My husband and I went through a similar shedding in 2013 when we looked around at our rented house filled with stuff we didn’t need or want, and said let’s get rid of it all and leave. Since then we’ve been housesitting, doing work for accommodation exchanges, backpacking, and it has been a transformative time. We’d really like a small, simple home to be still in now though. That only has just what we need in it.
Peaceful is good. I hope you are happy there. We’ve just pot planted ourselves for about 18 months in a friend’s annex in rural north Devon while we wait for my Irish passport application to be processed so we can go live somewhere affordable in the EU. Will see what unfolds in that time as life is unpredictable!
Would you characterize your change as healing from injury of a modern world? To make such a drastic change I would think you have to feel that much of what you previously did wasn't good for you, in body or soul.
My husband and I went through a similar shedding in 2013 when we looked around at our rented house filled with stuff we didn’t need or want, and said let’s get rid of it all and leave. Since then we’ve been housesitting, doing work for accommodation exchanges, backpacking, and it has been a transformative time. We’d really like a small, simple home to be still in now though. That only has just what we need in it.
Yes, I just landed in a spot and at 60 have decided to remain planted.
That’s great. Where are you planting yourself?
Fort Collins, Colorado. Travel + Leisure Magazine recently rated it the most peaceful city in the U.S.
Peaceful is good. I hope you are happy there. We’ve just pot planted ourselves for about 18 months in a friend’s annex in rural north Devon while we wait for my Irish passport application to be processed so we can go live somewhere affordable in the EU. Will see what unfolds in that time as life is unpredictable!
fascinating...twelve years is a long time...it's a real lifestyle now...
It’s been quite the odyssey
A wise man once said, "What you own ends up owning you."
Your experiences seem to confirm this truism.
That’s it! That’s the way.
Would you characterize your change as healing from injury of a modern world? To make such a drastic change I would think you have to feel that much of what you previously did wasn't good for you, in body or soul.
True. For sure.