I plan to visit a few places in Sweden and Scotland (and likely Ireland, my partner says she'd love to see the first real St. Patrick's Parade in Dublin once things go back to normal because it will be the biggest this century), which has to do with an ancestry thing (not that I intend to track people down). One solid plan is to walk the entire
Rob Roy Way which looks beautiful for walking and camping (my partner like that idea as well).
If I was obscenely wealthy, I'd travel the world, including Antarctica. But I've pretty much limited it to the above as hard but realistic.
I want to finish my main story, but not only am I slowed down by constant revisions I (and beta readers) come up with, but the power outages are becoming a pain (and there was months of dysfunction with one client, gods how I miss her mother as she could be dealt with, and then had to struggle to find more clients, this time not putting my eggs into one basket on that front, which I've finally stabilized, it's just now to see which of those businesses can manage to get through the pandemic, but if they all do they, and I, will be doing better off than before--but all this maneuvering also made it difficult to work on anything as I had to take constant calls and orders, or find out why I wasn't getting them, and I just can't work on my story unless I can focus my entire attention on it). I'm giving serious thought to working off my laptop (which I hate) and using a thumb drive to transfer it after (that way a power outage won't demoralize me).
I used to have a dream of getting a small piece of land in the Pacific northwest where more than one cob home could be made. I was going to make it a retirement community so people could have the option of living their last days in peace. It would generate its own electricity by selling power back to the companies that would hopefully cover the taxes (once the initial payments were paid off, but the only real expenses is getting the deed to the land as well as setting up geothermal, wind, and/or solar). Having a garden, chickens, and a couple of goats was part of it, as was being near a fishing spot (and where water could be purified). I mainly wanted my grandmother to live there, but she's dead now. I might still do it for myself and 2 close friends (and maybe my partner, if it lasts that long and she's interested).
When I was younger, I thought it might inspire others seeing there were better options (cheaper, better, and less harmful to the environment) than the ones being pushed on us that so many hate and yet pursue because they don't see what else they can do. And then I learned such "alternative communities" are almost a dime a dozen and yet I haven't heard of them (until I got the
directory, which doesn't include all of them as I've been on some who'd never register themselves) so without a marketing campaign that costs more than I'll ever have (and also finding a way to make it convenient, all the while either playing dirty politics or otherwise avoiding the dirty tricks of those threatened by such a campaign), that will never happen.
I'm not up for sharing what I've already one (but it's significant), and there's another I feel uncomfortable in sharing and I've recently come to accept I have very little power in actually making happen anyway.
