{"id":5580,"date":"2010-03-16T13:25:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:47:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:47:59","slug":"the-restless-cycle-of-the-wanderer-nester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2010\/03\/the-restless-cycle-of-the-wanderer-nester\/","title":{"rendered":"The Restless Life of the Nester-Wanderer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I constantly crave and wrestle with these same contradictory sides…<\/em><\/p>\n

From the Enchanted Gypsy Travel Diaries:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“I guess what I am saying is, I am feeling a bit like it may be time to try to lay some roots. In my ideal world we would have a home base, somewhere wild and remote, preferably in a community but not necessarily, where we could grow a garden and build a cobb house. A place with lots of trees, a pond or stream and a nice sunny, south facing meadow. From there we could travel part of the year in the bus, maybe even leave the bus at times and travel internationally by foot, wagon or boat. So, we are putting that out there in the universe as our prayer, that we find a piece of land someplace wild and full of magic. A place where we can lay some roots and grow a garden, at least for part of the year anyway.<\/p>\n

One thing is for certain though, neither Moss nor I could ever settle down permanently. We both have the heart and spirit of a gypsy nomad. I have known since early childhood that I was destined, for better or for worse to spend a good deal of my life wandering, seeking out the dsuty, remote and wind swept corners of the earth.<\/p>\n

Gypsy, rolling stone, nomad, wanderer, tinker, hobo… call us what you will, we have been called by many names, but one thing is true, most people who wander relentlessly do tend to feel this call from a young age. You know who you are.<\/strong> Keep in mind, this nomad that I write of is quite a different animal than the one who enjoys frequent trips, usually pre arranged via travel agents, to resorts all over the world. For the true nomad it is more about a way of life. There is also a kind of frantic yet aimless quality to the travel. It is rather like you are racing to experience as much as life has to offer in the short amount of time given<\/p>\n

When ignored this calling for the road only gets louder and louder until you find your thoughts increasingly filled with images of travel in all forms, train hopping, bus conversions, gypsy wagons, RVs, hitch-hiking, sailing. Before you know it your drifting off at work or school, unable to concentrate as you continuously design and redesign the perfect bus conversion or gypsy wagon in your head.<\/p>\n

As much as I love this wandering life, at the the same time I have always been a homebody, believe it or not. In fact I am probably the biggest homebody I have ever known. I would much rather sit in the bus and read, work on felting, watch the fire or clean than go out to a movie or friends party.<\/p>\n

It’s true, I am a basket of contradictions and somehow I must find a way to marry these two sides of myself, the side that wants, no, NEEDS to keep moving and travelling, with the side that wants to be grounded and have a home base.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I constantly crave and wrestle with these same contradictory sides… From the Enchanted Gypsy Travel Diaries: “I guess what I am saying is, I am feeling a bit like it may be time to try to lay some roots. In my ideal world we would have a home base, somewhere wild and remote, preferably in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408,213,223,224,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-food-for-thought","category-the-pursuit-of-happiness","category-travelog","category-wildishheart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}