Hail to the hive!
Today is the last day I'll be able to have my morning coffee and work from my usual spot. It's being torn down today and the whole bar is being removed. Feels weird. For seven years I've been in this spot surveying all that happens in the dive shop. It was the perfect vantage point and enabled me to watch almost the entire operation and be able to spot problems before they happened and intervene.
In a way it will help deprogram myself and help me start to wash off the old routine before I depart and leave the philippines in a few months. You don't realise what a creature of habit you've become until the routine change is forced upon you.
Arriving at the dive shop tomorrow will be the weirdest feeling as all that was once so familiar will be gone. My morning opening up routine will be completely shattered. I think tomorrow will be a coffee and cheesecake morning. I will need to give myself a lift.
So I'll sip away at my coffee on my little perch for the last time now and remember all the good times I've had at the bar and all the people that have shared them with me.......