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Everyone had that friend growing up that never really aspired to do much, not to say that they were lazy but just never cared to see what was beyond the city limits. Am I alone on this one? I never understood it because from the time I could walk I was running, and what was in front of me was great but I was always sure that there must be something better, over there! Which brings me to my round about question to those who care to enlighten me from personal experience, What caused you to break the mold, go beyond the city limits? I average about 6 months every place I've lived, to some people the thought of even moving once in a decade stresses them out of natural order, but for me it's like it's a month past due every time. I don't know gimme some thoughts on where the wandering soul finds the shoes to leave with.
Andie

I'm a little bit different. I love to wander, but I hate to move. My dream is to set myself up with a homebase, so that I can travel six months of the year, and be home six months of the year. Packing up all my stuff and moving to a new home is tedious to me, and I like to temper the adventure of travel with the continuity of home.

Hi

Home sweet home, there should be something that I can come back to. I shifted cities two years ago and found it traumatic, I still feel nostalgic whenever i travel to my home town (from where I shifted). and yet, i love to travel, to do different things, to take up different careers. Every two years I seem to be trying my hand at a different career, but I do need a permanency as far as home is concerned.

Guess, each to his/her own liking.
cheers!
dustyshoes

I am glad of all the travel I did in my youth.

As you get older, comfort becomes more important.

...and God forbid, you get too comfortable, to get out of your easy chair!

On The Road was a lifestyle for me...but as you find more of what you're looking for in your life, you'll also be more content being in one place...Inside Your Self!

...but keep on truckin...till that day becomes!

Yeah, I'm like you...to the chagrin of all my landlords I have yet to actually see through an entire one year lease! I find change, whether it be travel or just a simple move across town (I just moved to an apartment not 2 miles from my last place), to be stimulation to an otherwise monotonous everyday life.

My parents have told me this story (and anyone else who cares to listen) of when I was two years old. We are on a beach in Santa Barbara and I wander off towards a big shaggy dog. My folks think after a bit I'll turn around and come back. But instead my curiosity got the better of me and 2 miles later I am still chasing the dog, my parents, of course, chasing me.

I try to live my life like that now. Okay, so I am not chasing a dog anymore but I am always looking forward to something instead of looking back. I'm sure I'll find that stasis when I'll be able to stop moving and be content standing still. (here's when I wish we could link this topic to the Passion vs. Place!) Until then, well...

If you're gonna be a Bear-- be a Grizzly, huh?

I like to have some sort of roots. But right now I am just trying to keep those roots emotional rather than physical. I am trying to keep my personal possesions down to a minimum so I can go wherever I want. That is the key right now for me. I just want to go where I want to go with nothing holding me back, Someday I will probably have physical roots, but right now, I certainly will not. I am happy to live out of a backpack. It doesn't bother me. For the last 6 years I have not been in one bed longer than 9 months. I change houses, apartments, cots, whatever. When I first started I decorated my places I would live but now why bother since I will just have to pack it anyways.

There's just one VERY cliched phrase that I think needs a mention.......

"The grass is always greener, on the other side..."

Thats how I see it. Some people want to see the grass, some are happy to wait for it to grow back.

Dan..