10 Years, 12 Nights, 6 Hotels, ONE LOVE - April 2012 Trip Report

[Hubby-man]

Wow! - ...where to begin…..

How can I explain what happened during this trip? How can I bring you all along on this journey, so that rather than being just readers of a trip report, you can become experiencers - participants yet - in every lick of joy and love and miracle that this trip was to us?

It was not the broad strokes and big events that made this trip so special. The greatness of what happened occurred between the lines, lay in the subtleties of the interactions, in the how rather than the what. We gathered as a small tribe of human beings, brought together by Negril.com, and made a big celebration out of life. A window opened in the fabric of the Universe and a fresh breeze came through.

Something opened up inside as a consequence. The walls came down and we talked. We had good talks, and angry ones, short ones and long ones, deep ones and shallow ones. But most of all we all had open talks. Talks with words and hugs and gestures, Dollar bills and coconuts.

I also want to explain the word above: “EPIC”. At the end of it all, we felt, it was the most appropriate one-word description for what we experienced

I found the following definition on http://www.urbandictionary.com :

“The most overused word ever. [...].Epic car. Epic haircut. Epic movie. Epic album. Epic shut the ***** up! “ (voted #1)

and:

“A word, whose meaningful definition(s)and correct applications are now obscured and have been raped to death mostly by the 25 and under crowd. It has been overused as "the" catch phrase used to describe a situation, person, event, movie, taking a sh*t ,etc. .” (voted #2)

Angry stuff. That is certainly not like OUR “epic”.

Here is Merriam Webster-with some help:

“extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in size or scope”

Better, but still not perfect... . I think, what we meant was : “Meaningful, timeless and unforgettable, something that we have never experienced quite like that.”

When we left we also agreed that the end of this trip was not an end at all, but rather a beginning. Not like a high or an acid trip, but a shift in insight. A shift that everyone can participate in and be part of. The kind of shift that going to Jamaica causes every time, but when you share it with so many people you love, the energy changes an order of magnitude, like a chain-reaction in a nuclear explosion.

Like the meaning, that the mysterious book had to my trip last time, I cannot promise this trip report will live up to the expectation this introduction promises. After all, I am writing a preface to a book before the book is written. Not a smart idea, but that's how this works. On the web everything is “work in progress”, and revisions are already too late before they are made. So let's hope words soon come, and we won't let you down with a taste, but no sustenance.

If I can't get the words out the right way, the best way to experience this trip might be to read about it from the perspective of the others as well, to get the whole 3D-idea. Hence I will keep posting links to other trip reports that describe the same experience here, as they pop up on the board :

Marley and Ninja - http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...ort-April-2012

Guiriguy & Sweetie-Pie - http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...pened%E2%80%A6

Booger - http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...ood-Times-Trip

SpottyCatz - http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...es-What-a-Trip!

Katho - http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...pril-2012-EPIC

PattySather (w/Joe & Manda) – http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...-big-adventure

Gerryg123 – http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...-Negril/page31

Luvsdaisland - http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...-Stay-With-You

Sweetness - http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...iddle-Quarters
http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...-2012-YS-Falls

Investigating a Love Story - http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...ATX-amp-GonJon