Lemons Into Lemonade


So, I got evicted from my apartment in New York City.  It was nothing of my own fault; my lease was up, and the new owners of the building—a fancy developer group who’s built most of the celebrities’ houses in the affluent Hamptons—have decided not to renew my lease so that they could kick me out and convert my humble studio bachelor pad into a “luxury apartment”—a standard increasingly becoming the imposed norm to so many residences in New York City.  (Whether or not that is a good thing for the future of New York is a completely different debate, but let’s not lose focus here.)

Anyway, I must say that the past two years using New York as my base camp was great, it having served as a meeting point for many previous characters of ”The Trinidad Show.” The past couple of months I’ve played host to my Singaporean Connection Zac and Carol (we bought matching Nintendo wii’s); Sebastian (or Dave), whom I met in Morocco and visited in Vancouver, and is now a med student in Montreal; Aviv, Sebastian’s housemate in Vancouver, now at MIT in Boston; Sam, friend of fellow Londoner Zoe, from the surreal Bolivian salt flats tour; and, most recently, Rob and Leisa from the tornado chasing tour in the “Twisted" blog.  Ironically, after our search for Frito Pie all over the mid-west, Leisa and I finally got our taste of the delicacy of Fritos, brisket, chili, cheese, and other fixin’s (served in the bag) at tex-mex restaurant Cowgirl in the West Village, which also had an amazing and impressive ice cream sundae in the shape and colors of a baked potato! (picture above)

But I digress.  The point is, I got evicted from apartment, which is the perfect excuse for an aspiring travel writer to skip the country and blog again.  Right now, at the time of writing this, I am technically homeless, without a place to call my own, couch surfing and crashing at my folks’ house in the suburbs—a place where I’m preparing for a two-month jaunt back on the road. 

“Where are you going to live when you come back?” my friend Carina asked me.

“I don’t know.  I’ll figure that out when I get back,” was my reply.  Many of my concerned New York friends were worried about my new homelessness, but like Indiana Jones, I’m just “making it up as I go.”

“I really admire that,” my friend Ray said.  “That you can just bounce like that.”

“That’s the cool thing about you,” said my friend Gail, a copywriter that sometimes resorts to old adages.  “You’re given lemons, and you make lemonade.”

The proverbial lemonade, as it is, is a two-month concoction of adventure—sometimes sour, sometimes sweet—as I first hang out with my girlfriend Stephanie for a week at her new base camp in Ann Arbor, MI (where she attends grad school at the University of Michigan), followed by a long weekend excursion in Colorado for a friend’s wedding and a quick ride on the slopes.  Then, just before Thanksgiving, when most Americans are prepping up for meals that will most likely put them to sleep immediately, I will fly off to Central America—a region of the world I have not yet explored—and wander the expanse from Belize to Bogota, Colombia for six and a half weeks, getting into adventures along the way in signature Global Trip fashion.

You die-hard blog readers should be happy to know that this trip will go back to basics: it will primarily just be me, my gear, my laptop and my blog—the way this travel blog began four years ago—602 entries ago(!).  While I leave NYC on November 12th, the new blog won’t start until the 21st, when I land in Belize City… so stay tuned!

And so, four and half months since the last journey, a new Global Trip begins again, the result of me turning lemons into lemonade—although I would have preferred to make potatoes from ice cream if I could.


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This blog entry about the events of Thursday, November 01, 2007 was originally posted on November 06, 2007 on the travel blog, "The Global Trip: The Central American Eviction Tour* (*with jaunt to Colombia)." It is a trip blog chronicling a six-week journey through Central America, with a jaunt to Bogota, Colombia.


FUN FACT:

The baked potato ice cream thing is made of vanilla ice cream surrounded by sweet cocoa powder for the potato skin.  The sour cream is actually whipped cream, the chives are food-colored pecans, and the pat of butter is frosting.  It is delicious. Cowgirl is at 519 Hudson St. in NYC.  Their margaritas are good too.



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