Road Trips

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Legit or not, what's the best trip you've taken, OR the best trip you can imagine taking? Not opposed to air travel stories, but curious to hear from true wanderers and be inspired. 

I bought a large RV and spent a year on the road traveling all over Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Calif, Utah, Arizona. Avoided all cities except for interstate pass-thru. I was an avid hiker & river rafter so spent alot of time in the national parks, national monuments, wilderness lands, forests, mountains & canyons. That was my best trip, totally unplugged from the rat race. My dream exploration vacation is to spend a few months down in the south pacific islands with a side trip to New Zealand.

Nice! Yeah the west is the only place in the US I could get lost in for a year and forget everything. 

The US is a big place. Almost every State has area has that special place that only the locals know about, because they want to keep it that special place. An great place to "chill".

I grew up in the woods, a member of an humongous family. When I reached my teen years, my Mother told me that wherever I go, I should find me a secret space, where I could go and as you put it, just "Chill".

I remember my very first secret space. We lived on over forty acres of woods, that backed on about 60 to 80 acres behind us and to the sides of us. I found during one of my walks, a huge fallen tree that was perfect in every way. Right width, right incline. It became my secret space. I would go out, lie on that tree, and read for hours. I would sit and eat the foods I had brought with me, and just chill.

The biggest treasure I found was right after I had graduated University, and had just started my new job. I decided to take a walk in the woods behind the building I was living in at the time, and I found hidden far back up in the trees and bushes, a stream. I followed the stream for a good ways and ran smack dab into a waterfall. There was not a soul there.

I could hear far off in the distance, activity of people going about their daily lives, and oblivious to this beautiful oasis. It became my favorite secret place. To this day, I have never told any one where to find it. I only lived there about four years. During that time I never ran across another person at my secret place.

Things were a hell of a lot different back then. I don't think I would be as brave today as to go off for hours to a secret place in the woods. That may be why in my later years, I bought my own secret place. Though it is not that secret, it still gives me peace and pleasure, to walk the 100+ acres around me. A place where I can just "chill".


Look for it. You will find it. Usually much closer that you could have ever imagined.