A Knot Untied.

I'm nesting.  I just came from the best physical adventure I had in years.  It's always been a dream to travel to South America, I pined for this dream to come true. Last 2007, I named my first car Machu Picchu and I've started to buy stuff on learning Spanish -- I have no means of funding for the trip back then, even a year ago I have no idea how I could make it happen, I was significantly short on cash then as I was paying for mortgages on my house (still do!).  The classic I know where I need to be, I just don't know how to get there. 

But thoughts really become things. What I consistently envisioned, happened.   It got cemented last August when I booked the Machu Picchu trek for me and Nikki (my very good friend and travel buddy for life!) - this is the first purchase related to that trip, and then I knew, even before I bought plane tickets to South Am, it's going to happen. For realz.  How I got the funds to do it, it's a good conversation to tell over a cup of coffee or tea :).  

I just came back last late Thursday night. And now it feels so long ago but the memories are so sharp. I still laugh to myself whenever I recall our bloopers.  

I met a teenager on my flight back home from Rio to Miami, I was connecting via Lima.  Her name is Hannah and she was traveling to Peru with her good friend Manu.  It's their first time to travel without their parents, and internationally too.  They're literally jumping out of their seats when they told me about it.   They have an exciting itinerary, they will be going to Machu Picchu and also to the Lost City of the Incas and I think to Lake Titicaca.   Hannah was so giddy and asked me about tips.  I hesitated, but I give anyway.  I always will feel like a beginner at traveling.  

I asked her about the hippie bands/bracelets on her hand. She told me that it was from Bahia (a beautiful place in Brazil and short background: they live in Rio but they're German; their parents moved to Brazil some years ago), and that you make three wishes as you tie it three times in a Bahian way, and it can never be untied in your wrist.  Each knot will untie only when your wishes come true.  She told me two tied knots are left,  one has came true already. 

I think I know what it is. I smiled and we bade goodbye, my wish that they will make memories no matter what happens. And then I realized, it's not so much whether those knots will get untied, it's how many knots we make in our lives. I want to continue to dream big dreams, because I know for sure they will come true. 

Listening to: The Hand That Gives the Rose by Coles Whalen.

Comments

[Gigi]

Awww, so happy for you, Rosie! More details in your next posts please!

[Rose]

Thank you Gi! You know how I first know about Machu Picchu right? When you recommended Celestine Prophecy to me when we were in High School and I could never get it out of my mind eversince!

We enjoyed that book!

In a way you were a part of this trip! :)

[Gigi]

Oy, that was in college already! But thanks, Rosie :D