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OT - Travelling Light

arfie
arfie
My wandering urges are surging again. Big surprise for the folks who know me. NOT. Spring has sprung. I haven't had a functional field expedition since last summer. The "Music Capital of The World" is feeling like a gigantic gypsy trap again. Again? Really, it has been a decade or two, maybe three since I have returned here without feeling the dread of entrapment. Insert old english folk tune here. "Looks like I'm never gonna lose my wandering ways." But. . . The family bonds with two middle-aged sons, their significant others and the old geezer who loves them as much as I do are a tug strong enough to pull from very long distances. Sigh. Pick my poison time?

Hubs is on vacation this week. The agenda for the morning is to pack up my toolbox (the literal engineer's one with "Mom's Purse - and she knows how to swing it" painted on the lid) and the two GKs who have been with us since Friday afternoon and head to their house to hang a TV Mom and Dad bought with their tax refund. A wonderfully well balanced family evolution. I am thanking the cosmos for this moment of peace.

So why are my morning meditations filled with dreams of putting on my backpack and walking shoes? Old english folk tune or PTSD self-sabotage?

Maybe I should do something about the duct tape fixes on the hippie truck (hatchback) that I have been using for my field research since I got back from Ecuador in 2008. I CAN walk all the way to the Mississippi River Valley, but my support dog prefers her road throne. The hippie truck works well for domestic errands, as well.
cheesecake88
cheesecake88
Short road trip maybe, for your dog and you?? It sounds like a good thing, especially if it makes you feel good. This is no comparison, but there are laundry facilities in the building right next to me, where I live... box room, gossipy chit chat...so I hop the bus instead, and go over 3 miles away to a laundry...why?..it is across the street from the ocean...worth every mile to feel the sea breeze and lift my anxiety some...my new get away! Hope you find a new getaway arfie. Hugs and Support
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Spring has sprung. Enjoy wandering. I will. I booked 3 short trips to the big city nearby in June and 1 visit across country to best friend. His wife has PTSD & is always good for some great therapeutic discussions.
arfie
arfie
Oooh oooh. . . An ocean view while letting the machines do their job? I'm in. Worth the extra commute, and then some, even with the inconvenience of my saltwater allergy. I consider it a cosmic injustice that my skin starts itching within 10 miles of the coast. Thank God for the National Geographic channel. Not the same as the endless sky over the ocean tides, but. . . I takes what I can get.

I have been short road tripping in Texas for 30 odd years. Long time for a wandering fool. I no longer need a road map to navigate the entire state. From the heart of Texas, where I live, just getting to the state line is a day trip in itself. I am achingly tired of the boom stresses. The entire state has grown a world league traffic gridlock and is still booming. Progress is as good a name for it as any.

Grumble, grumble, gripe, gripe. . . How 'bout them Cowboys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLoYFvbR0XY
looney1
looney1
I'm currently sitting in a mobile home on a riverside with my two dogs. It hasn't worked out real well living with my daughter and I am enjoying the peace and solitude. Unfortunately winter is looming and I am also expected to socialise with the owner and friends too much. No power but I do have water. Right here right now I am feeling ok. Hope you can do a trip soon Arfie. I call it renewal.
cheesecake88
cheesecake88
Well my adventures in laundry at the ocean continued....blue sky,blue ocean, good lunch, then woah...an open wallet sitting by it's lonesome on top of the change machine...no one around and cash hanging out...cell phone has no connection that close to the ocean, waited an hour with the wallet safe in my pocket, no one showed up, left a note on top of change machine " important property found, person's name, will be left at city police dept....so caught the bus back home and called the police...they picked it up and last evening police came back and handed me an envelope...reward money!!!!..and a thank you note...nice gesture....but here I was trying to get away from the gossip, and I can hear it now...why were the cops at cheese's door twice?? Adventures, adventures..."sigh"

Arfie love Roy and Trigger...thanks...and muji and loo, I hear you about theraputic trips and renewell...Hugs to that!
arfie
arfie
Turning something as tedious as laundry into such an adventure. Not THAT's creative living.

As far as avoiding gossip. . . The people who matter don't mind. The people who mind don't matter.

I love teasing gossips. It is the funnest part of staying in one place. Been known to tease something like turning a found item over to the police into. . . Well. . . You are safer not knowing. ^^sinister lift of the eyebrow^^

My house has a reputation the local gang lords don't challenge. Gooder 'n' minimum wage rent-a-cops at a gated community entrance.
bluedragon41
bluedragon41
Do an image search..." Flower garden banks marine sanctuary.".

It's a day's boat trip south of Galveston, apparently one of the nicest reefs in the world.
Might be worth slathering up with hydrocortisone and caladryl.
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