For Doug Porteous, solo road trips are pure bliss
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines atBliss, at age 75, is a solo road-trip. Book the flight, reserve the car, then take off, relying only on contingency and chance, synchronicity and serendipity.
I often take a paved side road and run it to where the pavement gives way to gravel or dirt . Sometimes there’s a free cable ferry across the lake to an otherwise cut-off hamlet on the other side. The smell of hot horses or a sweet cow byre might greet me or a corral of ponky goats. I may encounter locals, Indigenous, Mennonites, Doukhobors, a gold prospector, a trapper, a buyer of wild mushrooms: people on the edge, they are always interesting.
I have chosen the hotel at random, on the fly. No one in the world knows where I am. What a blessing. No bad stress. No desk. No mail. No distractions to distract me from my distractions. No phone calls with scams, surveys, political or personal appeals. No neighbours. No conversation, period, once off the road; I have neither cellphone nor smartphone. There’s no-one I can help. There’s no one to help me. No deeds to do, no promises to keep.
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