🌿 Dispatches from the Jungle 🌿

A Queer Expat Blog for the Bold, the Curious, and the Deeply Alive

Welcome to Dispatches from the Jungle — a lifestyle blog at the intersection of queer identity, creative freedom, and midlife reinvention. I’m Waymon Hudson: a late-deafened writer, Broadway musical creator, and marketing futurist living loud in the jungles of Costa Rica.

This isn’t just a blog. It’s a digital campfire — a place for stories about joy, grief, surf sessions, messy growth, and gorgeous resistance. Whether I’m writing about life as a queer expat, the behind-the-scenes of building a Broadway show, or what it’s like to rewire your life at 45, you’ll find it all here. Raw, real, and radically hopeful.

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🌈 LGBTQ+ life in Costa Rica and beyond

📖 Memoir-style reflections on healing, identity & reinvention

🧠 Marketing insights and brand storytelling with soul

🏄 Jungle living, dogs, and imperfect adventures

✨ The creative chaos of art, activism, and starting over

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🌟 Featured Posts🌟

Meet the Characters of Speakeasy: A New Broadway Musical 🎭✨

Speakeasy: A New Musical brings the hidden queer history of 1920s speakeasies to life with a bold Broadway vision. Packed with jazz-fueled rebellion, forbidden love, and found family, this new Broadway musical reimagines Romeo & Juliet in a dazzling underground world where resistance, identity, and joy collide.

Swimming under El Pavón waterfall in Costa Rica — jungle plunge pool meets queer joy in the tropics.

Moving to Costa Rica: Why I Chose Here Out of Anywhere in the World

Costa Rica wasn’t my escape. It was my alignment — a country that chose peace, protects nature like it’s Beyoncé, and lets me live openly as a queer expat. If you’ve ever wondered ‘Could I move to Costa Rica?’ …this is your sign.

Queer man standing shirtless at the base of a lush Costa Rican waterfall, surrounded by jungle — symbolizing queer freedom, anti-hustle living, and expat joy.

The Anti-Hustle Queer Expat Life: How I Left Burnout Behind and Found Joy in the Jungle

After burnout, political exhaustion, and being harassed for being gay, I left the U.S. and moved to Costa Rica. I didn’t quit working — I quit the grind. What I found was queer joy, jungle stillness, rescued dogs, and a life that finally made space for me to breathe, create, and be fully myself.

💡 Creative Work & Process

Go behind the scenes of big ideas — from writing a Broadway musical to building a personal brand. These posts unpack storytelling, artistic process, and the messy, magical journey of making something that matters.

Meet the Characters of Speakeasy: A New Broadway Musical 🎭✨

Speakeasy: A New Musical brings the hidden queer history of 1920s speakeasies to life with a bold Broadway vision. Packed with jazz-fueled rebellion, forbidden love, and found family, this new Broadway musical reimagines Romeo & Juliet in a dazzling underground world where resistance, identity, and joy collide.

📚 Memoir & Identity

Waymon Hudson

12 hours ago3 min read

Back view of a man with short hair and a visible hearing aid, wearing a blue plaid shirt.

🧠 Yes, I’m Deaf. Yes, I’m a Communications Professional. No, It’s Not a Paradox.

I’m a communications executive. And I’m Deaf. And no, this isn’t a paradox. Communication is not about sound. It’s about presence. Intention. Story. Emotional accuracy. It’s about making people feel heard — not just heard by you. It’s just a different way of listening.

💡 Creative Work & Process

Waymon Hudson

Jul 242 min read

From Corporate Strategy to Broadway Scores: Thriving as a Queer Multi-Hyphenate Creative

Marketing exec by day, Broadway writer by night. I don’t juggle roles — I braid them. This is what being a multi-hyphenate looks like.

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Expat Life

Waymon Hudson

Jul 193 min read

🎭 What if Romeo & Juliet Fell in Love in a 1920s Queer Speakeasy?

What if Romeo & Juliet fell in love in a queer speakeasy during Prohibition? Speakeasy is my jazz-drenched, emotionally charged musical about love, rebellion, and found family in 1920s Chicago. It’s bold, defiant, and unapologetically queer — with a score that swings and a story that roars.

🎭 Broadway & Musical Storytelling

Waymon Hudson

Jul 176 min read

The Anti-Hustle Queer Expat Life: How I Left Burnout Behind and Found Joy in the Jungle

After burnout, political exhaustion, and being harassed for being gay, I left the U.S. and moved to Costa Rica. I didn’t quit working — I quit the grind. What I found was queer joy, jungle stillness, rescued dogs, and a life that finally made space for me to breathe, create, and be fully myself.

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Expat Life

Waymon Hudson

Jul 113 min read