Cubicle Throwdown

tales of a serial expat

Roatan Month 26 Roundup

by

After month 25 coming to you from Canada, this month’s roundup is actually coming from Roatan once again.


I am happily settling back in my little life on the island. While I picked a fairly terrible time to come back work-wise (this is the slowest time of year and won’t pick up again until Christmas) I am hoping I can scrape by until high season starts.

The 5 weeks I spent in Canada were, as always, never long enough to see everyone I wanted to. Sorry to anyone who I missed. Having spent significant chunks of my life in different cities in Canada means when I go back to visit, I have to divide my time between lots of places. During this trip, I spent my vacation in this order: 4 days in Vancouver, 4 days in Ucluelet, 2 days in Vancouver, 14 days in Moose Jaw, 5 days in Edmonton, and 5 days in Vancouver again. There were a lot of flights involved and time went fast. By the end, I was ready to get back to Roatan and sleep in my own bed!

Well, that’s the news! Shall we get on to the roundup? (You can see all the past roundups here.)
1. Gratuitous diving photo:

Haven’t been in the water much over the last month, so I don’t have one for you! I’m in the background a bunch on this video though, so you can see me diving here (I’m wearing a white rash guard):



And I make a few appearances in this one too:




2. Posts from the last month:

I didn’t get as much writing in as I would have liked due to all the traveling. Immediately after getting back to Roatan I spent a week diving with one of my readers who hired me for the week as his divemaster – it was a blast, and any other readers headed my way who are interested in something like that should contact me! I didn’t spend much time at the computer though, so here are the few posts from the last month in case you missed them:
  • How Taking a Walk at Night Was a Revelation – a night-time walk in Canada made me realize how my behavior has been altered by living in a place where it’s not safe to walk around at night.
  • Time to Go Again: Canada Highlights – a photo recap of all the awesome things I did (and ate) in Canada.
  • On Being a Chameleon – I was convinced in Canada that I was ‘home’, and ready to sign a lease. Then I got back to Roatan and felt like I would have to be dragged out of here kicking and screaming.

3. Best thing I’ve found on the internet lately:

I get so many emails from readers who are miserable in their cubicles and want to make an escape like I did. While I hope you all get to execute your very own cubicle throwdown, in the meantime… here are 54 Ways to Make Your Cubicle Suck Less 🙂

My fave is the hammock chair, obviously.

So happy fall to those of you in the northern climates. Enjoy your pumpkin spice lattes, boots & scarves and snuggly blankets. I’m back here sweating my ass off and getting sunburned and I am loving it!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  2. deso0023 . says

    Scuba diving sounds like so much fun. I've always wanted to try it but have never gotten around to it. I would absolutely love to have my cubicle under water in the ocean. I could party with the fish and craps like in the Little Mermaid!

  3. Murray says

    Haha….yea we all really had a lot of fun under the water during the days and under the tables at night…. Ike & I are already planning our next trip down But I might tag another Roatan visit solo this winter…speaking of partays….going to the Stamps Riders game tonight. going to be chilly!

  4. Rika - Cubicle Throwdown says

    Hi Murray, thanks so much for the enthusiastic testimonial!! You are awesome! Been verrrryyyy quiet around here without you and Ike 🙂 Hope you saw the videos Marco made, let me know if you need the link. Stay warm up there and DON'T STOP THE PARRRRTAAAAYYYYY

  5. Murray says

    Hey Rika…greetings from Calgary. I so enjoyed our time underwater and I am happy I hired you as my freelance Divemaster for a week. To anyone that is considering a trip to Roatan all I can say is that Rika is a wonderful divemaster/host and she is well known and respected within the dive community on the island. For me it was well worth it to just arrive knowing that she has every detail figured out in advance! Not to mention that she is just a lot of fun to hang with too.

  11. Karyn @ Not Done Travelling says

    I totally get the home visit fatigue! Everybody wants a bit of your energy and though they each individually ask for so little, the collective sum of it can really tire you out.

    That cubicle is awesome! I wonder about the occ health and safety issues with that hammock. My old work would never have allowed it haha.

  13. Rika - Cubicle Throwdown says

    Yep, definitely! Last year I went to Canada for 3.5 weeks and felt sooooo rushed and was tired when I got back. I thought this year would be better with 5 weeks but I ended up visiting two extra places so I was still running around everywhere! I guess it's a good thing that work is so slow here right now, so I'm kind of taking a 'staycation' 🙂

  14. Jess says

    Now I kind of want a cubicle, just so I can have one with a hammock trail.

    I think I feel the same way when I go back to the east coast as you do in Canada – I'm driving around between Boston and CT and NY and Virginia trying to see everyone I know before I'm back in Alaska.

  15. Emily says

    I hear ya on how tiring it can be when you head back 'home' for visits. When we'd head West from Toronto we'd have a million and one visits with various friends and family that by the time we would get back to TO we'd need another vacation from the vacation!

  16. Fabio says

    Will watch it 2morrow @ work…just got back yesterday from a superb vacation in Malta …bck to my cubicle in the morning -sigh- ?