I wake up and look over the Indian ocean. It has been six months I've been in Mozambique. From high above the orange coast, the blue water crawls up and down, back and forth, leaving a thin white outline in the sand that slowly disappears. So beautiful. I drop the curtain and the white light of the morning outside becomes the yellow light of the room. I sit at my desk blotter, open my laptop and start to write.
It was different when I was in Las Cruces New Mexico. I stayed at a Motel 6 while I was putting up electric fence. I was traveling around as a modern-day cowboy, getting work where I could, sometimes camping on park benches or underneath trees and saving up money to get away from everything I knew. After a long day in the New Mexico heat, I'd come home to my room, fill up the plastic ice bucket and watch TV for an hour, too tired to do anything else. Sometimes I'd go to sleep just like that, other times I'd wake after a cat nap and treat myself to a dinner of a big cheeseburger and fries and I'd be so happy and content I'd leave an extra tip in the guest check presenter.
I saved up enough to finally buy a ticket to Africa. The protests in Cairo made it pretty cheap to fly there and after I arrived I started hitchhiking down south. I had met a girl who told me she was a tour guide in Malawi, said she was able to stay on the beach for less than $200 a month. With all I'd saved I figured I could live that way for at least a couple of years if I needed to, without exerting myself, putting up electric fence or doing any kind of grunt work.
So here I am, staying in this hotel. It has a desk blotter, notepad holder and leather coasters on the desk. I wouldn't be able to afford this kind of living in the U.S. or Europe, but here I can live like a king. Some days I stay inside all day, writing and thinking. Other days I don't come home until four in the morning, after having explored all the different haunts in the neighborhood, making friends, and drinking late into the night. I like living a life of extremes, and as a drifter, going to hotels around the world, I can do so pretty easily.
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