I've heard and thought through reasons....why do travelling sorts (like us) travel do you think?
Ive always put my own 'wanderlust' down to being a sagittarius.....I've heard people say travellers are running from things etc. I don't think that's true....not me anyway. I'm not....but it's certainly way easier to not have to deal with unreasonable people.....catch ya!!! I'm renowned for doing 'midnight runners' too....but I think that's more down to my happy go lucky nature of putting myself last until I eventually snap.
i love seeing different things. I get a really bad trapped sensation when I can't change my surroundings. The thought of remaining trapped anywhere is horrific to me. I've semi made a promise to stay in one place for 6 months soon and I quickly had to bolt off to make sure I did as much as I can do in the next few months in case I have to honour that promise. 3 months is generally about the most I can stay in one place without being totally stir crazy. No offence to peeps that like staying home...but I kind of equate them with being brain dead (That probably sounds offensive to people who like sitting in one place lol)
Why do you travel?
Lancelot Link said
01:49 AM Feb 13, 2017
Me, I retired, had some serious issues with the retirement. I want find my new place! It is simple, travelling to find somewhere that fits me and rather than I fit it! As soon as I unburden myself with the ties to this house, I am going to find where I belong. I have no idea where that is and probably will go through the same issues you are going through. At the moment, I am a stay at home, feeling much the same as you, want to go, but being a Virgo, I have to have everything clean before I go. The commitment issue is over for me and therefore I am open to new commitments and they will be on my terms, it is my turn to shine!
NannyJam said
02:44 AM Feb 13, 2017
Oh my gosh, Lancelot Link - I had to read your post twice to make sure *I* hadn't written it! Even the point about being a Virgo... spoooooky! haha!
Desert Dweller said
05:37 AM Feb 13, 2017
We've been photographing Australian wildlife & flora since the 80's, it's our WHAT DRIVES US TO TRAVEL. We're with Birdlife Australia, it's a lifelong interest.
We enjoy lots of other things like fishing, history, yabbying, wineries & dining out on our travels as well. We're not bored with our retirement! Each to their own.
Lot's of people enjoy camping in the one spot for a long time, good on ém.
Fringe Dweller said
07:31 AM Feb 13, 2017
we moved every couple of years when I was a kid , a lot of the old "bush mills" were closing down.
I joined the Navy . Got out of the Navy & drove Interstate semi's for 45yrs . ne place that I was at for
12yrs . Nicknamed me "Th tourist". Not for the deliveries I made . Yes I used to do a lot of "milkruns".
When the DMT , DMR then later "truckalisers" I would go around them , when they first put the pad in at Cobar.
I went from Bourke to Willcania , if Sth Merbein was open , I went through Wentworth & Lake Victoria to Renmark.
Once they had a "Road block" at Broken Hill . I went from Little Topar to Lake Memindie Rd then back through Lake
Tandau to Wentworth , then west. Was I overloaded . NO . Was my log book dodgy . No . Did my truck need repair . NO.
Y . It was a game to me . If they wanted me . They HAD to come & get me.
Some of you already know their attitude . THEY Are the inspector . They Are right . What would you know.
Yes . I have travelled on a lot of dirt roads going around them . But instead of just going Through some towns . I started to
look around em . As I said in a post for Wollomombie gorge . Yes you can get a caravan/big rig there . As I have been there in a semi.
Yes I'm a Pisces.
Hey Jim said
08:40 AM Feb 13, 2017
Ours is the Bucket list. + I go where The fish are.
Grubbygypsy said
09:09 AM Feb 13, 2017
Hehe I meant people that stay at home that want to be there. Happy to be sitting on the one place. I just can't comprehend it.
I am looking for a block too (not even a house - way too binding) LL, I think I'll know it when it jumps out. It'll have to feel like I would be happy to stay there (sometimes).
When I was managing the park up north DD we had a bloke come through and sit for weeks in pursuit of the rainbow pitta. We had quite a few on our creek. He's got websites and books. I'll need to remember his surname.
I was married to a truck driver that I hazard a guess has pretty much spent his entire life (even as a baby) on the road. It sort of a different kind of travel I guess. Not everyone could do the job. You'd have to like being on the move.
