Vail

Yesterday my lovely little stint in Vail, Colorado came to an end. i have been trying to think of the best way to explain the magnificence of Vail to you with out writing a novel of sweet gushing adjectives but really didnt know where to start- Vail is so many things- but as we were preparing to leave i realized exactly with Vail is to me. im sure most people would have a place like this. to some it maybe their family home or bed to me it has always been a destination. somewhere you feel complete, at home, and more like yourself then anywhere else. to me this place has long been the beautiful Coromandel in New Zealand. Time and time again when it comes to the day when i have to leave this spot, no matter how soon i will back, this overwhelming sadness or disappointment gushes over me. like your falling from heaven and returning into the real world.

and yesterday as i was sitting in the streets of vail i felt this similar feeling- like when i would leave there i would leave a little piece of me too and go back into the real world feeling a little more lost. like Vail gave me that comfort of home and the Coromadel- a place that i am missing so much- and then i left it behind again.

a few weeks ago i found this picture on another blog and saved it feeling like i could relate to this feeling in terms of leaving New Zealand and have been waiting to share it with you, and maybe on a smaller scale Vail presents this feeling too.....

Perfect detail from light switches and door handles to patterned guttering, pathed streets laced with quaint street lights, wild flowers, heavy wooden and stone pedestrian bridges over the stoney creek that runs parallel with the town, and over flowing flower boxes. the atmosphere where you dont know if you are walking in the middle of the road or not- but it doesn't matter either way. where locals greet all down the streets, have secret spots and a surreal understanding to the paradise they live in- something that maybe tourist understand but never have the guts to live it. this is Vail.