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Nanchang, China


Many people have a dream,which is traving everywhere.so do I.I have this good dream for many years.I want to see the sea,the blue sky ,the blue water and the sunny beach.

permalink written by  dreaming on August 3, 2009 from Nanchang, China
from the travel blog: dream
tagged Sea and Dream

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how this whole thing got started

Nampa, United States


how exactly did this whole thing get started? i'm so glad you asked. for as long as i can remember,i have had a love for living in unconventional spaces. when i went to school in california, i had the pleasure of living in an old shoeshop. i brushed my teeth in a sink in the adjoining garage. to me, this was wonderful. it was a little slice of adventure in the midst of a very busy time.

i also spent a summer living in a converted schoolbus with some friends in oregon. we parked in an old grove of apple trees in a wooded area. the tree's blossoms attracted bears which we heard singing at night on more than one occasion. i loved the rythem of rising with the sun, cooking outdoors and fine-tuning the art of improvisation. (such as "grinding" coffee beans with a hammer!) after all, the closest coffee shop was 40 miles away! the once a week trips into town for a bath, mail and supplies made me feel a bit like a pioneer. well, a pioneer who must have good coffee.

i was part of a circle of friends who enjoyed simple living and traveling on a shoestring. out of which the affectionately used term "urban-camping" was born. (traveling and sleeping in your vehicle.) i enjoyed short stints of urban-camping in my single days. at times, i met well meaning strangers on the road who assumed something terrible must have happened to me to be (gasp!) living in a car. after all, why would anyone in their right mind choose that? most cases proved futile to convince them otherwise!

now let me tell you a little about keith, my husband. years before we met, he was living, quite literally, on the beaches of key west. he often traveled without even a backpack. he ate when he found food or helped out at a local soup kitchen. he made his bed on a remote part of the beach, or a discovered cot on the roof-top of a floral shop in town. after a few years of island living, he made his way west to the redwood forest. the canopies of those beautiful giants would provide his shelter. soon after, he joined up with "jesus love you" a band of christian gypsies who caravaned on schoolbuses.

our honeymoon "suite" was a schoolbus parked at "The land" in northern caifornia. (more about that wonderful place later) we started our life together on the road, then settled for a few months at a friend's farm in tennessee. there, we stayed in ...you guessed it, a schoolbus. starting to see a pattern here? although pennyless, we dreamed of having our own home on wheels one day.

keith was a few credits shy of a degree in alternative building when he walked away from a terrible car accident. while he was fortunate to be alive, his back was quite injured. hence, until healed, carpentry was no longer a feasible vocation. how then would we fuel our travels? after some prayer,seeking and divine intervention, electrical proved to be that very thing. we buckled down for four years while keith went to school.

we saved up and eventually bought the bus of our dreams! keith graduated and passed his journeymans test. this enables him to work for himself anywhere. a month ago, he got layed off and we celebrated! while we are thankful he has had steady work, we were very excited to start that long awaited next chapter. it was time to put our energy into the bus.

while we are very busy with all the preparations, i write. for me this is an essential part of readying my spirit and mind for what is to come. maybe you have no desire to be an urban camper. that's ok. whoever you are, you have a dream. i hope in some small way this will inspire you to go after it!

permalink written by  firebynite on July 28, 2010 from Nampa, United States
from the travel blog: super vegi-matic bus travels
tagged Dream, Schoolbus and UrbanCamping

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My round trip dream

Frankfurt, Germany


I remember that I alway have a dream when I was a child.I want to go to anywhere of world.but I haven't come true it .I'm effort to go forward Toward the direction.

permalink written by  newnow on May 8, 2011 from Frankfurt, Germany
from the travel blog: round trip
tagged Dream and ComeTrue

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