Imagine if we could travel the world and stay as long as we wanted in any country we chose to stay in. Just forget about a calendar, and politics and wander across borders and through towns and out into the wild. No paperwork or begging to stay.
It seems that passports came into being around the 1920’s but what about visas? I need to go back and check.
But I have a feeling I want to get out into the wilderness and get lost for a while. Do you ever get those feelings?
Hugo travels on his mower. Here is he doing the round up. We let the kunekune out in the morning so they can go out and rummage about in the havested maize field. After a few hours Hugo goes out on the mower and brings them back in. I just walk. But when they hear the mower they know it is time to start trotting in, so it works. I am hoping that this will help bring some of the weight off Tima. She always roams far from home. Tane stays within ear shot. But he is not a fat pig. And yesterday the fog was so thick we could not see them at all. All I could hear was the mower, putting slowly back.
Good morning. I hope you have a lovely day. Our day has dawned fine and calm again.
I think this is our Gypsy summer. A week of warm to finish up.
Maybe I am not looking forward to the cold this winter. Usually I view it as a challenge. I am sure I will again soon.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love your friend
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
36 responses to “An open world”
When I was in college, a friend, the child of unpleasant divorce, used to say “You should never have more than you can fit in your car”. It doesn’t sound like such a bad idea as we get older…the problem being that the pet crates and pet themselves do take up a good part of any car when we have to evacuate for hurricanes.
Rick Steves the travel guy on PBS tells people to only bring a backpack for tours. (And all I can hear is my mom insisting on the necessity of clean under garments…and my worry of washing clean by hand). But this concept of lightly traveling is one reason I push anyone young to travel as far and as much as they can – when it is so much easier to do without.
We’ve fog, too for days. Certainly was hoping for a couple of days of sun before the next batch of rainy days starting tomorrow – and a real cold frint next week. It looks like a mud winter ahead.
Enjoy the day, C – love the last picture!
Yes, no borders or restrictions, the gypsy way! I’m at that stage at the moment, wondering around with no agenda. I do have a wedding of one son in January and the birth of a second grandchild in February, to my oldest son’s wife, so those things will keep me close to shore. The fog hides things and then opens up in front of you sometimes for a nice surprise. You’re well prepared. Winter will be a quiet rest. Enjoy your day.
I like the idea of the gypsy summer vs the autumn summer. I’ve moved 35 times in my life and traveled not as much as I’d like.. My gypsy days are over now but I too would like to travel the world and move freely without the need of documentation. We have fog this time of year too. It’s great if you don’t have to travel in it. Tima, the vagabond. Who would have thought it. 🙂 Have a lovely day.
Oh to travel and roam unrestrictedly – heaven. Right now I would head off to somewhere cool and rainy. We have had a month of temperatures around 39*C/105F and no rain. We now have water restrictions because of the drought conditions, miserable. Laura
I hate the drought years. They remind us that we are visitors on top of a demanding earth.. c
That feeling of wanting to get lost has been driving me for a while… no deadlines or watching the clock… to explore the country and walk on endless beaches.
Hugo on the mower is a ‘boy thing’ I think, males love anything with a motor 🙂
Oh yes!! He sure is a bloke this one.. c
This lovely posting of yours, Celi, brought to my mind the story of the elderly man, no longer driving, wanting to visit his elderly sick brother and traveled on his riding mower to see him. I see that it’s been made into a movie. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Straight_Story Lots of love, Gayle
Yes that is a lovely old movie..
I so love the way you think, the way you write.
There are days when I would like to walk out, turn the key in my door, tell nobody… then wander the world where the mood takes me. I am fortunate to be able to drive two miles in any direction and be surrounded by green fields. This year we have a late/ Indian or as you call it a Gypsy summer. Mind you the air is changing and it is time to sort out the winter wardrobe of layers, ski tube socks, gloves and this year I will add hats ( I am in a beret making mood at the moment and on number three,) Yesterday I took a friend over the hills to a neighbouring town to change some knitwear. We were covered in a blanket of fog all day. The fields were mainly of sheep, but the cows and horses are disappearing indoors for the winter. I was kinda quietly annoyed at the number of drivers travelling, some at speed, without using any lights. Don’t they know they are a danger in foggy conditions? Saving the lights for Christmas will be of no use if they end up as victims of road accidents, I just hope they take nobody with them.
I am not a great church goer, but sitting alone in a field listening to nature’s chorus, observing the animals or watching small children lost in their own world of play on a beach, certainly stills my soul.
May the winter be kind and gentle for all of us this year. ‘Prepare for the worst, and hope for the best’ is my motto and it worked extremely well for my eye surgery.
I remember those days and weeks of bracing for the cold and blustery northern winters. Living in the south now, it’s so much easier to prepare, and even if it does get brutal, it never lasts as long here as it did up north. I’m a little like Tima I guess… my legs often take me further from home than I mean to venture. 🙂
Yes! Fortunately, I live near a state park and a couple city parks–though they tend to be a bit busier. The trails in the state park, especially the longer and more challenging ones are less traveled.