Book progress journal
Day Seven, "To Sea"
Day seven (I think) of book edits. Yesterday the whole group of us took a boat around the island to hang out at a small coastal village I'm not remembering the name of. (Maybe it was Bonete.) The surf was very big and it got wilder the closer we got to the village. We swam in the booming sea and in the surprisingly cold river and ate fried yuca dipped in soupy beans. The trip back we rose up over the swells in our very small boat and dropped back down with a great, thrilling CLAP each time. Hell of a ride. Exciting and good in a fundamental, primal, spice-of-life way. Not for the faint of heart.
Today we slept in a little, went to town for groceries, and swam in the dark. I worked in the morning and just now. Not as productive as days prior but still moving steadily onward. Very confident I'll finish these edits before we leave. It's a good group here. Elizabeth, Nate, Sara, Alex, Marina, three languages, seven cats in the house. Rain most nights. Parrots in the trees. Wild Horse Shit will be a much better book because of this, and I imagine these good days will wind up in another book because most of these things do. Now dinner.