Four Elements House » Life http://www.fourelementshouse.com a Journey from Living On the Grid to Living Off the Grid in Chenogne Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:32:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Life and Death http://www.fourelementshouse.com/2009/05/life-and-death/ http://www.fourelementshouse.com/2009/05/life-and-death/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:52:00 +0000 lagor http://www.fourelementshouse.com/?p=610

A while ago, actually almost two years ago, I posted about our decision not to travel through Africa and why. The reasons for this decision also made us reconsider where we wanted to end up living. New Zealand and Spain were traded for France which eventually became Belgium. Not to far from Holland, and not to far from Margo, our mother(in-law).

Bad News

Margo had to be admitted to hospital due to respiratory problems, that is where she died 2 days later. We (Leo, Laila and Rogier) were with her.
We are now more determined than ever to make it all happen.

Goodbye Margo, we’ll miss you…

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We were planning on an enormous trek across a continent and we were struggling to get our monetary funds in order. In the meanwhile we were thinking more and more about permanently migrating south.

And then the unpredictability kicks in and decisions are made for you and, consequently, your path is determined for you. You start to roll with the punches.

My mother-in-law has cancer.., in the lungs.., stage 3b. Can’t get much worse…

So our plan of traveling for Africa is, sadly, canceled. There is simply no way we can be somewhere on safari with not knowing what’ll happen. It will take to long to get back.., time is precious.

But.., gladly for us we are who we are and we do what we do.., which is.., we adjust and change our plans. We’ve moved up the timetable for our southern migration. We found our perfect future home, we just have to go and build it…

We have to disappoint those who expected an adventurous expedition through Africa, but I can assure you that our coming adventures in Spain will not bore you.

George will be part of all this throughout everything and we will start the adventure September 1st. During our holiday we will head to Valencia (Spain) and work our way back to Holland visiting a few Earthships on the way.

The whole trip will be documented and the eventual “docu” will be posted here.., of course…

That’s all…

Rogier

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