Comments on: Audience Participation – The Comment Competition

By: Brittany Caumette

Brittany Caumette — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 13:22:50 +0000

Dear Freya,

Thank you for reading my blog. I am glad it is helping to reorient your brain elsewhere through this trying time. I cannot wait for you to get to Jordan and Israel! We won't be too far off, making our way through Ethiopia and Sudan by that point, and hopefully taking a boat into Saudi Arabia before journeying through Oman, Iran, and Turkey! I'll keep writing in the meantime.

Your name is going in the hat! :)

By: Brittany Caumette

Brittany Caumette — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 13:20:56 +0000

Clayton, I’m so glad that you’re out there traveling and living abroad and experiencing the world that I am fortunate enough to see every day! It’s pretty cool that you were able to take the big leap, which gets harder with each passing year. I wish you would keep a blog – I have no idea where exactly you’re living, what you’re doing, what your future travel/life/work plans are! You know that I’m always available if you have questions or ideas you want to run past.

Until then, thanks for reading and participating in my blog!

By: Freya Gnerre

Freya Gnerre — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:12:20 +0000

Reading your blog has helped my through my hum drum days of cleaning out all the collected items of my deceased husband. I so look forward to my freedom to travel and make my own adventures – only a bit tamer than yours due to my old age! I do have a trip planned to Jordan and Israel in October which I can’t wait to do. One of the items on my bucket list. And, I have plenty more planned for the future. Hopefully, your Aunt Louise and I will do some together. In the meantime, I’m truly enjoying your pictures and dialogue – and collecting them all for the future. My big question is…where do you keep all your clothes? You always have something different on. I do want to win the prize! Love, Auntie Freya

By: Clayton Roche

Clayton Roche — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:49:57 +0000

Oh you want to hear what I have to say? Well, then, you asked for it. As a fellow vagabond, I appreciate what you do. I like that we met at college, before the vagabonding began. I meet travelers from all over the world, but you're from home. I remember you explaining, maybe on the sidewalk outside Durand, that you wanted to hang out with lions in nature (I'm paraphrasing) because that's the only thing that truly holds your interest. This was years before I would catch on, at the time it sounded like a dream far out of my reach ("But how do you pay for it?" and "What about you career" etc.)

I'm always pleased when I visit your blog, which I do sporadically. I just read your article about your African home on wheels. I had to go live through a few years of grueling work and homestayer life before I would slough off that anxiety for so-called security. Three years ago, my work life reached a climax of insufferability and I escaped to a farm in Hawai'i. What was meant to be a temporary break from my job turned into a year on the islands and I haven't worked for someone else, or paid a US rent, since.

I have only lived a few months with the level of freedom and mobility that you have manifested, when I lived on the beaches in Hawai'i. Now I live in Thailand, but I lament my conservative travel style. But if the past is any indication, it will only be a few more years before I'm brave enough to live like you are now. Please, carry on & keep clearing the trail ahead for me! :)

By: Brittany Caumette

Brittany Caumette — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 11:18:11 +0000

I’m commenting on my own blog entry to encourage you to do so as well! But don’t worry, I won’t enter myself in the Comment Competition – I don’t have a fixed address at which to send myself an African card, anyway!