I’m off on an adventure. Alone. For four days and four nights.
Thanks to the enormous generosity of always-supportive LOML, I’ll be driving down the east coast of NSW, then across to Daylesford in Victoria and back up to Sydney via Bendigo. It’s a big drive and it may change en-route, but to be honest, it doesn’t matter where I go, just that I go. Alone.
There have been two schools of opinion on this one. First there is the ‘oh my god, I’m so jealous, I wish I was doing that’ school. They get that it’s not about the drive. It’s about the opportunity to do what I want, when I want and for as long as I want. If you ask me, when you’re a wife and a mumma and at the end of some days you’ve done so much talking in your work and real life that you are literally all talked out, being alone is the ultimate luxury.
Then there’s the ‘don’t you want to take a friend?’ school.
Now, I’m a social creature, don’t get me wrong. I come alive in large groups of people and I love to talk and talk and talk. Love sharing a story, having a cuddle, showing off, listening to a problem, debating the universe and sorting out just exactly what needs to be done about that Shari-Lea.
But I really, really don’t want to take a friend.
Cheers to thinking uninterrupted thoughts and spur of the moment stop offs. To arrivals and departures whenever it suits me. To suddenly taking a left hand turn to see what’s down the road. To listening to the music that I want to listen to or to no music at all. To staying a bit too long at a gallery or lingering in a bookstore.
Cheers to the beauty of solitude.
[Image: photo-alchemy.co.uk]
Gifts of Serendipity says
What an excellent role model you are not only for your kidlets but for everyone you know.
And here’s to the LOYL for supporting you with this, no mean feat I’m sure but a great indication of his love and respect for you.
x Felicity
PS You may note that I’ve got a bit of time up my own sleeve and have been reading back through your older posts…such fun.
F
Kebeni says
I bet you had the best time. I love doing things like that so I can choose the route, the stops and everything in between
life in a pink fibro says
You’re an excellent driver. 🙂
Lucy says
I am reading this, yonks later, feeling so utterly jealous.
I totally get this. Totally.
xx
ClaireyH says
Pure bliss, but to me I would stop so much I may never get to the destination, stopping at all sorts of places that only I want to check out and not justifying it to anyone.
GourmetGirlfriend says
i’m totally inspired by your courage.
what a MAGNIFICENTLY brave journey to take- solo!
good on you…….
JANE says
Oh, Bron. I hear you. In stereo. Silence is so beautiful. Solitude is divine. I hope you enjoyed yourself! J x
myshoeboxlife.com says
I never feel alone when I’m by myself. Not that I have been for more than three hours in the last year, but before that, well I loved adventuring by myself more than anything. Mr G and I went to New York a couple of years ago. He could never understand why every day that we were there, I had to spend time alone to explore by myself. I can’t explain it either, but me, myself and I, we love our own company. x
Gill@OurParklife says
oh my god, I’m so jealous. I wish I was doing that!…
SOOO much
so nice to read old posts from our favorite places…isn’t this a fun linky?
Gill xo
Gill@OurParklife says
oh my god, I’m so jealous. I wish I was doing that!
SOOO much
It is very nice to visit some old posts at some of our favorite places – isn’t this a lovely linky?!
Gill xo
Cate says
I’ve never actually contemplated going anywhere on my own without the kiddos (isn’t that sad!). It sounds like a great way to enjoy the world and just be – and have some quiet thinking time. How did it turn out? I’d love to know…xxx