Einstein said, there are two ways to view life. “One is as though nothing is a miracle. And one is as though everything is a miracle.” I ponder this lying in a bronze hued hammock stretched across an azure rooftop pool at a boutique hotel on a Sunday afternoon in Merida on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, and conclude that l embrace the latter.
We’re on a self curated food safari road-trip taking in the major flavours of Mexican cuisine, stopping for private cooking schools with Chefs, eating at great local restaurants, taking walking food tours, and visiting artisan’s studios to learn their crafts.
Prior to this leg of the trip we’d landed in LA then headed to La Quinta near Palm Springs for the Coachella music festival, the highlight of which was Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters doing a surprise, two song performance with the LA Philharmonic under the conductor Gustavo Dudamel. And yes, a music festival includes the portaloo experience, but life is not perfect. For some in this world that would be life on a good day.
Post festival we headed out to the desert to Joshua Tree National Park for some starry night skies away from the crowds, sleeping in a modernised silver Airstream, cooking on a campfire and having a brief but joyous rendezvous with friends from Philadelphia. I’d met them during my stay in New York in 2023 attending a concert in Brooklyn of The Hives and we’ve been close friends in music and life ever since.
It was Kit, in amidst our media disconnect, who let us know that Pope Francis had passed away. In hospital he wrote, “Walk your own path, and let go of the path others have chosen for you…Love more, forgive more, embrace more, live more intensely!” We couldn’t agree more.
