Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Lunatic Night Walk. The sea of darkness

So two weeks or so have passed since my last long walk, to keep my sanity I decided to take this next trip, this time, I knew where I was going. To my surprise things might be a bit misleading in the night, specially when you can't hear your destination or see it in the night. Once again I was talking in the cellphone with my good friend Gerson, who once again asked me to please don't go walking in the night. But since I don't want to reach the old age I didn't listen and went out of my house at 12:00 am

To my happiness the bar "El Colegial" was open at that hour so I used the only two dollars and 25 cents I had in my pocket to buy myself a nice Smirnof Green apple, before the long journey I was about to go. Not knowing how lost I was gonna get.

Because I am shush a good person and like to keep my island clean I decided to turn back and walk around the houses for a while so once I finished the drink I had a trashcan nearby to dispose it.

That done I decided to go out of the known area and take the unknown path. Near the end was when I began getting confused, what in Google map appeared as a street was actually a large metal bridge for people only. The metal planks made loud noises and bent down as I walked in them. But the river under it looked nice and calm. After that I made my first mistake, I tough I had to keep walking forward but I saw a guy standing in the middle of the empty street so I took a turn. In the way near the funerary I saw a strange light orb come out and hover into some bushes. Also found another strange guy standing in the middle of a street who I think asked me for money but I had none.

I found myself in the viaduct what just told me, I have made a huge mistake and I was walking away from my destination. So I took a turn and went into the next street. As I walked I notice a place full of people so I took a turn to a more solitary street were I saw a rather peculiar building that had the name Stealth in it and the drawing of a black angel in one side. finally I found a dead end and no sign of the sea. Even tho in the map it looks like I was so close to the sea I took a turn passed behind the bat and kept on walking some rather unused streets that belonged to some factories. later I found a bridge that was only for cars so I decided to walk back away from what I tougth was the good way. ending up in a rather strange neighborhood with old houses.

Creepy enough I got in the heart of those old and small looking houses where I saw a guy entering a house with a bicycle and his face was masked. Y took a turn away from him and ended up in a dead end, so I walked back and took another dead end so I just traced my steps back and went walking in front of another bar. back to were I came from but trough another street.

and when I finished walking I found myself in the street were I saw the first guy standing. So I began rethinking where I was and decided to take a turn toward the correct path. I ended up in a large bridge and I tough I was in the bridge I wanted to take in the first place so I walked back and ended back in the street with the black angel so trying to walk other streets just in case someone saw me didn't noticed I was lost I took a few unnecessary turns back to the bridge. The buildings there looked extremely old and the gates looked almost castle like. but I kept on walking.

Then I started looking in the direction the river went and I noticed that all that was over there was some rather heavy dark looking wilderness and the most nearer streets that went in the direction I tough was the sea was in another side of a highway, and there was no sidewalk there. But considering it was already 1 am in the morning in a rather solitary place I ran in the middle of the highway and not even one car passed. I was getting scared, I was passing near construction sights and no sign of the sea. No sound no wind just the distant bark of dogs. I was about to call Gerson who I told I was gonna call him so he could hear the sea, and tell him I had failed miserably and was now lost. But then I heard it, the sound of the sea, the beautiful sound of crashing of waves. I followed the street and saw some dogs barking at me, yet no sign of path to go there, I was thinking again to turn back. but then I notice an open green area that wasn't full of tall grass, and immediately called my friend. Happy with joy I finally saw the waves, the almost infinite plain of darkness, I was so overjoyed.

Under a nice tree I found a fallen tree that served perfectly as a seat and there I sat, for about an hour. Looking at the sea and meditating. While in there I saw some nocturnal birds running in the shoreline. Probably eating. Until I decided to leave.

I took the same path back, now looking at the map I notice I took a rather long path when I could have took a short cut, but the reason of this walks is not to get to places fast, is just to enjoy the beauty of the night. To go to places at hours no one goes, and experience the world without the pain of the sun. In the way I saw this guy coming from the University, for a reason I found him familiar, he looked almost like my friend, so after we passed each other I decided to look back, just to find out he was also looking back. But I kept on walking.

Passed in front of "El Colegial" wish was already closed, only the bartender was cleaning around.

and I got back home with a smile in my face and a large feeling of accomplishment, the waves still fresh in my mind, the beautiful sight of the moonless night, the blurry of the horizon like a lived dream.

4 sleeping pills
2 pain relievers
no casualties.

1 comments:

Richard Kaufman said...

Dude, o te tomaste mas de una smirnoff, esta en drogas mientras escribias, o es ficcion. Whoa.