This is awesome. We traveled for 3 years throughout the US, always thinking that we would find that one amazing place that was just "it" and ended up right back nearby the home we left. This was the right place for us as our kids grew up. Now we're itching to move along again.
I love that you took off to look and search for what you needed. It is a journey, all of life is a journey and I love the honesty in this post. I'm glad you found your place :)
I've been in this place as well, with the mental and physical health. I have spent this last year dealing with life changes and forcing myself back to healthy... it can really really be a BIG struggle. I really do think that it's awesome that you've been so open about it all. I find writing about these things to be so healing for me. I hope you feel the same.
Funny how traveling around can really make you realize what you really want in life. I am glad that you can relate and it helped you to heal some. This has been incredibly hard for me to write about because the whole time I've been feeling like a failure with all of steemit as my audience. Truth is I know I am not a failure, because I never gave up. I pushed forward until I found a place to call home, and getting up when you fall is not failing, its actually succeeding. I was just hoping to continue my journey of following my dreams and blogging about it to give other people hope. Turns out the universe has different plans for me othere than being a beach bum for the rest of my life. That was a huge hit on my ego and hard for me to deal with so I turned to eating food and drinking liquor to cope for while. But now that I have found a home I am working on getting back on top of my health and ready for the next chapter of my life.
Thanks for sharing your story with me, its always nice to hear other people have gone through similar things and come out on top. ;)
I totally understand, more than you can know. My husband has been going through this exact same thing since we decided to nix the sailboat life. Living on a sailboat was something he dreamed of since he was 13, something his father wanted to do but never could. We managed to do it, but it became quickly obvious that it wasn't sustainable for us for many reasons.
Even though we had the boat and had amazing adventures that never would have happened any other way, it didn't last (almost 2 years) but He took that very personally as a failure of his very being and is just now starting to come out of the haze of self flagellation (with the food, escapism and liquor as well) to the point that it really wreaked havoc on our life and our marriage.
We also grew up in the midwest (Iowa) so I really can relate to SO much of what you've done!