No idea if these letters still exist, but it was really nice to find this envelope in my Aussie-box.
This was the only communication - apart from birthday-phone-calls to Mum and Dad - when we travelled Australia in '95 and '99.
I always made an x from where we´d started after I´d sent the last letter away, drew the route we´d taken and marked the end.
I´d gone crazy as a parent for sure, esp '99 when we´d mostly been in the Outback.
So in the aftermath I have to admit: I had cool parents!
Also when you consider that Ingo is 7 years older than me (a lot when you´re 23) and we were together only for about 6 months when we started the first long trip.
Which meant being together 23/7!
My parents sure had faith in me.
And maybe it was trying to make good for a childhood with always working long hour parents who mainly spoke about business at the table, no matter if lunch or dinner.
Really, to some life isn´t fair.
They always worked very hard and never had the chance to lay back and enjoy what they´d achieved.
At least it taught us "kids" to make it much different!
With which I don´t wanna say we´re lazy brats, oh no! But when the work is done after 8 hours, it´s done.
Ok 8+ hours and a day off here and there :-)
6 comments:
You're doing the right thing, life is not just work, you need to have some fun!
I remember that type of letter/envelope, I don't think they exist nowadays.
Most people now just use email and normal post is sadly disappearing except for some businesses posting letters.
At least here the Post office is losing money and they have just increased the price of stamps by 30c!! Crazy, I think that will make it even worse.
Same happens here, the stamps are getting more expensive on a regular basis! I agree, that will not help make people use real letters...
I always post letters when I'm away, including to myself so that I can enjoy the stamps. :-)
Now that´s a fun idea actually!
They're called aerograms, I remember how exciting it was to get one in the post! It's one dollar a stamp here now, and that's local..Crazy huh!
70 euro-cent here, but, well, we only have them, they can do what they want...
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