Sleeping under the Stars in Baja
(Part one) By Dennis Quon

In the stillness of the night, I take my first step up the unlit stairs heading towards my favorite spot of the house. My headgear lights a spot onto the staircase as I wander upward towards the deck that opens onto a wide screen view of the star filled sky. Earlier in the day, we planned our sleeping quarters for this purpose.

I lay down totally cocoon within my sleeping bag while glazing with wonderment towards the cluster filled stars. In the distance, I hear the rattling noise of my best buddy, the Baja guide “Sardine”, making his way up. Noisily, he gets his things right for the night and then he settles down. I open the conversation with, Wow! What a day buddy. He fills his reply with peaceful words of joy, (it’s almost the ending of a his birthday) as we flash back into the day’s events with laughter. Like the true Baja guide he is, he waits until I finish my long-winded thoughts of the cosmos and without hesitation but with skilled timing, he points his powerful searchlightheadgear onto my darken face, blinding me without mercy.

Our chuckles fill the warm silent breeze that whispers away any thoughts of retaliation from yours truly. We chat for a while about the days’ events until I bring up the subject of the beautiful night sky that gleams before us again. Our conversations drift in-between the shooting stars and the high flying planes that blink their red and white warning lights as they quickly pass away from our thoughts. I look into the binoculars, each star glistening of untold stories, shining its’ long awaited twinkles into my awaiting eyes. Wanting more, I skim the night’s canvas with slower but more delicate movements hoping to fill my spiritual thoughts full. These Majestic nights by the Sea of Cortez seems to tap the mystical dreams of ancient lands that flicker upon the sleeping. Slowly the repealing chants of the soft voiced sea transcends away like a Mozart sonata, casting its wake into the dreamscape world…

The awesome presents of our Universe beckons each viewer who happens upon the land of Baja, the unmistakable enchanted encounters of beauty and calm.

Dennis Quon
www.polyfoamworkshop.com
Polyfoamworkshop@yahoo.com