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Frances Leader's avatar

I got utterly disgusted by living in the UK in 2003 so I sold up everything I had, bought a Hi-top Leyland DAF with a Peugeot engine and virtually no electrics. Fitted a bed, a gas cooker, an air-vent and various creative storage spaces. Piled two dogs and a cat into it and took off for Europe. You know what was the very best bit? No plan. None. Just a map at the end of each day and a search for the next wild place, riverbank, lake or mountain waterfall. I did 20,000 miles before I stopped and settled down in an off-grid fruit farm on the foothills of the Sierra de Gredos in central Spain.

It was the best thing I ever did in my life.

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Sandra's avatar

Chris, you should move. My family and I left Massachusetts because of the craziness for Florida. I feel so much more at peace.

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