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Worth It

written by Brenna Holeman June 5, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gili Trawangan, Indonesia
In the past three days I’ve developed a whopper of a cold, complete with a cough and incessantly runny nose. I’m experiencing this, of course, in June, in Honduras, in +30 degree heat. This is eerily reminiscent of my experience in Thailand and Burma last year, when I got deathly ill and then (stupidly) decided to go diving for a week in Koh Tao.
Tomorrow, I will take a seven hour bus ride from Copan Ruinas to La Ceiba, on the coast of Honduras. I stay overnight there, then I take the early ferry to Utila, a famous backpacker island that is apparently bliss for all those who like to dive, drink, and swim. I couldn’t be more excited…this cold be damned. Learning my lesson (with a lung infection thrown in to boot) last year, however, I’m going to make sure I feel 100% before getting in the water again.
Sometimes, when I’m lying in a hot hotel room, one whose toilet doesn’t flush without taking apart the entire plumbing, when my nose is running and my fever is spiking and my head is pounding, when I can’t fall asleep because there is loud karaoke going on next door (complete with Mexican war cries), when I face the prospect of a seven hour bus ride through the humid Honduran countryside feeling like my body is made of lead, sometimes I wonder if all of this adventuring is worth it. I wonder if two full days of travel, the hassle of it and the cost of it, is worth it.
But it is. It’s worth it to taste new cuisine and laugh with new friends. It’s worth it to discover a new world, whether that world is in a jungle or underwater or in a city or simply in a crowded hostel. It’s worth it to be able to wake up early and watch the sun rise over a beach you’d never heard of a year ago, and think it’s the most beautiful thing.
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Megan C. Stroup June 5, 2012 - 3:44 am

Oh my goodness: tiny crab! I am loving all your gorgeous travel pics. Hope you feel better soon!

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Jay June 5, 2012 - 6:12 am

I’ve been sick more this year than I have any other and it never dips below 25 here. I hate feeling sick and having to keep the airconditioning on!

It’s certainly most difficult when you aren’t at home and you don’t have familiar things at your disposal. Hope you are on the mend soon!

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Steph June 5, 2012 - 1:39 pm

Hope you’re feeling a million times better really soon! X

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Rebecca McKanna June 5, 2012 - 8:15 pm

Yes, it is worth it. Hope you feel better soon!

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[Ali] To Be Continued... June 6, 2012 - 6:28 am

Poor poppet, hope you feel 100% very soon, sending you hugs! Beautiful photos as per my dear, I took a similar one the other day of the crab! xxx

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This Battered Suitcase June 7, 2012 - 6:12 pm

Thank you so much, everyone! I’m feeling a little bit better now but still not well enough to dive, which is a shame. Guess I will just have to spend my days sitting by the ocean..

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My name is Brenna Holeman and I drink a lot of whisky. No, wait. That’s not how I want to start. After travelling to more than 100 countries over the past 15 years, many of them solo, I tend to write about travel a lot, but I write about other things, too: getting dumped, buying way too much jewellery, and yeah, OK, whisky (none of those things are related, I swear). You’ll find a mix of advice, opinion pieces, and stories on this blog, but either way, I hope to make you want to read more. And up next? I'm about to become a single mom to a beautiful baby boy, the biggest solo adventure I've ever been on. For more about me and what you'll find on This Battered Suitcase, click here .

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