andean mountains

i have a lot of catching up to do here. I will be uploading pictures of fairchild tropical botanic garden in coral gables soon with visits that i made with my family, mom and little cousins and another visit i made with some friends.

right now, i am writing as i sit at the fort lauderdale airport waiting to board a plane to go to Bogotá. It's the craziest, most beautiful feeling. I am nervous and excited, I actually have no expectations and most of all I feel so loved, in a matter of a few hours, actually really just minutes after planing my trip, people that I love, both family and friends reached out with messages and phone calls making sure that I would have everything I need while visiting, from a place to stay to ways to contact them. But what moved me the most is just to know how much they care and how much they love me.  It's been seven years!!!! since the last time I came and eight years since I moved away, however loved ones back home still write for birthdays and graduations and all of special occasion and it means so much. I really feel that they taught me through their example how to love unconditionally despite of distance and time, and how to be a good friend.

Driving to the airport, my eyes started to get watery and I know that I will cry for sure. I made sure to pack a box of tissues and I am ready to feel this whole experience with every single cell of my being, to allow every single cell of the andean mountain air be engraved in me, in my heart, in my body. My entire body feels extremely soft, it almost feels liquid.

So keep tuned, because I will make sure to take tons of pictures and I am sure that I will come back with stories of home, mountains, family, friends and I will come back a little bit more alive, more free, more myself. I am curious to see, how being back will affect me, change me and shape me and how it will feel to be back in the andean mountain range. I am praying for the altitude change to not be to bad.