I guess I got to thinking about it after I watched hat movie 'Tracks' the other day and I was speaking with my mum and was talking about how awesome a journey it would be. I said "I don't know, I must be different than other people" and she came back with a very strong "yes, you are!!" Lol. I think that journey would be the most awesome thing in the world to be out there looking at that part of the country in so much detail (I'm a bit old to do it so rough now though lol). Incidentally, mum is a stay at home sort of person. Loves it there. Hehehehe, she must have been surprised to have a wandering gypsy for a child. At 3 or 4 I wanted to go over the hills to see what it looked like in the other side lol.
Ron-D said
01:04 PM Feb 13, 2017
I have a nice home in a good area close to family and friends, but being on the road travelling around this great country and chasing fish Jim keeps us on the road about four months of the year,home and camping is for us I reckon that's the best of both worlds so as to speak...
Desert Dweller said
01:25 PM Feb 13, 2017
Ron-D wrote:
I have a nice home in a good area close to family and friends, but being on the road travelling around this great country and chasing fish Jim keeps us on the road about four months of the year,home and camping is for us I reckon that's the best of both worlds so as to speak...
We're with you. We spend around 6 months per year away camping. There's nothing like coming back to your own home. Ours is right next to Port Phillip Bay. Ideal!
Hey Jim said
02:50 PM Feb 13, 2017
Grubbygypsy wrote:
Hehe I meant people that stay at home that want to be there. Happy to be sitting on the one place. I just can't comprehend it. I am looking for a block too (not even a house - way too binding) LL, I think I'll know it when it jumps out. It'll have to feel like I would be happy to stay there (sometimes).
When I was managing the park up north DD we had a bloke come through and sit for weeks in pursuit of the rainbow pitta. We had quite a few on our creek. He's got websites and books. I'll need to remember his surname.
I was married to a truck driver that I hazard a guess has pretty much spent his entire life (even as a baby) on the road. It sort of a different kind of travel I guess. Not everyone could do the job. You'd have to like being on the move.
I guess I got to thinking about it after I watched hat movie 'Tracks' the other day and I was speaking with my mum and was talking about how awesome a journey it would be. I said "I don't know, I must be different than other people" and she came back with a very strong "yes, you are!!" Lol. I think that journey would be the most awesome thing in the world to be out there looking at that part of the country in so much detail (I'm a bit old to do it so rough now though lol). Incidentally, mum is a stay at home sort of person. Loves it there. Hehehehe, she must have been surprised to have a wandering gypsy for a child. At 3 or 4 I wanted to go over the hills to see what it looked like in the other side lol.
Hi Grubbygypsy,
We the same as Ron D & DD,
We moved house six times as a kid with 8 older siblings back then. My mum past away when I was just a kid at 12. My father remarried and had a further 5 children.
I left school to early, My father said I did not need an education cause he left in the third grade and made a life for himself.
They all called me Dumb Jimmy. I hated being called the same, so Much. I made my own way in life. I worked 7 days a week at two separate jobs going know where.
The best times I can remember was my mum teaching me how to Budget. I educated myself and became my own boss. I had my first home by 26.
I moved because of developers.
At 28 I fell in love with this mad Red Head and we moved again, to our present home and raised and Educated our two kids well.
Life for both of us was hard. My wife lost her mum too at a young age. We made a go of it, going without for so long.
Its our time now, we are keeping our roots and seeing our great country at the same time.
If you work long and hard, look after your family and your staff. My staff are part of our family who helped us,to build what we have today.
I only wish there were more like us. God Bless Australia.
Regards Jim
Grubbygypsy said
03:23 PM Feb 13, 2017
I know mum moved a lot when she was a kid so said she would never move her kids around. We never did. Boring lol.
My toughest times were having to be confined to houses when I had kids. 25 years of pure hell lol. I did a lot of OS travel then to keep my sanity. As soon as the youngest went....I sold the lot. Couldn't wait to be unshackled from it.
