Twilight
01-10-2009, 12:15 AM
I straight up miss being in the middle of nowhere. I miss living so far from a city, the nearest town was 4 hours away. I miss the sounds of nature, hunting for food, setting traps and just living on my own.
In australia, I lived about 4 hours from a city, 2 hours from anyone else. My mom and dad always left for months on end and I had homeschooling done by myself until I was 13. Anyway, I grew up in the bush. I never had a care in the world. When my parents would come back from their trips I would get food for months, water and cleaning supplies. My brother and sister stayed at home, but I was always going out and adventuring, sometimes wouldnt come home for weeks. I LOVED IT. When I was 11, I asked for a bow, my mom just wanted to get me a gun, but I said if not a bow, then a slingshot. I got both. I started hunting with the slingshot and the bow, hell I even fished with the bow. It was great. I killed my first fish just a few days after and although it was a small smelt... I felt like a king. In time I would kill larger fish, such as bass and cod. The largest being a skate I killed one night when I thought it was a lobster:crazy: I would also hunt on land and the biggest animal I took was a sheep (which lasted a week feeding my brother, sister and me). One winter, I stayed out there for 2 months trying to survive with just some matches, a bow, knife, spear i made, slingshot, sleepingbag and a pack of clothes... it was the best summer.
Then we all moved to WA here in the US. I had to go to school, and well after all these years, I miss the outdoors. I go out all the time in the summer and winter. But work requires me to come back, I am still pretty much a loner. My ex's family thought I was lieing until I showed them videos of it all and my mom telling them, then they thought I was crazy, everyone did.
I have been debating going back to Australia and just riding a dirtbike or a quad until im out of gas and then just staying out there for as long as I want, or even doing it here in the states.
Sounds crazy huh?
In australia, I lived about 4 hours from a city, 2 hours from anyone else. My mom and dad always left for months on end and I had homeschooling done by myself until I was 13. Anyway, I grew up in the bush. I never had a care in the world. When my parents would come back from their trips I would get food for months, water and cleaning supplies. My brother and sister stayed at home, but I was always going out and adventuring, sometimes wouldnt come home for weeks. I LOVED IT. When I was 11, I asked for a bow, my mom just wanted to get me a gun, but I said if not a bow, then a slingshot. I got both. I started hunting with the slingshot and the bow, hell I even fished with the bow. It was great. I killed my first fish just a few days after and although it was a small smelt... I felt like a king. In time I would kill larger fish, such as bass and cod. The largest being a skate I killed one night when I thought it was a lobster:crazy: I would also hunt on land and the biggest animal I took was a sheep (which lasted a week feeding my brother, sister and me). One winter, I stayed out there for 2 months trying to survive with just some matches, a bow, knife, spear i made, slingshot, sleepingbag and a pack of clothes... it was the best summer.
Then we all moved to WA here in the US. I had to go to school, and well after all these years, I miss the outdoors. I go out all the time in the summer and winter. But work requires me to come back, I am still pretty much a loner. My ex's family thought I was lieing until I showed them videos of it all and my mom telling them, then they thought I was crazy, everyone did.
I have been debating going back to Australia and just riding a dirtbike or a quad until im out of gas and then just staying out there for as long as I want, or even doing it here in the states.
Sounds crazy huh?