country mouse comes to town

[bluedevi]

Back home forests are deep cool peace and balm for the soul, the feeling of your chest unclenching and your heart slowing down as you walk out of the jagged noise of the urban world into the quiet greenness. They´re somewhere to go when you´ve been run ragged, to restore yourself and get a treehugging fix to help you cope with the madness outside

Comments

[lilitufire]

I'm enjoying reading your travels - that sounds amazing.

I am thinking you would absolutely love the Great Barrier Reef and the Queensland rainforest, if you haven't seen either already!

[bluedevi]

Yeah, I´d love to see both of those. I can´t dive, but maybe someday.

[lilitufire]

If you can swim you can snorkel, and the reef is incredible just with snorkelling - so much of it is so close to the surface that you can get really close anyway!

[carbonunit]

Swam in the Amazon!

It sounds a lot more intense than the rainforests we have here in Aus.

[bluedevi]

Does it? I thought Australia was Poisonous Creature Central...

[sushidog]

Wow. Just wow. Wow at the things you're doing and seeing, and at the way you describe them, which makes me hungry for adventure. "Thanks for sharing" seems like a horrible empty cliche, but I really mean it here; your posts are a real pleasure to read. Are you going to publish all of this?

[bluedevi]

Oh hello! And you´re very welcome.

It might be a novel eventually :)

[julietk]

Aw man. That sounds unbelievably great, and you describe it all so incredibly well.

I think S America may now have made it onto the List for the next time I get itchy feet (5-6 years, on current reckoning - enough time to save up for the boat journey over ;-) )

[bluedevi]

I´m sorry I don´t have longer - travellers keep coming by and telling me about Bolivia and Colombia and Brazil - so all of those have gone on the List for some later time as well. I would love to sail to South America. Maybe arrive in Rio or something. Ideally when I had a book or other long thing to write!

[triskellian]

Swimming in the Amazon! Wow!

[bluedevi]

I thought you´d appreciate that bit :)