The World of Angy Wong

There is something about the Pacific Ocean that immediately calms me, and grounds me to the present like nothing else can. On Wednesday, a friend and I decided to go on a quick trip to Tofino – leaving Friday afternoon and coming back Saturday night. Considering it takes about 5 hours to get there, this meant we would have very limited time to spend on the beach. However, since she is from California and have been missing the crashing waves for a while, and after the somewhat turbulent year I’ve had, we both really needed to just dip our feet into the ocean. So, we set out to Tofino and it was rather disastrous. We missed our ferry. We ended up in Campbell River somehow (which is the opposite direction of Tofino) and we ended up getting to our B&B four hours later than had intended thereby missing sunset. However, despite all that, the Pacific Ocean was all worth it. I must have spent a good three hours just walking up and down the beach – always making sure my feet were in the water. I felt at ease. The worries of what is and what will be disappeared. I was just there and simply enjoying the breeze of the ocean, the sound of the crashing waves, and the feeling of water around my feet. I was happy. Simple as that.

Now, a few things to remember of this short two-day trip:

1. Missing the ferry – Fail #1
2. Ending up on the wrong highway – Fail #2
3. Ending up in Campbell River (end of the highway) before realizing that we went the wrong way – Major Fail #3!
4. Getting into a traffic jam because a boat flipped over the side of the road – Fail #4 (though not our fault!)
5. Ending up in Tofino 4 hours late – Fail #5
6. Laughing. For two people who just became friends like a couple of weeks ago, we laughed pretty much throughout the trip.Despite all the fails, we just laughed and laughed because ultimately, we couldn’t really do anything about it.
7. Trading stories about our siblings – everything from fights, watching gilmore girls, going on gay dates unintentionally, etc.
8. Trading stories about our childhood – washing plywood, catching dragon flies and using them as kites, wearing hand-me downs, eating buffalo tar tar, etc.
9. Our amazing B&B which was on Long Beach. Oceanview. Breathtaking property. Also wondering what we would get for breakfast (toast and eggs!) since it was our first time at a B&B.
10. Eating… a hungry Bibhu is an angry Bibhu, but a full Bibhu is a happy (and sometimes sleepy) Bibhu.
11. Talking about relationships – failed, successful, and lessons. If we think about it in terms of a Bollywood movie, the failed relationship only mean it’s just the beginning of a movie!

Thanks for a great time, Bibhu.. and also making me miss another person when I move to Edmonton