Are you attracted to the lifestyle of a wanderer?

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It always apealed to me even as a child. I wanted to go to Africa, befriend a colony of meerkats and live amoung them as a meerkat. It's been done with wolves and monkeys and other gargarious mammals so why not meerkats? Not observing them but living as a meerkat and being accepted as a part of their group and not a part of the landscape or treat dispinser.

Somewhat, the first Metallica song I ever liked was "Wherever I May Roam", in Kal Online I usually play a "Vagabond Knight", I am not known for living a predictable lifestyle and have lived in 5 or so different cities in the past 2 years and in 2 seperate counties. I do value being able to have one set place to lay my head though.

I've wanted to make meandering journeys to no particular place for no particular reason ever since I was a child. I would make lists of the things I would need to carry. I would spend hours looking at maps. I wanted to either walk or row a boat. Last summer I managed to do do a three day bike trip, camping each night between towns, in the forest. I loved it. This spring I may do it again, but for more days, and more remote from towns. I am already looking at maps and making lists. I have a partner and house and all, so I am not going to go off a long time, but this way I get a little taste of it. I met some people that do travel all the time, he writes and she makes jewelry. They stay a while where they stop then move on.

Oh yes. George Clooney's character from "Up in the Air". Totally me. Been living the pack lightly philosophy my whole life.

It seems like since I was a small child I have been wandering concentric circles around my home. Farm, neighboring forest, small town, larger town, city, country, Africa, and now New Zealand. I recently found out that I was conceived at a rest-stop in Arizona and it makes me smile

I am attached to the area where I grew up, but I have always felt what Germans call "Fernweh". There is no accurate translation for this in English, but it could be regarded as "far-sickness" (as opposed to home-sickness) or "longing for the far/distance".
For me the horizon has always be the biggest temptation. I love to travel and I love to walk long distances. Actually walking calms me down, so every now and then I long for walking somewhere all alone.

I thought that I could walk in the countryside in the area of England where my university is, but I had to find out that the countryside is not as open as it is in Germany. There are only very few paths leading thorugh the fields, all the other ways are streets. There is a park, but it isn't very big and it's all fenced in.
I'm starting to feel like an animal in a cage.

I mus admit that something about the lifestyle af a wanderer appeals to me, but I still know I wouldn't like it. I do enjoy the security of a home.

No, I want to stay home.

Yes.

Had I not gotten married, I suspect I never would have settled in one place. I also suspect I would have ended up a homelss wanderer, not some writer of travel logs

i'd like to do it if i had enough money to then keep somewhere to come back to. not really wandering i guess.

I love this drawing MenInTights. Yes, I travelled a great deal as a child and I dream of having an Airstream travel trailer to live in while I travel around North America and write stories for my children and future grandchildren.

But I don't like to be rushed while I'm travelling. If I like a place and the people somewhere, I want to stay a little while and experience more. I hope to visit other places in the World as well.

at age 8 i decided i wanted to move to Africa and live in a tree house in the jungle. I even began not wearing shoes so that I could toughen my feet to climb trees better.
had something to do with not being permitted to even walk down the block alone, let alone go to the park alone, sometimes even play in the front yard alone.
maybe why I went to a college 3,000 miles away? where I wandered most of the time, went on marathon walks, travelled between major NE cities.

I feel most comfortable when I'm inbetween places. once at a destination I feel sort of lost.

I feel like a part of me was left somewhere else or i dropped a limb somewhere along the way and, having no idea whatsover as to where it is, perhaps wander in hope of stumbling upon it.

That's wonderful, you can't go wrong there!

Since I left home at the tender age of sixteen, I've wandered. Gathered no moss, but I've roamed. More recently, I've stuck around - although still gathered no moss.

What was the question again?

I like the idea of wandering, but in practice it just wouldn't work. I am very particular about stuff, and I like my routine. I think truthfully I just wish I liked wandering because it would be cool.

I have always felt pulled towards it; the appeal of seeing and learning something new, the bittersweet image of the lonesome wanderer. I suppose you could say my lifestyle is half-wanderer. It's exactly what I thought it would be, but also tiring.