Jonsmad Adventures

Just me and my pack and my wits

jonsmad — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:25:00 GMT

Im in the process of building a work shed so we can fix up the house and 'fit out' dads bus. He is planning on traveling and camping alot as a lifestyle, so wants to fit out the bus as a mobile home whereby he can run his business and whatever else he wants to do from that.

As for me on the other hand i dont want the stress of all that equipment and vehicle and having to pay for fuel and stuff so its going to be me against the world. Im going (or planning) to just hitchhike around australia and (eventually) around the world. Just me and my pack and my wits. The plan is (and it will take too much explaining of how it will work... so just trust me) is to do a series of blogs and podcasts and publish them on the net to earn a living. Sort of a travel writer and journalist. I just enjoy writing and talking about myself and traveling and meeting people. So thats simply what im going to do.

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Leaving the monkeys

jonsmad — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:09:00 GMT

Well i finally did it, i took the plunge, left Sydney and all the crap that goes with it. After just spending a week away, i cant believe that i spent so long wasting my time in a place that i didn't ever belong or with people that i have nothing in common with. I think there are only a few people i actually ever connected with. I guess i was going about things all wrong. I got into a drinking cycle culture that the only thing that everyone had in common was the fact that they all drank. When i stopped drinking i found myself alienated from the pack. As long as i hung around Sydney i would have been stuck in a constant cycle of getting off face all the time or being rejected by my 'friends' for being different. The monkeys have a way of outcasting those that are different (monkey being a mental construct i have created to explain the difference between ones true analytical state and their reactive and primitive self... Usually brought upon by drinking).

So I'm kind of on a 'mission' of sorts to find 'my' people. I know we are out there, but are few and far between. I don't even know where to start looking, and i think that we all are in the same struggle to find our own kind. For years i thought that i was alone in this world and that i was the strange one. What i couldn't get was that no one else 'got' the same things that i did. I always knew that i was more intelligent that most, but it never got me anywhere. Sure i was more capable than most, but i still had to be told what to do by middle management or stupid teachers. And when i was excelling at anything (which was usually everything) everyone else would be threatened and try to knock me down.

Intelligence though isn't what sets us apart. I only know a handful of people who are 'my' people. We all have the same things in common and can recognize one another without much dialog, its like we are able to communicate on a whole different level. Its actually as if we exist in a different dimension to the rest of the human drones that we have to fill our lives with to survive. We have this sense of self that confuses and intimidates people. Our motives and motivations are their reverse. Where we want to cooperate, they want to compete. Where we have compassion, they have contempt. They are motivated by fear and anger, we are motivated by love and empathy. And for this reason we are alienated by default, they will never understand us and although we understand them we can never coexist. We can try but it will never get the desired result because we are trying to exist in their world not in ours.

We have a higher understanding of things.

So thats why im living with dad. He and i recognize that we are different from the rest of the pack. We have been trying to define what it is that made us different and have spent quite a few years trying to figure us out. We both have met 'others' like us over the years and have the strongest bond with our people. Our mission is to just find people that we have a true and deep connection with. And help them connect with their own kind.

As time goes by and i become somewhat more aware of the people i see, i can notice the types of things that we do and achieve in our lives. Throughout history our people have made some kind of impact on the world. This all may sound a little self involved to the common ear but i think on some level you have always, as i have, sensed it also. We are the great writers, the great thinkers, inventors, missionaries, artists, directors etc. Always have we been out casted from 'normal' societies.

In knowing that things for us are different, it still is no help. All i know it is not for me to live a nine to five lifestyle. A lifestyle that is governed by the likes of a greedy race of men who pride money and power over... hang on, this sounds really cliche' and corny and anti establishment... ill stop there. You get where im coming from.

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Coffee stops and hippie shops

jonsmad — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:57:00 GMT

Dad and i camped out in a place called sawtell. It is a coastal town close to Coffs Harbour and has this inlet that can only be walked through at low tide. We spent the whole next day walking down the beach with our packs on completely alone. Its strange being on a beach for that long and not seeing anyone. Dad says that Australia is one of the only places in the world that one is able to do it. We are very lucky that by law in Australia beaches cant be privately owned, and that we have such a coastline.

My plans are to move to an even smaller community than Armidale by the start of winter. I personally cant stand the cold weather that is associated with the high altitudes of Armidale. The place is called Bellingen. Its a small place on the way to Coffs Harbour from Armidale. The climate is perfect, the people are lovley, and the landscape is full of luscious green fields. It sounds as if im romanticizing it a bit but it is actually that great. There is a bit of a free spirited hippie feel to it. Kind of like Byron bay was before it became commercialized (that is if you have ever been there). So yeah, my kind of place. Coffee stops and hippie shops. Now i can go and hoe the earth in my hippie commune haha :) Actually its funny that i mention that, on the walk down the beach there was a section of it that is a reserved nudist beach. Just over the sand dunes Dad said that there is a large hippie commune, so i might check it out. I can frollick naked in the moonlight :) haha wouldnt that impress the ladies!
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