Mar Adentro, Mar Adentro

Well what can I say other than tonight is a rather meloncoly. We had a fantastic day today and yet tomorrow morning Amber and I begin our long day of flights home; Quito to Miami to Dallas to Seattle to Spokane. Its hard to know that such an exciting trip has come to an end but I know that we have enjoyed it throughally. I know how lucky I have been to share this trip with such a great friend. I'm not sure I would have made it nine weeks with anyone other than Amber. (We've decided the EXTREME closeness must stop when we get back home...no more bathroom talk for sure!!)

Over the last nine weeks, my heart has soared to new heights. I love traveling and that my friends and family call me a 'world travelor'. I can only begin to think where my next adventure in life will take me. What I will be able to experience and all the new places I will see.

While we were at Machu Picchu, we saw a 70-year-old lady fall on the steps in front of us. As others scrambled to help get her to her feet, a woman next to us said "can you believe the 90 year old women in our tour group? Shouldn't they just be dead already??!"

This world travelor vows never to be the latter, but the 90-year-old woman who is conquering new feats through every stage of life.

As we journey home tomorrow, I think it will be difficult for both of us, but this journey has been a long, yet great one. Today I have thought a lot about one of my favorite poems (below)which speaks of a journey inside ourselves to experience those things which we know not of.

Until the States,
Katie



MAR ADENTRO

Mar adentro, mar adentro,
y en la ingravidez del fondo
donde se cumplen los sueños,
se juntan dos voluntades
para cumplir un deseo.
Un beso enciende la vida
con un relámpago y un trueno,
y en una metamorfosis mi cuerpo
no es ya mi cuerpo;
es como penetrar al centro, del universo:
el abrazo más pueril,
y el más puro de los besos,
hasta vernos reducidos en un único deseo:
tu mirada y mi mirada
como un eco repitiendo, sin palabras:
más adentro, más adentro,
hasta el más allá del todo
por la sangre y por los huesos.
Pero me despierto siempre
y siempre quiero estar muerto
para seguir con mi boca
enredada en tus cabellos