Cashmere's log - Day Five

>> Saturday, October 24, 2009


OMG. This is hell. Everytime we pack up the camper and get in the car I think that we are going home but we just keep getting further and further away from my chaise lounge and my couch. I thought that the sand burrs were bad and the wild cats in Rodanthe that ate my food every night. I also was weirded-out by the gravestones right behind our site while Mom and Dad went to the beach for three hours. Then, Dad made me swim in the bay while Mom paddled around on the surfboard. But now, we are in a place called "Frisco" in the outer banks and it has been raining on and off all day. The rain stopped briefly and we got to play "stick" and I jumped over a pile of seagrass and sprained my already weak ankle. I am too old for this. I tried to eat my dinner and the awning on the camper is blowing and banging and Dad made a fire in a random old grill that he "borrowed" from a neighboring campsite and it is so windy the smoke keeps blowing in my face. What was that?!? Was that lightning?!? Thunder?!? Ohhhh nooooooo......


3 comments:

jody October 24, 2009 at 11:35 PM  

i love hearing cashmere's perspective. she may not be an early adaptor but i'm sure she'll see the light in no time and realize she already is home.
hopefully the rain is past and you'll have blue skies soon. the rain must sound nice on the camper roof though. i'll be thinking about that as i try to sleep through the police sirens and other miscellaneous city noises. :)
safe journey.
xo

rosemary cumba October 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM  

Oh my dear sweet granddog, how sad for you. Yet I know your mommy and daddy love you dearly and that is why they brought you along. You n eed to know grandma and grandpa love you with all their hearts and you need to give your mommy and daddy a big Kiss from us.Love Grandma Rose.

Anonymous October 26, 2009 at 6:30 PM  

Max and Zoe send there love to Cashmere, they are very jealous of your travels and experiences. Keep the updates coming!

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my wife and i have had a fairly mundane life so far. we live in northern delaware where we met, fell in love, bought a house and got married. we enjoy traveling, camping, surfing and eating well and we do not have any children. we are in our mid-thirties and have average careers, not glamorous or high paying, but consistent none the less. as time passes day to day in our mundane life there has been something growing stronger inside of us for years. that something is the need to break out of our slumber and live life to the fullest. we want to see the world and find a place by the edge of the sea to call home and open our own business. we keep revisiting this idea, reinventing the plan, but never following through. last december we got serious... we wrote down goals, step by step, to move towards achieving our dreams. we created a budget and decided we could feasible travel in our pop-up camper for 3 months exploring the coast in search for the place we wanted to live. we saved money for traveling, we got our house appraised, we worked on curb appeal & we sold cumbersome unessential possessions. last big step was to sell our house and our target was September. we finally got our house on the market on friday, september 25. we had
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in 2004 my parents took my entire family on a Hawaiian cruise. during this cruise i had a life altering experience... a surf lesson on the island of maui. being a water person already, i immediately i had a definitive connection with surfing. upon arrival back in delaware i went out and purchased my first surf board. i started surfing the local breaks occasionally. i got my closest friends into it and they too ended up buying boards. occasionally turned into frequently and then every day off of work. my first board turned into several and then into a quiver. surfing started as a hobby, a mere fascination and now is a lifestyle that provides me spiritual well being. the connection to a higher power is never more present than during a good dawn session. out in the line up the stressful hustle bustle of life melts away and i can get quiet with god and recharge my internal battery. i'm sure surfing means different things to different people, but for me it is about the soul. i feel i am a better person because what surfing does for me and i will pursue that feeling for the rest of my life.

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