Yesterday - Monday 29-Nov
With about four and a half months left until we depart from the states, I figured that I should shoot Kim (Koh Ra Owner) a follow up/check in email to see how things were going on the island. With hopes of good word and a bit more info on your duties on the island I awaited his email response with great anticipation. Having requested a day off from work for a trip to the Thai consulate to see which visa will allow us 5 months worth of stay on Thailand have already been granted. Our dreams of island life as we know it were within reach.
Today - Tuesday 30-Nov 9:00am
"Hi Aaron, Things have changed here majorly. I cannot say if I will be here after April, including next year, so I cannot offer you a place here. I'm sorry, but I have no control over that and what has happened. I hope you still make it to Thailand but please don't base any decision on Koh Ra situation. Again, I'm sorry.
Kim"
The one versatile word that begins with the letter "F" was the only word that came to mind. The dreams of discovering, documenting and co-existing with nature has vanished, for now.
A few weeks ago, I brought up this scenario with Keri and asked her what we would do if the island fell through? We didn't come up with anything as extravagant as island care taking, but none the less we still have ticket to Bangkok. In theory we shouldn't have invested ourselves completely to the idea of the island, but was impossible not to.
I'm an honest believer in that everything happens for a reason, and if it the island wasn't ment to be then so be it. We now have to pick up our cards and start dealing again. Moral is down but hopes are always high, just another bumb in the every adventurous road.
Namaste
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