The block will be where I can retreat when I'm old/sick. It'll also be my repayment to nature whereby when I cark it'll be one of those places you can't strip....a block for kangaroos, snakes and birds to have somewhere safe to enjoy for ever.
Bruce and Bev said
10:38 PM Feb 13, 2017
ESCAPE !!........from the kids, our annoying neighbour, work, the hassles of heavy rush hour traffic, seeing new places, meeting new people and not tied to timetables or deadlines........should I continue ? LOL
Dwilz said
06:54 PM Feb 14, 2017
I had no where to be and no where to go so just trying to find some where
goldenyears said
09:19 AM Feb 17, 2017
We have worked all our lives and the key to staying alert and using the old brain cells is to enjoy new hobbies.. one of those being travel ... no matter how nice ones home is at the end of the day .. IT'S A BIG WORLD OUT THERE lets all enjoy it . DONT ALLOW YOURSELF TO GET BORED ... like minded fellow travellers I have spoken to say that its the new people they have met that makes it worthwhile ... and to realise that there's not that much difference between all of us ... a neverending search for ? is half the fun .
I also have a lovely home in a nice area which is always nice to come back to .. atleast until we get the itch again !
Use it or lose it as they say ... its all about the journey eh ! certainly better than staying home looking out the window waiting for someone to come round and say hi !!!!! being old can sometimes be a bit lonely and whilst I'm on the road I feel like I'm part of a big family .
hope that answers your question .
RosieW said
09:37 AM Feb 17, 2017
I've always wanted to travel - I have itchy feet. My Pop was the same, although he lived in one town most of his life; he would go off 'wandering' for a week or two twice a year, bushwalking locally or travelling interstate. My plan when I was younger to hit the road - then I met my husband (I was 17), settled in one place and had kids. He'd travelled, and we always planned to see Australia when we retired.
As happy as I was with my life back then, I still needed to move (camping trips, visiting family & friends), but it wasn't until the kids left home that we started planning 'the life we want'. 3 years in, and it's great!
I've heard and thought through reasons....why do travelling sorts (like us) travel do you think?
Ive always put my own 'wanderlust' down to being a sagittarius.....I've heard people say travellers are running from things etc. I don't think that's true....not me anyway. I'm not....but it's certainly way easier to not have to deal with unreasonable people.....catch ya!!! I'm renowned for doing 'midnight runners' too....but I think that's more down to my happy go lucky nature of putting myself last until I eventually snap.
i love seeing different things. I get a really bad trapped sensation when I can't change my surroundings. The thought of remaining trapped anywhere is horrific to me. I've semi made a promise to stay in one place for 6 months soon and I quickly had to bolt off to make sure I did as much as I can do in the next few months in case I have to honour that promise. 3 months is generally about the most I can stay in one place without being totally stir crazy. No offence to peeps that like staying home...but I kind of equate them with being brain dead (That probably sounds offensive to people who like sitting in one place lol)
Why do you travel?
We enjoy lots of other things like fishing, history, yabbying, wineries & dining out on our travels as well. We're not bored with our retirement! Each to their own.
Lot's of people enjoy camping in the one spot for a long time, good on ém.
we moved every couple of years when I was a kid , a lot of the old "bush mills" were closing down.
I joined the Navy . Got out of the Navy & drove Interstate semi's for 45yrs . ne place that I was at for
12yrs . Nicknamed me "Th tourist". Not for the deliveries I made . Yes I used to do a lot of "milkruns".
When the DMT , DMR then later "truckalisers" I would go around them , when they first put the pad in at Cobar.
I went from Bourke to Willcania , if Sth Merbein was open , I went through Wentworth & Lake Victoria to Renmark.
Once they had a "Road block" at Broken Hill . I went from Little Topar to Lake Memindie Rd then back through Lake
Tandau to Wentworth , then west. Was I overloaded . NO . Was my log book dodgy . No . Did my truck need repair . NO.
Y . It was a game to me . If they wanted me . They HAD to come & get me.
Some of you already know their attitude . THEY Are the inspector . They Are right . What would you know.
