This Long Long Journey is like an Pressure Cooker

This long long journey is like an pressure cooker. Maybe a rollercoaster. Never boring!

Everything we do is intense. The life together, meeting people, the places we stay. Emotions up and down again. A rollercoaster symbolical spoken. The whole day we are interacting with one another, emotions can go up real quick. There is no distraction from other people, the way we depend on each other also grows.

If we not friendly, if there is a tension, I can’t handle the horses anymore. Maybe the horses react on the tension. We have plenty of time to reflect. Yesterday a host asks: don’t you get fed up with being together all the time?

American Paint-Horses

The encounter with this woman starts off in an awkward way. We drive onto the farm, lots of people talking on the driveway. Saying goodbye, a little taxi bus waiting at the street. They ask us to wait, which we do.

Five minutes later, we have a perfect place to stay behind the farm. This farm breeds American Paint horses. Beautiful animals and big to.

The host is very direct: Why are the two of you doing this trip? My answer is direct and honest: Living without a goal. This long long journey is all about living with a direction not a goal.

Live is to beautiful to be limited in goals

Welcome

After a short brake, we drink something, arranging some things around the wagon, the host comes back. Now we hear what was going on when we arrived. Her father in law died three day ago, today it was his funeral. On a day like this, she founds the space in her hart and soul to welcome us. I can’t express how this feels to us.

While I am writing about this encounter, something else happens. An other experience that change my life on this longest journey. Here are the pictures, I don’t say anything more…….

John

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