I HAVE WONDERED about the heightened energy and awareness that I experience when adventuring over land and sea. It feels like a muscle that I don’t use until I’m exposed. And the muscle grows stronger, the longer I’m out there, no matter the challenges of terrain or weather.
When I return to the “safety” of level floors within the sedate indoors, I long for the wild, the unpredictable, the resurgence of a state-of-being, when I realized my egoless place in the universe, and possessed the wherewithal, the muscle, to explore its beauty even in the midst of chaos.
Great Testimony Susan! !! I Loved it.
You put I to words how I have felt traveling, part of me wants that home-based safety net, closeness to family if things were to go wrong. You pave the way for many as other women do to empower women on their own journey whatever that may look like fr them.
Thank you Susan, for validating what I feel as well. Lizzy expressed my similar feelings – sometimes wanting the regularity and security of a house with family near by – but then the wanderlust kicks in and I just want to go – away – anywhere, – just be rolling again. Now I am 82, and probably will have to stay put for my last days but I am so grateful for the freedom I have had.
A blogger I read has a motto “Don’t wait – do it now!”
Well Pam, I am just turning 88 & I am blessed to have both…an apartment & a camper van ( bug out van) so I can take off at a moments notice. A Dodge Grand Caravan w/stow & go seats all folded in the floor. Have nothing built in & equipped w/a cot, memory foam mattress, folding toilet, freeze dried food, solar kettle, 3 drawer chest for hygiene care products & Sawyer water filter. You can do it girl!!
Beautiful!
Beautifully said, as always.
Wonderful and relatable. My return to “level floors within the sedate indoors” always results in sore muscles and emotional atrophy.