#best09 Day Five: night out
Getting your finances in order doesn’t leave much room for nights out. So, I’ll write about a day out we had as a family this summer.
At Fort Fisher, just down the road from Wilmington NC, there is a World War II bunker about a mile’s walk from the NC Aquarium. My dad used to take me and my brother to this bunker when we would visit him during the summers, and it always fascinated me. The Fort Fisher Hermit, Robert Harrill, used this bunker as his home from 1955 until his mysterious death in 1972.
The hubby and I took the boys there this summer and we had a blast. The mile walk there was a great way for us to connect and explore, and during the walk back we reflected on life as a hermit, forgetting all possessions and the pros and cons of living a solitary life. The hermit story reminds me of Into The Wild and the lesson of how, although it is idyllic in some ways to leave the world behind and live a mostly solitary vagabond life, human interaction is important for our happiness and thus our survival. It’s why I love family time so much. We need each other.
I can’t wait until next summer when we can do it again.
This is a Best of 2009 Blog Challenge post.
A positive relationship with money | Social interaction, creative marketing, making dreams happen & craftiness. | Lisa Ashby (January 12, 2010, 10:03 pm).
[...] I’ve mentioned Into the Wild before. Into the Wild is the true story of Chris McCandless, a guy who gives up his entire life savings after graduation to escape into the Alaskan wilderness. His story is a tragic one, but that’s not why I’m drawn to it. Chris had a disdain for American materialism and opted instead for a nomadic life, an idyllic life in some regards. [...]