 'budget'. But now I am in a space where I want more. I feel a void. Tennis has helped out immensely for exercise and a brain break focus. Before in my younger years, travel consumed me - the foods, the people, the languages, the sounds smells, the ways of being, etc. I loved it and felt 'full'. Now I don't feel that. And yes, I have made some mistakes, perhaps more than others, or it least it feels that way.
OK, that is enough for now. If you are still reading (and again, why?), then please understand I am not a dark person, just a bit jaded in ways like everyone is in their respective angles. I'm excited to have made a life here in Mazatlan, look forward to being here for some time more, then probably off to Paraguay to get another residency status. So bear with me, it will be more entertaining.
PS. I should figure out your name, at some point.
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