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[annieover]

As I approach age 40, I keep wishing it were possible for me to gather up a bunch of my favorite people and just go on a hilarious, spiritually enriching, adventure filled road trip.  But not only are there massive time constraints and responsibility constraints, I also know from experience that while many of my friends used to be road trip people

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[mmmgood]

Believe me, I understand the desire to go into forty with a bang, not a whimper! I hope you get something appropriately celebratory and self-sustaining worked out.

[annieover]

I'm trying to be through with being disappointed in myself.

[dimfuture]

I'm road trip people! But am I on your favorites list?

[annieover]

You are definitely on my favorites list, but I need to find someone local to come with me to where you are.

[dimfuture]

Indeed.

Spiritual enrichment sounds awesome right about now.

[annieover]

I went and lay down in the grass outside for a while on Friday and thought about how it used to be so easy for me to slip out of myself. Now I feel nervous any time I try to do that, although for an entirely different reason than what used to make me anxious. It used to be so easy for me that I felt there was a real danger that I would "come untied" from my physical being. Now I'm afraid that I'll find out I'm incapable of forgetting my physical being for even a few hours.

[jimbow8]

I'm road trip people, also, though I am also hesitant due to constraints. It would depend on the details. I've even done the road trip out to where Dan is at in the past.

[jimbow8]

I've done that trip in the past - not that Dan is in the past. ;)

[dimfuture]

No, you had it right the first time... I am in the past.

[jimbow8]

Perfect! We should grab a Nehi soda some time and have a battle of Rock-em Sock-em Robots!

[luminousx]

I understand the feeling all too well. I'm not road trip people, if I ever was. I really am a homebody. Road food gives me heart burn and gas. The most I can hope to survive is a weekend camping trip. My moods turn on a dime which makes me annoying company to be around for any extended periods of time, and nothing is spiritually enriching.

I feel like we all need a reawakening of some sort.

[annieover]

An Algonquin Round Table or a Bloomsbury Group would be nice as well. Or even Thoreau's cabin in the wood that provides opportunity for socializing and also space for isolation when necessary.

[luminousx]

We should all invest in Wisconsin acreage on a lake and make a big summer camp where we spend our summers together.

[drmagoo]

Sadly, my investment days are, I fear, not within sight.

[drmagoo]

As a relative young'un, I'm not quite as near 40 as the rest of y'all, but I am more than willing to join in the big excitings, given of course constraints. I love the idea, but I am as stuck as everyone else on the how.

[annieover]

I'd bet that for you, as for me, adventures that can accommodate children are more workable than adventures that exclude children.

[drmagoo]

That is most definitely true.