So yea, it's been days. I'm not sure
what to say. The addiction got me.
I spent a few weeks San Cristobal de las Casas and after a few days being sick and letting myself go I was back to spending 90% of my waking hours on Reddit and the other 10% running around doing minor errands and trying to be social. I quickly started hating myself and devised an escape plan that involved buying a bicycle and doing the rest of my traveling on that. Mostly I needed an excuse to exercise and get outside. I couldn't find a decent bike shop in San Cristobal so I decided to start in Merida because I have friends there and there was an eye clinic that could do LASIK surgery for like like $800 which I decided I should do to get the most out of my traveling experience (highly recommend doing it outside the US where the health care is better and cheaper).
I spent nearly a month in Merida doing pretty much nothing except internetting. It was horrible. My excuse is that the bikeshop I ordered my frame from could not get the frame by the time they said they would, eventually I went with a less ideal frame the shop already had in stock, but I should have made that decision much earlier, like 1.5 weeks earlier, and anyway I have no excuse for completely wasting my down time. I could have made/finished so many blog posts and edited/posted so many pictures/videos that I have stockpiled or I could have done a little traveling and actually used my time, but no, reddit reddit reddit. I still don't know what's wrong with me, but I simply could not find the motivation to become productive.
I spent a few weeks San Cristobal de las Casas and after a few days being sick and letting myself go I was back to spending 90% of my waking hours on Reddit and the other 10% running around doing minor errands and trying to be social. I quickly started hating myself and devised an escape plan that involved buying a bicycle and doing the rest of my traveling on that. Mostly I needed an excuse to exercise and get outside. I couldn't find a decent bike shop in San Cristobal so I decided to start in Merida because I have friends there and there was an eye clinic that could do LASIK surgery for like like $800 which I decided I should do to get the most out of my traveling experience (highly recommend doing it outside the US where the health care is better and cheaper).
I spent nearly a month in Merida doing pretty much nothing except internetting. It was horrible. My excuse is that the bikeshop I ordered my frame from could not get the frame by the time they said they would, eventually I went with a less ideal frame the shop already had in stock, but I should have made that decision much earlier, like 1.5 weeks earlier, and anyway I have no excuse for completely wasting my down time. I could have made/finished so many blog posts and edited/posted so many pictures/videos that I have stockpiled or I could have done a little traveling and actually used my time, but no, reddit reddit reddit. I still don't know what's wrong with me, but I simply could not find the motivation to become productive.
I've been in the saddle 10 days now and
only now have mustered the courage/energy to start typing again. God
I hate how horrible my writing has become. Reading it makes me
cringe. Its so bland and thoughtless. It's like I don't give a shit
what I say. Well I don't. I'm just trying to create a habit. Write
write write.
When I was in San Cristobal I met some
girls who work at an NGO in Guatemala. They were attractive so I
drunkenly told them I would volunteer. All of the best decisions
I've made in life have been intoxicated so now I'm headed to
Panachel, Guatamala to work as a communications intern for Mayan
Families. I don't really know what they do, but it sounds much
different from anything I would be naturally inclined to do so I
think it will be good. I can certainly affort some penance for all my
recent indulgences.
The only thing is this bicycling thing
is taking a lot longer than I planned. I was actually supposed to be
there before I even left, such is the cohesion between my
self-perceived potential and my actual output. That was partly a
miscommunication, and partly me dragging my feet, but mostly just me
not knowing what the hell I'm doing. I planned to be able to take on
150km/day everyday with maybe 1 or 2 single day breaks along the way.
My average day is half that. So far my longest day has been 116k and
I stopped for 3 full nights in Tulum. I have rode nearly 40km in the
wrong direction and spent over 2 hours trying to get across 1 damned
border. And I haven't even had any real issues to deal with
yet.
Anyway, I'm exhausted and burnt to crisp and still have pack all my shit and sleep soon so I can get up and leave at 5am even though I have no idea where I'm going to stay tomorrow because this stupid fucking hotel that I paid .04272BTC for doesn't have working wifi and I couldn't get a Belize SIM card for my phone because the whole fucking country is closed on Sundays but I'm happy because I wrote this shitty fucking post and broke my dry streak :) It's going to be a great week.
Anyway, I'm exhausted and burnt to crisp and still have pack all my shit and sleep soon so I can get up and leave at 5am even though I have no idea where I'm going to stay tomorrow because this stupid fucking hotel that I paid .04272BTC for doesn't have working wifi and I couldn't get a Belize SIM card for my phone because the whole fucking country is closed on Sundays but I'm happy because I wrote this shitty fucking post and broke my dry streak :) It's going to be a great week.
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