I figure I’ll make a post about this as an extension of my usual mental release, HAH! My wife is going on a four day vacation so I’m dreaming of escaping, but unfortunately, this is about as far as I can afford to go.
Anyway, the dream is two fold, If I realize I can’t make it, then the blue area is all I am able to afford (when my allowance permits), but if I am capable of making enough for the return trip, then the red is my most desired route (AKA, where I can grow ferns outside, and where I had the most fun during the last times I was capable of traveling. I still, very vividly, see the Adiantum pedatum growing wild along a trail in Pershing State Park in Missouri in 2016).
Unfortunately, my home life is not the greatest for learning new tricks, and my skills are extremly lacking in anything non-physical related. Plus my chronic pains, I just don’t know what this old damn body can do, so i dream every once in a while, HAH! It’s like window shopping, except with ferns, HAHA!
Teotl, I miss traveling. Pppp! But that job was my last possible effort, and I let the stress and my wife’s anger to make me drop it. Eh, I had a lot of fun on those trails. Pershing State Park, MO, Bobwhite State Park, IA, Weldon Springs State Park, IL, and Copper Breaks State Park, TX…Oh hell, Copper Breaks, almost passed out from low blood sugar because once I started finding Pellaea atropurpurea growing along a trail, I went absolutely crazy with sheer joy, HAH! There were so many. It was beautiful.
Ok, I’m done. I need to stop dreaming now, HAH!
Maybe there’s a VR of botanical gardens or hiking trails around the world so you could see those things you miss.
Oh man, google maps works wonders for that, heh. I’ve gone along roads (some trails, too) in Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, and some islands to hunt for epiphytic ferns, tree ferns, and terrestrial ferns. Oh, the wonders I’ve seen. The fronds I’ve imagined running my fingers through. Yeah, I’ve done that so often, too often, heh.