I have to say I’m a bit old fashioned, but after visiting another place for a couple of days, there’s no place like home.
We just spent five days camping with two of our best friends and 3 dogs, and, except for the huge thunderstorm that came through last night, it was a great time.
But I am now home, bags and coolers unpacked, and I’m loving digging down into my comfy sofa. Last week I was bored sitting on this same sofa.
Aren’t we all just the funniest things?
We love where we are, we long to be someplace else. We make our surroundings as comfortable and magical as we can, yet we dream of experiencing the magic of other places, other experiences.
It’s like we’re happy we ordered lasagna but wish we would have ordered someone else’s steak too.
I think it’s so important to explore other worlds, other foods, other experiences. It doesn’t matter if you can’t actually go to the places you dream about — you can still take that next step and explore it your way. Cook a cuisine you’ve always wondered about; take a virtual tour of your dream vacation; read a book written by someone who sat right in the middle of your travel destination.
At the moment I’m watching Forged in Fire, a reality TV series on the History Channel where bladesmiths make and test bladed weapons. There have been some fine and amazing swords, knives, and other bladed weapons made on that show… a creative world I know nothing about. But it’s so fun to watch artists who DO know about it!
I encourage you to try new recipes, new forms of poetry, and new creative skills. Let me know what you’ve explored, what you’ve enjoyed, what you’ll never try again.
As I always say, life’s too short.
Don’t waste it digging too far into your sofa.
Humoring the Goddess 
I love trying new recipes. I just recently made preserved lemons as we have so many here. After a month of fermenting, they are ready so I made Moroccan Vegetable Stew, which included them. It was so good and I felt like I was in Morocco!
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Oh oh! Let me know how the Moroccan Stew goes! I love trying new recipes, and fortunately my husband goes along with me on most journeys. I just found a recipe for Moroccan Chicken I want to try — all the spices! I’ve never had nor made it, but it sounds exciting and exotic, so I’m going to give it a whirl. I wish I could go to Morocco too — you’ve been? All that it seems to be?
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I haven’t been to Morocco yet. The veggie stew was amazing, and I’m having the leftovers tonight.
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Too bad I can’t join you for dinner!
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How fun you went camping! I kind of hate camping and will probably never go again. 🙂 My idea of camping is staying in the lodge at the state park. LOL!
I don’t know that travels are in my future. I do love blog posts from others who travel. I guess I live vicariously through them. I do like day trips throughout the state though. I’m off on an adventure today to a 50,000 square foot antique mall. I suppose I’ll see a lot of cool and fun stuff there!
However, I’m working on a passport so I can get back to Niagara Falls – the Canadian side. Too bad I didn’t get there this year in time for the tulips.
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Our camping consists of a small trailer — big enough for two, not big enough for two AND 2 dogs — but also wine and snacks around the fire, sitting and rehashing past experiences, and trying to live in the moment. I’m not a long walker or a big cleaner, so camping chores are minimal, too. I think a 50,000 feet shopping mall is just as crazy and fun as anything else you could do! Get that passport — you might be surprised on where it can take you!!
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Wine and snacks around the fire sound wonderful! I’ll get the passport, and you are right! – I might be surprised one day. 🙂
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That’s, quite normal, we all want to, venture, away, and far from where we live, but, once we’re, away for a few short days, we start, missing, “home”, realizing that we have this place, to, achor us, down, to, keep us all, grounded, someplace we can call, “‘home”…
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You are so right. Where do you want to go? Or do?
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I’m traveling to Canada, for the first time, in September, to visit my Canadian cousins (3 girls); two live on Vancouver Island, and the lives in the middle of Alberta (Wainwright) … one cousin was over here 50 years ago, one was here 6 years ago, the other one I have not met … I’m going for 3 weeks, and it’ll be an incredible adventure for me, but I’m sure coming back home will be a welcoming place to be … 😍🌏✈
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I LOVE that you are follow your dreams that link to your family. Sometimes we can afford it (like my trip to Paris), sometimes we check out our dreams someplace else (I love space travel dreams… ) Let’s play and share what we find!
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I like the challenge… I appreciate the logic!
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As flighty and sideways as it seems to be? Ha! Its a wonderful world!
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I have my spacecraft, Itmims , Ivor’s Time Machine In Micro Space … and here is my favourite travel poem …
Dreams of the Heart
I cannot walk the continents
Like the intrepid Marco Polo
But my feet have felt the sands of time
Pass between my toes
I have not sailed the high seas
Like the courageous Christopher Columbus
But my body has bathed
In an ocean full of kind hearts
I am yet to fly in space
Like the brave Neil Armstrong
But I have reached for the stars
And touched my soul’s dreams
💕😍🌏
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