With everything going on in our lives, Ellie and I decided to escape for a night. I'll probably make a longer post about the trip, as everything was near to perfect.
It's a 90min drive up the mountain and then down into the valley on the other side. The Intag Valley. I already wrote a couple of post about that in my Worlmappin.
The road is somewhat choppy, and it's not fun for the breaks to go down into the valley. But my brother's car did a great job, as always, although there were some "I'm burning here!"-scents coming from the front part...
After 6 years, Ellie and I have a wide selection of songs that are vacation for us. Songs to remember everything. And especially there, sitting in the car, driving in the sun, her in the passenger seat with her ridiculously short shorts, the sun glasses, the wind going through her hair - and those songs again.
First one is from a trip that I surprised her with. It was her birthday, we had been together 1.5 years. I arranged with her brother, sister and boss to pick her up at noon that day, and took her to the close by hot springs, Chachimbiro, where I had booked a suite for the night. She had no idea where we were going. It was the most beautiful escape, and when driving back the next day, REM was the song that stuck with us.
We did several trips to the beach. This was our first solo escape to the beach. I was sick as a dog, but we didn't want to cancel, so I went with around 39°C fever. Her love and gin & tonics spiked with loads of ginger and lemon brought me back to life quite quickly. Reckless? Yes. Absolutely worth it, though. On the way back, I was already at my best, and she did the DJ as she had driven the whole way to the coast, so it was my turn to go back. And we listened to a lot of our old favorites, including Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. That mix of nostalgia and driving fast on the new roads at the coast through the hot tropical air...
The last one is a memory from a concert we went to. We're thinking about getting married, and this song could be 1:1 our vows. It's quite impactful if you listen to the story of your relationship interpreted by someone entirely else.
I had never heard of Elefante before Ellie proposed to go to that concert in Quito. 3 bands. Friday night. It was quite the chaos, we arrived too late for the first concert and it was raining and cold. Quito can be cruel that way. They were just changing the stage when we stumbled into a row where we had some view on... nothing. The stage from our side was mostly covered with plastic against the rain. Well, the sound was still very good, and there were some screens.
That memory, hugging her while she ecstatically sings all the lyrics of most of the songs, feeling my feet go numb by cold, and the rain in our faces.
There are many more songs, of course. Many more memories. A whole playlist so to speak. A playlist of almost exclusively good times.
Post written for the #saturdayselections by Galenkp inviting us to share music in the Weekend Experiences community on Saturdays.
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