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RE: Exploring Eastern Sierras Mountains: Alabama Hills, California
How could I have never heard of Alabama Hills. Love it. And love that RV.
How could I have never heard of Alabama Hills. Love it. And love that RV.
It was a great first time exploring and I can't wait to go back! Don't even get me started on the rv...I bought it just to drive it to Mexico and so far it's not going smoothly. This trip was a test run so hopefully I'll be posting from Mexico soon!
Best of luck with it. The best of voyages start on a basis of uncertainty.
Thank you! I'll tell my mom that...not sure if she'll agree but I sure like the sound of it!
Perhaps read her this Sterling Hayden quote from his book Wanderer which was published in 1963. Its about sailing but you will just be sailing along in your RV !
“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea... "cruising" it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.
"I've always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security." And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone.
What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade.
The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.
Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life? ”
― Sterling Hayden, Wanderer
Wow this really says everything all these "vanlifers" I follow (in the here and now) are saying! I'm surprised it was written in 1963. Even now I know it's frowned upon to live in the now and not work towards that retirement. So many people much younger than me are quitting their 9-5's and living day to day while they travel. Most say something like they want to do it now when they're able and not when it's safe. It seems Sterling Hayden was saying it before everyone else! Thank you for the excerpt. I will now endeavor to be a voyager!!! (Sans mortgage!)
Yes people always think their on the head of the curve . Then you read some of the stuff the Roman’s wrote 2k years ago about fashion and lifestyle and freedom and realise that no matter how much we change we always stay the same. Stirlings book is worth reading just for the historical context.