by jakebenno@gmail.com | Oct 29, 2016 | ayearsseafever
Week Twenty Two. The Villa. A two hour drive inland from the ocean and I found myself surrounded by rolling green hills. Visiting a most wonderful friend for the week i was shown to my quarters which looked like something out of a fairy tale. The house had it’s...
by jakebenno@gmail.com | Oct 29, 2016 | ayearsseafever
Week Twenty One. Ghost Town. This place along the French coastline is alive with people and activities during the summer. But during the winter and Spring months it becomes a ghost town. Running through the spacious dunes and empty houses with storm clouds...
by jakebenno@gmail.com | Oct 29, 2016 | ayearsseafever
Week Twenty. The French Countryside. This week was a strange one. It was the first time I had really been alone in quite a few months. Staying in my friends old country house in the south of France was quite isolating in someways. Even though I had craved some...
by jakebenno@gmail.com | Oct 28, 2016 | ayearsseafever
Week Nineteen. Reunions. Every once in a while you meet people in life who you instantly connect with. Anne was one of those people. We met a year earlier out in the surf in Lombok. I was instantly drawn to her easy smile and good vibes she was putting out in...
by jakebenno@gmail.com | Apr 5, 2016 | ayearsseafever
Week Eighteen. Farewell To The Tropics. After two months in this tropical paradise it was time to pack my things and move on. Farewells are never easy and this was no exception. Saying good by to this little corner of paradise that had become a home to me was...
by jakebenno@gmail.com | Mar 27, 2016 | ayearsseafever
Week Seventeen. The Blue Lagoon. They slid effortlessly through the tropical green. Dipping and diving, letting the undertow drag them out into deeper water. Surrounded by the salty silk, tangled together like seaweed the ocean was their playground, the sea...
