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Just want to throw a question out there. It seems an appropriate one for New Years Eve. Sometimes women post on here about running away or starting all over. If you could live anywhere you wanted and do anything you wanted for at least 5 years….where would you go and what would you do? Karen xx
I would do everything Julia Roberts did in the movie Eat, pray, love.
Karen ~ you may have already lived in all those places!!
Oh yes heidi,
I agree!!Also i would love to travel certain parts of the world. And maybe stay a few months in the one i love the most. Or maybe a few i love the most. On my list is: England, Frnace, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland. Switzerland is so pretty, i see pics and always a wow moment.
hopefully life takes me to a place to where i can do this money wise. And hope one day i have the courage to do this alone. But i think that it would be something i would never regret doing.
Love,
FloraHi Karen,
Great question. I would move to Ashville, North Carolina. Never even been there, just read about it and seen pictures. Looks beautiful. I would get a small studio apartment, work part time at a local cafe or shop, and then just love the outdoors. I also read it has the highest percentage of retired single men over the age of 50, so maybe a bit of romance, if he’s nice. I mean truly nice.
Love, NapNAP, I got my MFA at Warren Wilson in Swannanoa, right outside of Asheville. It IS the most awesome town–laid-back, lots of creative people, beautiful, sweet potato pancakes to die for…and I didn’t even know about the retired single men! Give me 6 years to graduate this last kid, and I’ll meet you there. Katt can park her RV out back when she visits.
Me too, I’ll bring ZG and her h great cigars. March, thanks for telling me what you know about Ashville makes me even more excited about it!!! Well find some of those over 50 retired single guys and get Katts RV a rockin!!!
nap my mom is giving me a 27 foot pull behind travel trailer never been used. her h bought it new and parked it in the yard. i have his truck now i need to learn to pull it. i told here ill get it in the spring. i figure as long as i go forward i should be ok
Yeah, Karen…after all of your experiences, where would you go??? I’m thinking camper-van in the U.S. for a year, then a year in the mountains, a year in France, a year in Lucca, Italy, and a year in school at some point just because I gave it up too soon. Xx
Interesting how many of us want to see the world. Flora, I have been to every country on your list except Greece. I have never been to N Carolina. 🙂 Lylo…the trouble with moving all the time is you really lose your sense of where home is? There are a number of places I can live but I cannot make up my mind. This is partially because I do not know how I want to fill my days anymore. I am fortunate to have choices but I still cannot make up my mind. Karen xx
I’m in too!! I can bring something to go with the cigars…wink..wink…. Something like a peace pipe! >:)
Karen, I have always envied your worldly travels!!
Hi Lylo! You truly have been “lying low”! I hope all is well and happy new year to you!!!
Love,
SL
I love living here close to the Rockies. It’s breathtaking.
But I also love the Canadian Shield in eastern Ontario north of Kingston.I adore Italy and want to go to Ireland. Also South America.
In the US I love Boston, Seattle, and Asheville really is gorgeous.Have you been to New Orleans Kim? Many people seem to be captivated by that city. I have not been but know many from there and who are chooisng to retire there. It always reminds me of history,creoles, music, steamy nights, murders, debauchery and lust. I have probably watched too many movies? What would you study and why New Orleans? Beacuse there is a good school or because if you are going to go to school may as well go where there is atmosphere…for when you are not studying? 😉 I often look at London in that respect. Diane…you are a true Canadian. I, however, am not. I have duel citizenship Irish/Canadian. I am not into shields or snow covered, grizzely and mosquito infested terraine. Give me the rolling, green pastures of England or Ireland with their medieval walls and the odd badger.. or a 5 star hotel in an old city drenched in history…so when you know your hotel shower runs cold when it should be hot…well…theres a plausible excuse. 😉 I am really a lousy Canadian…cannot abide all this cold, wildlife and reserved sentiment.I just don’t want to take a Sunday after lunch stroll having to worry that I am going to be some other dudes dessert of the huge, 6 inch claw, master predator category variety. 🙂 I do LOVE the way we welcome every race and creed. Canada may well the only true example of living multicultuarlism at work on the planet today. I have a theory about that though. We are all too damn cold to make a fuss. 😉 Karen xx
i was just catching up on posts and read where karen posted
Lylo…the trouble with moving all the time is you really lose your sense of where home is?
what is home ???????? i thought i knew when i bought this house i believe thats what i was we were making. i have never really have that not in my heart. seems i dont have that yet again. but yesterday it hit me a home is inside you, its finding peace its knowing you are safe, with yourself. i think its believing no matter what you will be ok. i not so sure its the bricks and mortar, that is shelter not home. for weeks i have felt like my dreams of a home have some how been destroyed in all the sa crap. yes i have a house it will be finished one day. i will leave it one day by sale or death. home is in your heart, the impact i leave on life is what counts here is a you tube post that i watch quite often http://www.thedashmovie.com/walkthetalk
much love kattI agree with Katt, Sharron. Your life is priceless, how can you put a money value on it. The cost of staying is much greater than the cost of leaving, when you consider everything. You’re not happy, he’s not happy.
In the last 4 years, I’ve lost my home, all my belongings including my clothes, my 2 home after the fire, lived in a hotel with nothong for 5 months, my h is so I’ll he was fired from his job and now I don’t have support alimony. You couldn’t pay me any amount of money to be with him again. I’m very happy despite all my losses. You can’t put a price tag on peace and freedom from the madness.
I hope you find peace Sharron. Love you!!
Corrections: 2nd home, belongings, husband is so ill.
(sorry typing on my iPhone, still living without Internet and TV really doing just fine without them. Read somewhere we only use 20% of the things we own)
Karen,
I’ve been there quite a few times. Love it. The Garden District is beautiful. The history in the French Quarter never gets old. It’s all addicting I think. Bourbon Street is sort of seedy. It’s earned it’s reputation. However it has really been cleaned up since the hurricane. I think part of the draw for people is the risqué mystery surrounding it. It’s like taking a vacation from who you are for a night. The only foreseeable visits in my future are if I can get a girls trip together. Knowing what I know now, I’d never be comfortable going there with my H.I’d go to school for graphic design. And the only reason for it being New Orleans is because I love it there. There’s even a port where major cruise lines depart. And I LOVE the New Orleans Saints. The first thing I’d do is get season tickets to the Superdome.
Europe would be a great place. Everything is so geographically close yet so culturally different. And there is no shortage of castles!!!
SL, I learned to smoke a peace pipe in October at a retreat.
I LOVE Asheville, go there about once a month. Would live there in a heartbeat.
Also dream of traveling and painting, learned of a painting school that has a location in the Alps, and feel that would be the ultimate.
Mostly, just be happy to feel the sun on my skin, the wind in my hair and be free.
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