ok so here it is. yes its about a month late. but this has been a jammed packed month despite still being out of work. and i typed this blog up on the train ride home on my cell phone. and had issues transferring it so now im just going to retype it here. so while its late, its even more sad its the last blog from our adventure down in the keys. ok here it goes.
-Coming back to the "Real World"-
so that's all folks. our time in the keys is now over. it was to short and ever so sweet. i wouldn't even know where to start on describing the summer we had. for one its hard to describe the summer t everyone, one might not be as impressed as i or we were with everything the keys has to offer. but i beg to differ that we are heading back to the "real world" I have found there is nothing more real than the florida keys. yeah the economy down there is based majority on the business derived from tourism so maybe at first glace it seems like another tourist trap... but none the less it is one of the realist places I've ever been. the so called real world people tell us we are home to is nothing but a rat race with a few things actually "real". everyone at home has their head up their ass or head in the clouds. now this doesn't mean there aren't those people in the keys because yes there are some of those people. a simple trip to walmart will demonstrate this. but i feel that is more from the non english speaking people. they seem to have their own way of doing things. and while this is nothing other than shitty and annoying a simple day in the water or a few casts with a rod and reel will make you forget about them. for me life has never been more real than when i was living in the keys.
-so you're not catching my drift or getting my flow?? how about this? how about sunsets that are made up of so many colors that it would even be hard to paint a picture let alone take it all in in person what's real is feeding a 5 or 6ft tarpon by hand. no night out at the movies could ever compare to feeding the tarpon. no matter how great the CGI or how 3-d it is. Besides movies are fake and expensive anyway. taking your fresh catch out to dinner for a hook and cook, that's real. to eat fresh fish you caught; well for me it doesn't get any more real. to look in the water from above or by snorkeling and seeing how the complex ecosystems that lie just under the surface operate, that's real. at times it seems the only realness at home is work we dont want to be doing or some kind of construction taking place. yeah sure, there is construction in the keys but even that i will tell you is real. the building of condominiums across from Robbie's, that's real. and no not cause you can touch it, but more for what it encompass's even just the amazing sunsets that will be viewed from these condos and the wildlife that swims, glides, climbs, or flies out the back prove to make it real. the condos are going up across from Robbie's where if you take a walk across the street you can feed the amazing tarpon, go out fishing, grab a damn good bite to eat and socialize with some of the coolest people i've ever met. yeah some people you encounter will come off as rude but now i think it's cause they don't want outsiders coming in to spoil the paradise that makes up their "real world"
-while living in the keys i for the first time had lizards running around in my backyard. not to mention iguanas. those for which after they shed are made up from the most beautiful colors or green you will ever see. we had birds, hermit crabs, fish, and mantatees (those of which we did not see :(. the fish were amazing from mino type fish that are really cool green color, pin fish, needle fish, tarpons, and sharks.... yes sharks. i mean sharks people, do you get anymore real that seeing 5ft sharks swimming just below your toes. or when swimming and snorkeling realizing your in the sharks world and maybe for the first time ever your start to feel your not quite at the top of the food chain (ask Dani how this feels)! and lastly when you meet people such as the one mate tony, a true local who makes you feel privileged and welcomes you into the world within this paradise. that's when the realness of the keys starts to hit you. for instance when you tell tony your leaving to go back home and you see and feel the deflation within him. Where he repeats out loud to himself more than a few times, "bro your going home, your leaving??? @$%*", that's when you know you have something truly real. fairly quite the opposite of home where you feel leaving just helps to lower the companies payroll. and instead of deflation you get a sense of relief when you tell your boss your leaving.
-so were coming home to the real world you say..... na i beg to differ. in fact im riding on the train taking me rurther away from what "real" truly is. to another world that without some minor details (friends, family, inlaws, new apt, and occasional friday night dinners at the grill) i would rather have not be there. this all is what i consider real. Dani might have a different feeling towards what or where real is. but even for her, she was let into the world within paradise so im sure she could tell you a real thing to two.
-that's all for now folks, but god willing it surly won't be the last you hear of us and our time in the keys!
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