The day after I moved into my 4Runner to try the next adventure of overlanding, I spent my time rafting the Rio Grande with two of my dear friends. The river sparked conversation in what it means to be a vagabond, and how we may have it figured out after all — to call everywhere home. To not have a fixed address or lean on ‘things’. To let the universe guide the soul as the wind blows. Many see this lifestyle as wild, dirty, absurd. We came to the conclusion that everyone else is crazy, and those that find humility and comfort in this lifestyle may be a little closer to the way the creator intended.
I will leave you with this:
“To live content with small means.
To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion.
To be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not rich.
To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes, and sages with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.”
- William Elery Channing