Tacos, Tourists, Treasures.

Yesterday I stopped at a taco truck: Pacho’s Healthy Mexican Food. I recognize that Healthy Mexican Food sounds like an oxymoron, but I was really hungry and when I looked up across a busy intersection, I saw the truck and felt like God was shining a ray of light on the sign. In retrospect, maybe I was delusional because I was so hungry! Anyhow, when I was ordering two tacos, the guy asked me why not just order a burrito (same price, same ingredients, different shape). I told him they were very different eating experiences and the guy next to me nearly fell off his seat laughing. I really didn’t think I was being funny.

They were delicious eating experiences for sure. Afterwards I was talking to this guy who laughed. He said something about having a house on each Hawaiian island. I said something about wanting to sail around the Hawaiian islands and he said, ‘I know you will do this because this is your dream, but be careful because there is a very dangerous channel that my grandfather go trapped in and floated for two days in the ocean before he was rescued.’ Umm, I don’t need to sail around the islands that badly.

We kept talking and he asked me this and that. I said something about how living in Hawaii with such immediate access to the power of nature, it seems easier to tap into the great mystery of life. Not that we come up with any more answers, just that it seems easier to access this part of ourselves that is connected to everything around us. He honored me with a comment about how spiritually aware I am. I responded I am not so sure about that, but I am working on it. I think we are all working on it or we wouldn’t be here. He laughed again and then told me he was going to write two books titled:
• I’m working on it.
• It’s a different eating experience.
(He reminded me a little of Socrates from a Peaceful Warrior in his demenor.)

So if you ever see books or stories with those titles, I want to make sure I get some royalties!



This photo has nothing to do with this story, but what kind of treasure does this guy think he is going to find in the shallow protected waters of Waikiki? Seriously dude. A metal detector?