an image that just makes me want to move

Its a moment like this when it all sinks in.  You've been planning this for months.  Foregoing parties and nights out so you can spare the dollars to get you here.  That first plunge when you commit to the air ticket.  The doubt that follows.  Is it worth it?  Shouldn't I buy another board and just cruise up the coast instead.  That doubt is left behind when your board bag slides off on the conveyor at check in.  The flight is replaced by new doubt.  Will I get skunked?  It's a long way to go to sit on a beach and read a book.  Maybe collect a few shells for the girl.

You land and your boards reappear through the plastic curtains.  When you step out on the cracked pavement and into the brightness, the smells and the noise of an exotic city, you know it's for real.  Still the doubt lingers.

A few more days of orientating yourself, tasting the local beer, cramped long bus rides with locals, and their livestock and eventually you find yourself on the verge of a dusty road.  The diesel fumes disappate and the rumble of the bus is replaced by the swish of the wind in the dry grass.  In the distance, is the ocean and the sight you've come so far for.  The prize.  The reward.

Credit: Lowe-white

 
But the glimpse still hides the full truth and the doubt sits higher in your pit.  There are still hurdles to overcome before you can claim success.  Will you fail here?  The challenge is before you. 

Go and meet it.