Yes . I have travelled on a lot of dirt roads going around them . But instead of just going Through some towns . I started to
look around em . As I said in a post for Wollomombie gorge . Yes you can get a caravan/big rig there . As I have been there in a semi.
Yes I'm a Pisces.
Ours is the Bucket list. + I go where The fish are.
I am looking for a block too (not even a house - way too binding) LL, I think I'll know it when it jumps out. It'll have to feel like I would be happy to stay there (sometimes).
When I was managing the park up north DD we had a bloke come through and sit for weeks in pursuit of the rainbow pitta. We had quite a few on our creek. He's got websites and books. I'll need to remember his surname.
I was married to a truck driver that I hazard a guess has pretty much spent his entire life (even as a baby) on the road. It sort of a different kind of travel I guess. Not everyone could do the job. You'd have to like being on the move.
I guess I got to thinking about it after I watched hat movie 'Tracks' the other day and I was speaking with my mum and was talking about how awesome a journey it would be. I said "I don't know, I must be different than other people" and she came back with a very strong "yes, you are!!" Lol. I think that journey would be the most awesome thing in the world to be out there looking at that part of the country in so much detail (I'm a bit old to do it so rough now though lol). Incidentally, mum is a stay at home sort of person. Loves it there. Hehehehe, she must have been surprised to have a wandering gypsy for a child. At 3 or 4 I wanted to go over the hills to see what it looked like in the other side lol.
I have a nice home in a good area close to family and friends, but being on the road travelling around this great country and chasing fish Jim
keeps us on the road about four months of the year,home and camping is for us I reckon that's the best of both worlds so as to speak...
We're with you. We spend around 6 months per year away camping. There's nothing like coming back to your own home. Ours is right next to Port Phillip Bay. Ideal!
Hi Grubbygypsy,
We the same as Ron D & DD,
We moved house six times as a kid with 8 older siblings back then. My mum past away when I was just a kid at 12. My father remarried and had a further 5 children.
I left school to early, My father said I did not need an education cause he left in the third grade and made a life for himself.
They all called me Dumb Jimmy. I hated being called the same, so Much. I made my own way in life. I worked 7 days a week at two separate jobs going know where.
The best times I can remember was my mum teaching me how to Budget. I educated myself and became my own boss. I had my first home by 26.
I moved because of developers.
At 28 I fell in love with this mad Red Head and we moved again, to our present home and raised and Educated our two kids well.
Life for both of us was hard. My wife lost her mum too at a young age. We made a go of it, going without for so long.
Its our time now, we are keeping our roots and seeing our great country at the same time.
If you work long and hard, look after your family and your staff. My staff are part of our family who helped us,to build what we have today.
I only wish there were more like us. God Bless Australia.
Regards Jim
My toughest times were having to be confined to houses when I had kids. 25 years of pure hell lol. I did a lot of OS travel then to keep my sanity. As soon as the youngest went....I sold the lot. Couldn't wait to be unshackled from it.
The block will be where I can retreat when I'm old/sick. It'll also be my repayment to nature whereby when I cark it'll be one of those places you can't strip....a block for kangaroos, snakes and birds to have somewhere safe to enjoy for ever.
I had no where to be and no where to go so just trying to find some where
We have worked all our lives and the key to staying alert and using the old brain cells is to enjoy new hobbies.. one of those being travel ... no matter how nice ones home is at the end of the day .. IT'S A BIG WORLD OUT THERE lets all enjoy it . DONT ALLOW YOURSELF TO GET BORED ... like minded fellow travellers I have spoken to say that its the new people they have met that makes it worthwhile ... and to realise that there's not that much difference between all of us ... a neverending search for ? is half the fun .
I also have a lovely home in a nice area which is always nice to come back to .. atleast until we get the itch again !
Use it or lose it as they say ... its all about the journey eh ! certainly better than staying home looking out the window waiting for someone to come round and say hi !!!!! being old can sometimes be a bit lonely and whilst I'm on the road I feel like I'm part of a big family .
hope that answers your question .
As happy as I was with my life back then, I still needed to move (camping trips, visiting family & friends), but it wasn't until the kids left home that we started planning 'the life we want'. 3 years in, and it's great!