Model plans trip to Thailand to find tree she held onto during tsunami

[davidinalameda]

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/dailydish/

wow--I'm getting misty eyed over this

"the tree was holding you"--that's such an incredible thought and no, I'm not being sarcastic




NEMKOVA PLANS TRIP BACK TO THAILAND TO FIND PALM TREE
Czech supermodel Petra Nemkova is planning a trip back to Phuket, Thailand, to revisit the palm tree she clung to for eight hours during the South Asian tsunami disaster in December.
Almost five months after the natural disaster, during which Nemkova's boyfriend Simon Atlee was killed, the model is planning to return to the seaside resort.

She says, "My friend said that, 'You know you hold on to the tree for eight hours but actually the tree was holding you as well in some ways -- because it could let me go at any time, it could break at any time.'

"When I go back to Thailand ... I would love to plant a new palm tree for a new life for the city and find this tree which I was holding to. Hopefully I will find it. Maybe they start already building things there."

[dbonds]

1. This I find to be truely spiritual.