Gerjon.

It was early in the morning; the weather conditions were frosty but fresh, the skies looked as though they had been painted with a paintbrush, they were strokes of dark grey, white, navy and light blue, there were a variety of different flocks of birds flying in the sky in addition to countless airplane contrails.

I was up in the early hours as always thus I decided to go to the beach with the dog and take some pictures before doing some yoga practice.

The dog and I had been walking for about eleven minutes when a man appeared from nowhere as the dog was taking a poo on a pile of leaves by a humongous tree.  The man started to talk to me, I could not hear him as I was listening to music, I took my headphones off to ask him what he had said and our conversation took off from there.

The man asked me if I would like to smoke some pot with him, absolutely I responded.  From his beard he pulled out two pre rolled joints, he gave one to me and kept the other for himself, he gave me a lighter, I lit the joint and began to smoke, the man then did the same. He had an accent that I could tell was not Canadian, I asked the man where he was from, Europe he responded, I asked him to be a little more precise, Hungary not hungry he said. I asked his name, Gerjon. Gerjon asked me how near Quebec was to Hungary, I told him not very near at all, exactly he gasped, he could not understand how he had been named the name he had been named, he asked my name and I told him. Still smoking and conversing he told me he was Jewish and I asked him of the places he had traveled, he was a hippie just going with the flow, Gerjon had been to Guatemala, Mumbai, Mombasa, lets just say he was well traveled, I love to meet other travelers and hear of their stories, they usually tell me of cool places to go to that they had fallen in love with on their travels, whether it be somewhere in the Amazon or a coffee shop in Istanbul. After conversing for a while my face began to freeze and the dog was pulling at my leg asking me if we could hurry up and get to the beach, I said goodbye to Gerjon, I am positive him and I will meet for an early morning joint some other time. I was nicely stoned for the rest of my walk and more in the zone to take pictures, besides yoga is always more pleasurable when I am stoned.