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Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Canoe wild camp on Ullswater


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We are the Pilgrims master,
we shall go always a little further,
it may be beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow,
across that angry or that glimmering sea.

White on a throne or guarded in a cave,
there lives a prophet who can understand why men were born,
but surely we are brave,
who take the golden road to samarkand.

Sweet to ride forth at evening from the wells when shadows pass gigantic on the sand,
and softly through the silence beat the bells along the golden road to samarkand.

Why travel not for trafficking alone,
by hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned,
for lust of knowing what should not be known,
we make the golden journey to samarkand.


James Elroy Flecker, 1913.




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Born 1969 in England, I lived in South Africa until '76. In '77 I was given my first sheath knife and I started to learn about the outdoors. I lived all over then joined the British army and lived all over some more. 2013 I suffered a Brain haemorrhage. 2014 with mounting stress from my condition I suffered a heart attack. I am still a student of the great outdoors and now live in the mountains of Bulgaria having simplified my life down to the bare essentials. Warmth, shelter, food, water and the things that make us smile are all we need to be truly rich. I try to be at one with the nature that surrounds me now, and enjoy the simplicity of my life, unfettered by the meaningless trinkets of the modern world that so many seem to worship.
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