Barbados-Infinity Again
Foreign Land / Barbados
You Are Here Travel With Me
Infinity pools, double espresso, traveller’s enthusiasm, and the dangerous possibility of overdosing on satisfaction.
A heavenly stretch of tropical beauty at the Hilton Barbados.
Four infinity pools in seven days makes one weak.
Or perhaps stronger. It depends on whether you measure the week in laps, photographs, espressos, or moments of complete satisfaction.
The Asymmetric Equation
Double Espresso + Exotic Location + Traveller’s Enthusiasm = Maximum Voltage The energy was real. The chemistry was mostly coffee.Hold Infinity
A World in a Grain of Sand
The Barbados landscape made William Blake feel less like poetry and more like a field instruction.
To see a world in a grain of sand, heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
There are places where that line becomes easier to believe. Barbados was one of them.
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Four Infinity Pools in Seven Days
One week, several vanishing edges, and a horizon that kept refusing to end.
“To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower…”William Blake · Auguries of Innocence
What Are You On?
I Don’t Do Drugs. I Am Drugs.
The question kept arriving. The answer became part bicycle, part espresso, and part traveller’s enthusiasm.
When people ask, “Do you do drugs?” or “What are you on?” the first answer is simple: I am on my bike.
Furthermore: “I don’t do drugs—I am drugs.”
I am so amped up, but it is nothing more than a double espresso and some traveller’s enthusiasm.
There are some days when I think I am going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.Barbados Field Note
Horse Sense
The Godfather Scene Hits Differently Now
Two horse images, two captions, and one uneasy cinematic association.
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I Don’t Like That Scene in The Godfather Anymore, Pal
Some movie references become less entertaining when the subject is standing in front of you.
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Horses Think
The expression suggests that the horse may already understand the joke.
The Satisfaction Ledger
What Keeps the Voltage High
The location helps, but the real amplifier is attention.
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Move through the place.The bicycle converts scenery into direct experience.
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Stay awake to wonder.Exotic locations help, but enthusiasm determines whether they register.
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Say yes to the energy.We are AmeriCANS, not AmeriCAN’TS.
The Elixir
You Are Here
The phrase is usually printed on a map. In Barbados, it became an instruction: stop looking for the next place long enough to feel the one beneath your feet.