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| 04.27.04 (3:33 pm) [edit] |
No gift shop. The woman who was running it a few times a week had company from the states and decided not to open - typical, but good, no money spent there.
While walking around and running into people I heard news, of course, so I went to check it out and it was true. A friend is leaving, who moved here a year ago who loved this place so much she bought a sailboat even though she never sailed in her life, but she says now how while nothing is particularly wrong, how no bad thing happened, it has become too small here for her. That is what happens if you go to happy hour every night with the same exact people, which I don't do (but I, having lived on islands, knew the road to insanity, she was just having a good time after 20 odd years of working for unions in the northern US).
She is going to drive around America and decide on a place to live (I suggested she check on the Outer Banks of the Carolinas), but I think mainly she wants to drive...and drive and drive, something impossible here. As one of the more sane people I know, I'll miss her, but that is the reason she is leaving, whether she knows it or not and I think she does.
Islands do that to people - if you are not careful, you can slide on slippery slopes and do it so slowly you think it is just the normal way of life, normal being the word to look out for since it is normal here to be quite abnormal. At least for the expats...the locals could probably be transplanted to someplace like a small town in the mountains of some southerly state in the US and fit right in...if they changed their language, skin tone and way of life.
While I sat talking with her, another friend showed up, having heard the rumor and coming to check it out. I was surprised more didn't arrive while we were there, but they were probably at the bar debating on the why's of the subject.
The guy who showed up is a complete gadget freak and has to travel far and wide to get what he needs to feed his habit, as the most technology to buy here is a blender. I told him about my vinegar thing and he told me about his trick stuff where I could write on the labels in my own handwriting and have it reproduced forever. As he put it "What is with this WRITING???" He was going to go to Germany to buy a piece of equipment for his diving, but decided to buy some new camera stuff instead. He's writing a book about this place, with fantastic pictures, and wants to buy an 800.00 tripod to take a panoramic picture of sunrise to sunset from the highest point on the island. I have no doubt it will be beautiful.
While we talked, her new puppy Sadie bit the hell out of my hand, all puppy wiggles and leaps. Sadie is going to America too. Good.
But I found out a really exciting thing, that there is a new ferry to a nearby island three times a week now that can get me there and back on the same day (time thing is always a problem here). I've been to this island and it has a GREAT gourmet store and some good restaurants, so it would be well worth a day trip at 5 bucks round trip for the ferry (not bad for a trip that takes over an hour). The old ferry was for workers and meant either spending the night or spending about six hours on ferries to spend about two hours on the island, so this is a big deal here. Woo hoo!!! So my friend and I will go over on Friday and I will try and flog my vinegars (IF the wax arrives and IF Nadine got the printer ink). Otherwise we'll just go because we can.
And the sun goes down, as usual. Consistancy, even if it's really strange, can be really comforting.
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posted by: pinkstar7790 (reply)
post date: 04.27.04 (3:51 pm)
alot of typing. alot to read.
posted by: caribemj (reply)
post date: 04.27.04 (3:54 pm)
I type fast;) Was that a complaint, a comment or a suggestion?
posted by: caribemj (reply)
post date: 04.27.04 (4:05 pm)
Yeah, after looking it over again, it IS a lot! Lesson learned, do not mix life and blogging in toto (though it could happen again tomorrow).
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