Mazunte, Oaxaca.

Summer is basically done and I already miss it. I really like the idea of summer, even though it can get oppressively hot and spring is a much better season . We still have some 80 degree days, but nights are getting in the sixties and we are closer and closer to the change in color in the foliage. And then I found this video and decided summer lives eternal. I don't really rough it up often. I have seldom gone glamping, like Maddie does, but I think I could enjoy something like this.

I think I'm the kind of person who would get killed first in a post-apocalyptic scenario. The one who gets eaten by the zombies or the giant insects or the vampires or whatever monster decimated earth. I'm way too softened by city living and spoiled by the comfort of a house to survive. But I think spending a week or two in Mazunte would solve that problem. This is the kind of vacation I'd like to have, I think. Very little internet (I'd miss blogging, but I'd have that beach!), climbing up and down stairs to get home, long days at the beach, walking to do some shopping and... no walls. I'd freak out a little with the crabs walking around and the occasional iguana, but hey.

Being disconnected from everything could help my psyche. This would be something really worth trying, I think. The barrage of bad news we get every day can be crushing. Not to mention the PTSD we have from four years of relentless corruption and stupidity. Add the pandemic to that mix and the need of four weeks of surf and turf kind of sound like paradise. There's also the back-to-basics idea of living in a house that does not have a coffee bar, an elliptical machine or a tv set in every room. We are coddled into thinking we need a lot of stuff to live but at the end of the day we need little more than two walls and great company. Well, three walls, if we go by what these guys have!

Bernardo and Adam have made traveling seem fun again in this video. I think I would like to enjoy this kind of pared-down, bare bones living. When the power went off during the rainstorm, I kind of felt it was scary. But then I realized you would be able to look at all the stars when the rain ended and the sound of the sea would still be there, those things get lost in the everyday drone of city life. And they had each other. Let's not forget that.

"On our home page, we share with more about who we are and how our love story unfolds:   It all started with Adam's decision to backpack to Brazil, after 3 years of living there he was ready to go back to the states until a few likes on Instagram from Bernardo, which lead to Adam sliding into Bernardo's DMs."

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The video is super cute and it could give the impression that living like that is an adventure, but it also speaks of the privilege many of us have of being able to travel and change scenery so easily. For some people, this is daily life. Bernardo and Adam will go back to their lives after they stop traveling. I wondered how they would pay for all that, though. 

I know, I can pop my own bubble easily. I think I got the answer in their website. It seems they use their travels to finance their lifestyle. Hence the Patreon link in their website and the link which offers promo codes for AirBnb places and the such. Very smart. I'm sure the eye candy in their channel keeps eyes on them and it also keeps income flowing. It's a lifestyle not everybody could have. But more power to them for being able to enjoy it while providing information about the places they visit.

One day they'll be back in Portland. Maybe with a new understanding of what they do have at home. Right?

XOXO