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I Want To Get Away …I Want A Gettaway!

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It took almost 15 years, but about 5 years ago, the getaway became a reality when we purchased the property. I now have my little cabin in the woods and now the fun part is beginning with decorating and landscaping. Shoot maybe this year is when we put in the zip line! The healing part was transferring the escape from the reality that exited only in my head to actual reality. The safe place I imagined is the safe place I am now living in.
 
5 or 10 minutes at a time, sit and play music. sometimes longer, kind of like sleep, even 10 minutes is restorative. I dont think "getaway", I think recreation. T says to think root words: Re Creation, like made new or refilled.
A nice long train ride to a good baseball game, now thats getaway, but it is hard to come back tired from the trip and I need to sit and play music to re create after the stress of time schedules and room check out times.
 
My get away is happening right now. We'll after the night My supervisor would not backaway she came in my safe zone and pressed me for info why. That night I had a supper size anxiety attack. I got into car and left back to the house were she was on the phone with my wife. She said I need to leave. On 11.15.2023 I left with my two girls four legs. In less than hour my call wants the girl back or she would call the police. I kept going away she called me a number of times. Except now I was told I had paperwork that needed to be signed in person. Return to sign my wife asked to see the girls something not right she opened the door gently picked up the girls and than talked. Slowly moving forward the office she works at. Yes you see it she ran off to the office I could not do anything. So now I am running away been on the road to heal my mind and body alone. Hurting inside reading post listening to books onwiring my brain. Over 3 months with out seeing the girls. I started to adopt a support service animal to help with the anxiety.
 
Fantasy but possible might be camping somewhere quiet and beautiful. Or ditto hiking. Fear would be a big thing for me making the reality much less enjoyable than the fantasy..

Getting away for a short spell, I'd love to stay somewhere I can see the sunrise / sunset. Somewhere with water you can swim in, a pool or a pond or something. And can have a fire to sit by. Somewhere quiet, preferably somewhere really beautiful. A nice walk to be had. Yeah, sounds just the ticket. I wonder how cheaply I could make it happen.
 
My idea of a getaway is mostly fantasy, since it will never happen. Small house, lots of land, time and space to do whatever I want without other people interrupting.

I do "get away" sometimes, and I like to travel, but I've never taken a trip or vacation that didn't have some sort of purpose. And leaving my cats behind makes leaving hard and not very relaxing these days. So I guess I don't do a lot of getting away, but I'm mostly content to just stay put.
 
Golf vacation - in the mountains. Roughly a 1200 km/750 miles loop to a bunch of the top courses in the country.

Been there done that, but would love to do it again......because you don't get to see stuff like this everyday.....
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