Humans spend 1/3 of their lives asleep. It is a chance for us to give in to nature's inevitable demands in order to recharge, restore and re-energize ourselves. Sleeping on a mattress in your house can become monotonous. It is good to mix it up.
So I've Made a List, of
- with blistered toes, under the Fish River Canyon Stars (namibia)
- Above the treeline in New Zealand
- On a deserted Guatemalan Beach (you might wake up in the morning and confuse the sound of waves for bombs, that will only last a moment)
- In the arms of someone who cares about you (cheesy, I know. And I hate to admit it, but it is true)
- With A Full Belly thanks to the kindness of strangers, on South Africa's Otter Trail
- On a Navy Frigate, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
- Under Namibian Stars with baboons circling closer and closer to your exposed, dragged outside mattress [(?)fine, it was scary at the time, but badass in retrospect]
- by firelight, snuggled up in your warm sleeping bag, with The Life of Pi read outloud, in NATURE, NZ-Style
- In a Homemade (read ghetto-rig) hammock in the Guatemalan jungle
- at Duke: in the Duke Forest AND on top of the Bryan Center AND on the roof of the West Campus library
- in a tent in Botswana, with elephants and hyenas passing by in the night (and their footprints as proof of this in the am)
- in Etosha National Park, until roars of an animal wake you up and you leave your tent to go see what in tarnation can make a sound like that--not elephants, but a solo male lion can.
- in your own private beach hut in Goa, India (house lizards and wanna-be house cats are welcome companions)
- In a homemade fort on a rainy night (9 Bedford represent)
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