ST MAARTEN. . . Forever a special place to me and others.

First I would like to say, I will not have anymore detail on my trip across country. Call me for that. New stuff is here now! Im married!

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Here is an excerpt from paul's blog, Hard to put into words but he does a great job trying.

...but i'll give it my best shot.

48 hours ago, I was boarding a plane leaving St. Maarten. I'm exhausted. I'm sore. I'm burned. I have sand in places I never thought i'd have sand. And I'm rockin' the perma-grin like nobody's business.

What an amazing experience. And if you happen to talk to El, tell him congrats!

To clarify, it wasn't just about the place. Don't get me wrong: St. Maarten is absolutely beautiful. But you know how when you're with the right group of people, any place instantly becomes better? This was a textbook example.

Perhaps you could describe this vacation as a perfect storm of awesomeness (for lack of a better term): spending time with old friends while making new ones in a such a perfect setting...easily one of the best experiences of my life thus far. That's not to say that there aren't better times ahead, but I certainly want to do my best to remember as much as possible of this one.

In the coming days and weeks, I hope to post as much detail as I can recollect in an attempt not only to communicate amazing of an experience this was, but in a (selfish) attempt to help myself remember as much as I can of these 6 days. I spent much of the plane ride home scribbling onto a notepad any stories...any triggers I could think of...and many of those will make their way onto here. Pictures, videos, and streams of consciousness the likes of which few have experienced are not out of the question. :)

(Quick tangent: The girl sitting next to me on the plane ride home didn't appear to speak a lick of English, but the look in her eyes when I glanced up from my 2+ hours of scribbling said it all: THIS GUY'S GONNA BLOW UP THE PLANE. haha.)

I digress.

Before I get back to work, i'd like to preface the next couple entries by saying that there's no way I could possibly explain to you every detail of this trip. It was pure craziness, and I wish I could go back and do it all over again...

Here goes nothing...