How to Have a Dream

Processing first impressions.

How to have a dream and stick to it in a hectic world is hard work. Its now been four days since the TV broadcast. And our second night that we’re really travelling. The program that us filmed was about: people helping people. We did a call for help about places to stay with the wagon. Great experience and an overwhelming response.

Hectic

I still have to process all the impressions of the last days. It’s all very hectic. We have chosen for the gradually road of saying goodbye. We leave now and travel around for a couple of weeks and then we’ll say goodbye and leave for a longer period. It’s incredible what we had to arrange before we could put away the key of the car for real.

Now that I walk around the wagon with nothing but a bicycle key and the wagon key, I feel free from all liabilities and responsibilities. Of course I know I still have some, but they are from a different order and magnitude that I’m used to. How that really works I still have to figure out. To have a dream like this is a challenge of his own.

The trip to Hilversum and the conversation with the radio presenter was very fun and I have gained something from it as well. Many of the questions were about the courage that is needed to let go of all securities. I don’t feel it that way. It hasn’t been easy to let go of everything but eventually it’s about so called acquired securities, they didn’t fell from the sky!

If all should fail, I still have myself, and I could always rely on myself relating work, earning money and building a career. Letting go what you have isn’t that hard when you know you will be able to acquire it back again.

How to have a dream

After the TV broadcast we have been receiving a lot of reactions with invitations to come over. People from all parts of Holland, with very friendly messages and descriptions of grassland and beautiful places where we would welcome. Although I expected reactions to our calling I never realized expectations from other people would accompany them.

This brings forward a luxury problem, are we, or are we not going to make use of all invitations? In favour because of the nice gesture people make. We ask for an overnight stay and people offer it unselfishly. Often they’re people that I think I could have a connection with, so they’re fun to meet. Places and spots I have never been before. The fact that we chose a different route than we’re taking now is fine with me. I always thought that we would really be travelling when we would have crossed the border and that we from then on would be “Frühstücken” instead of eating a sandwich with cheese.

I let go of thought long ago. We’re travelling, end of discussion.

Against it because we dreaming from a vision that seemed favourable spiritual as well as pragmatic. A direction instead of a goal gives a sense of space and freedom and the feeling that I don not know what behind the next corner. In practice I don’t have to read a map to see if the we are on the right track. During our holiday in Crete we decided we could not take the wrong route, just a different one, and that takes away a lot of stress.

Yesterday, on our first day, we had an appointment with a good friend of John. Between eleven and one we would be at his gate, wagon and horses, to bring a last book. Unfortunately we were much later because we couldn’t leave after losing our keys, saying goodbye to people, talking to people and because we took a wrong turn twice and had to return.

And just that happened in a dream, no a nightmare I’m having: we’re making appointments to see someone and I’m reading a map with a sweaty head and guiding us with a 2.20 meters wagon on a 2.19 meters wide track. What I mean is: what will become of the careless way of travelling I had in mind? To have a dream about quiet surrounding and roads? I don’t now where is this is going, and I mean that both literally as metaphorical. Thea.

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