What Spain Taught Me About Slowing Down

So let's take it back to a couple weeks ago when I was feeling young, energized, healthy, clear-minded.

I got to board my very, very first, uh, first class lay-flat seat on an airplane.

Everything was right in the world, honestly.

Um, everything except for one sneaky little detail that my Ultrahuman ring flagged literally on the morning that I left for Spain.

I had to head to the airport at, like, 4:45.

I actually had, um, like a car pick me up from our house to take me to the airport.

I don't really feel comfortable using Ubers at that hour, and honestly, the price difference really wasn't that significant, um, if anything, honestly.

So I'd arranged that, and I felt a little groggy, but I was like, of course.

Like, I've just gotten up so early.

You know, I had gotten back from Atlanta only a couple days before with my trip with Gabriel and his family.

And so feeling, like, a little bit tired and off really wasn't anything that raised a red flag for me.

However, my Ultrahuman ring did send me a little message and said, "Hey, your temperature is a little bit elevated.

This could be the early sign of a fever.

Be careful of your immune load." Like, you know, "This is, like, early signs of illness," blah, blah, blah.

And I was like, "Huh, I've never received that message from my Ultrahuman ring." But I was like, "Okay.

You know, I'm sure I'm not in, like, tip-top health at this point, but how bad can it really be?" [chuckles] So anyways, time goes on.

We take this amazing, amazing flight to Barcelona.

Well, technically from Vancouver to Montreal, Montreal to Barcelona, and I'm really trying to, like, catch up on sleep on that flight that I had in the lay-flat.

I'm catching up on work.

I'm excited for the trip ahead.

I'm just feeling, like, really, really prepared for a vacation.

Honestly, a couple, a couple months ago, I kept saying how I wanted to take four weeks off in the summer and while I kinda did that in my own way, that's still, like, a massive accomplishment.

And I was just really looking forward to, like, having some time away from my desk, spending some time in another warm place with palm trees, which is really where I feel most like myself.

So got to Barcelona Airport, and we actually had to take one more flight.

So our third flight, which would take us to Ibiza.