(WT-en) Exactly~Divyn

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Our Past

Two Years ago, my wife and I did an experiment. We left society and headed up into the mountains to live and learn from 4 different Aboriginese Cultures. We learned to farm, build, wilderness survival skills, opened a juice bar and worked as tour guides with the Tsou Tribe, then went and lived on a haunted mountain in a little jungle shack deep in the wilderness on The Bunun Tribal Land. We migrated over to the east coast, helped a friend build his guesthouse, and then were off to pristine Orchid Island where we learned to spear fish and farm with the Ta'o Tribe. We spent the last year successfully creating the first Ayahuasca Healing Center in Asia using a tree bark indigenous to Taiwan, and trained Shamans in 3 cities to carry on the Healing work. For futher, experience, check out Our Present!

Our Present

During Chinese New Year of this Year, I had a series of signs that told me it was time to make our dream move, over to Taiwan's East Coast to start a new life. I have a friend in Taitung, A-Dung, that owns the coolest guesthouse I have ever seen. It was with him that we hooked up with in our previous adventures and helped him build his guesthouse for two months. It's a Bali-like paradise up against the Beinan mountains with an excellent veiw, spacious land, and an outdoor lounge bar. It's the best place I know to get some true R & R.

I stayed and worked with A-Dung for a couple of weeks. Divine, at 7 months pregnant, went and did a 10-Day Vipasanna Retreat in Taichung. A-dung and I took a trip up the East Coast looking for a place for us to settle. I was looking for something very beautiful near the ocean. I was actually looking for a feeling, a feeling that this is where I belong. A-Dung mentioned that he has a friend in Big Harbor, a place that I had visited once during my previous stay with him. We decided to drive up and check it out.

As we arrived I started to get goose bumps. I saw the Shou Gu Luan River, with its mountain-Island at the mouth of the river and the magnificent red bridge crossing the River basin. The air was crisp and fresh with mountains cascading down to meet beaches seperating them from the deep blue Pacific. God! How I wouls love to live here! The feeling had arrived! We sat down and ate a delicious bowl of noodle at the shop where the buses tranfer, a bus pulls up and low and behold, by good friend Peace Dave gets off, just returning from the Rainbow Gathering on his way home back to Hualien. There was my sign! I was HOME!

A few days later, I moved all of our stuff into an old fixer-upper on my new friend's land. I spent the next 5 day painting and rennovating the place, all the while trying to figure out what I was going to do for money in this picturesque little village! But, as always, I knew that the Universe would provide, and on about day 6, it did!

The owner of a very beautiful homestay on Shi Ti Pi stopped by while I was scraping tar-paper off the ceiling of my living room. He brought the owner of Seawhale Ocean Tours, Mr Lin over to meet us. Mr. Lin said later that it was our smiles that decided it for him. He asked me to come over in the afternoon for an informal interview. As we talked, I learned that over the past few years, he had been turning down a host of foreign travelers because of language barriers, and he was in desperate need of an English Tour Operator. During the interview, a friend from Taipei called up and said he was sending a family of four from Panama down to stay at the guesthouse. Mr. Lin asked me if I could start tonight. The rest, I might say, is history…presently in the making.

Our Future

Well, one of my favorite phrases is:

Plans never keep up with change.

My life changes so often that I find planning a little useless. But I still find it entertaining, so:

The family from Panama told me that in their travels in Taiwan (and they really knew how to travel), coming to our Harbor was their most unforgettable experience. They ended up staying an extra day, even though we are in the off-season right now. They spent their time sleeping in, eating HUGE fresh seafood meals, walking around the harbor and beaches, drinking coffee on Mr. Wang's beautiful seaside balcony, and sharing their many experiences with us. It was an unforgetable experience for all of us!

I plan on connecting the best of here with the rest of the world, and helping the rest of the world truly experience this amazing place and the miriad of activities and new experiences that it offers. It lights up my life to see people truly enjoying themselves, ad brings me a satisfaction that is unique to this career.

Come and visit us, and I will show you! Our Website

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