The Freedom of Locs!

For a period of around 7 or 8 years, I did my best to find ways to save up and travel and least once every other year. With each trip, be it a cruise to the islands, Cancun or the sunny beaches of Florida, they all had one thing in common...the existence of my wig or weave. So here I would go getting to my destination with my cute little sarongs, colorful bathing suits and various summer wear and as soon as I would approach the beach or swimming pool, I had to dress down like a tomboy because I was gettin' in that water! But that meant I either had to wear a bandanna and bob around to not wet my tracks or take off the wig and put on a cap or wrap of some kind. I was constantly in disguise.
When I was blessed with an opportunity to go to Hawaii however, I had just had my weave for a little over a year and man oh man, was my trip altogether different. I would wake up, put on my cute outfits, take to walking around and make my way to the beach and that was the real test. When I could lay on my towel, get up and run to the water and jump in? Wow! It was like, so this is VACATION?! No inhibitions, just like all the other happy tourists around me. I didn't have to protect my doo because it was what it was...natural.