A sentence I just read in a book got me thinking.....
I agree with just about everything that has been said. So getting down to the real realities, has any one had an experience with the Primus Lightweight Camping toilet? I have decided that a comfortable toilet seat is vital to our intended sometime in the future when we've sold our house tandem trip. I googled camping toilet and up came the funniest article unfortunately it wasn't on travelblog so I felt a bit disloyal. I know this is a bit basic and not very uplifting for the soul,
but bodily comfort is quite a reality at 60+! Ideally ,I would like to tow my own portaloo behind us but Robert has pointed out we wouldn't get very far. As for possessions, they need vacuuming, dusting, tidying, etc, and what a waste of time! I have some treasured little things from the kids, my art stuff and my piano! Thats a bit of a problem, I like to play the piano so I'm in favour of having a small base.
Reply to this Want to hear something really sad? Growing up in farm country, the kids who had to work on the farms did not get summers off. My senior year we had a project where we had to tell the highlights of our life. I did not realize until then how blessed I had been. I had been around the country, Canada and Europe by then. Several of the got up and said something to the affect that they had gotten to go to Billings, MT a couple of times. Yeah, my jaw hit the floor.
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Actually, I got it wrong, Its a primus lightweight portable seat, and this is the address of the blog I read (feeling most disloyal)!
Dymphna, I live in rural North Norfolk, (England) and I know people who hate leaving Norfolk! My next door neighbour has five children, she and her partner work incredibly hard, and have only managed to afford about 3 short breaks in Britain in about 20 years. I have produced a family of travelers, but I have only been abroad 3 times in my nearly 62 years! (unless Scotland counts as separate country, I've been there so many times I've lost count! Robert is a Scotsman)
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Scotland counts---
Yes, indeed you have produced some travelers. Maybe you should wander around to visit them.
Reply to this D and M J, you will be in Roberts good books forever though Scotland hasn't yet achieved true independence from the terrible English!
Re travel unfortunately no spare money till the house is sold!
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Reply to this abso-freakin-lutely!!!! I couldnt have said it any better. traveling is learning to me, who doesnt want to learn new things all the time
Reply to this It's all reality.
My year of traveling was definitely a different reality compared to working 50hr weeks and living a more regular/structured life.
I think the criticism is that long term traveling is viewed as an escape. That may be the case in some instances...but it's still reality...just a different part of it.
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IN the bungling and bellicosity that constitute the back and forth of
history, worsened by natural disasters and unprovoked cruelty, humble
citizens pay the highest price. To be a traveler in such circumstances
can be inconvenient at best, fatal at worst. But if the traveler manages
to breeze past such unpleasantness on tiny feet, he or she is able to
return home to report: “I was there. I saw it all.” The traveler’s
boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an
eyewitness, and invariably this experience — shocking though it may seem
at the time — is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the
life-altering trophies of the road.
Windz
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Reply to this How do you first define a long term traveller? Is taking a 6 month/1 year/3 years trip admit you in a club of "long term" traveller? I don't think so.
Time is just something we quantify with our own perceptions. Being on the road one year and than settle "for life" does qualify you for a "change of a life time experience"?
After living most of my life away from the country from which I hold a passport. I do consider the only valid definition of long term travel as the one which involve leaving you own roots for years...and most important, making sure you keep moving with the years.
This could make you somebody "without a proper home base". This is what is happening to long term expats, moving from country to country through the years.
I may shock some, but there is actually an "expat culture" of this human species moving from place to place. They grow their own rules, they own culture...no link to a place, takig the best of any place, and giving everybody the feeling they are home everywhere...should we call them the global modern nomad? Nothing new or modern in it.
The simple rule, you find your own pairs with those you share the same values. Today, being a truly "long term traveller" simply means you refer your roots not to places, but to people you relate.
There is nothing new in this...it's just about friends and family at the end of the day...
My own little experience...irrelevant...I'm curious to what will be the answer of my children to this in 15 years...
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