Traveling with macrobiotic

[neon]

The question of traveling + macrobiotic does interest me a lot. I would like to pack and start traveling all over the world, while eating pure macrobiotic. I am interested in wild nature, where there are no places to shop for 1-2 weeks. The favorite regions to visit are SE Asia, S America, Mongolia, Tibet, India, Russia and all the beautiful mountains on the whole Earth.

I wonder if anybody traveled to wild places and lived on macrobiotic?
I am searching someone with experiences from the adventurous places to give me more courage to realise my plan, because I am still hesitating how to overcome all the problems with food.

I see the purpouse of these trips also from the spiritual view.
I would like to conduct very good macrobiotic lifestyle while traveling, because I won't have another option and clean my body/spirit while traveling and while being connected with nature.
At home, while spending 10 hours at work, it gets hard to eat well. It needs a lot of discipline to not overeat, to not take too much jin foods, to chew 50 times, to eat slowly and in relaxed manner, to spent time outside and if possible walk barefoot each day.
I envision how my trips will give a completely different charge to my macrobiotic life. Maybe I am only dreaming and the reality will kick me hard and return me back to my city house living. But I hope, it will be the opposite and I will fall in much bigger love with the Nature and that I will feel completely at home in the deep mountains with simple foods.

The more and longer I eat macrobiotic, the more I feel being pulled to the natural life style. To build and live in a house in some mountains and be self-suficient. I really like this direction that macrobiotic leads me.

My big problem with traveling is also that I am alone for this. Not many people would like to undertake 1-2 month living in a strange places and exploring the nature. But maybe I was searching at wrong places. I was searching only localy and today I realised why I don't share my dream here. If anyone is of the same feeling about the traveling + nature + macrobiotic, please let me know, maybe we can start planning something together :-)

[Klara]

Neon,

Your dream sounds lovely. But maybe it could be gotten to in stages. Rather than jump into several months, maybe you can start smaller and work up to it??

If you're ever in the States during the summer months, in California there is a summer camp which is done all outside - people sleep in tents, food is cooked over a fire outside - I've never gone and I suppose it's quite different being with lots of people, but it could be a good booster shot to begin with, and you might meet others who would be interested. (you can see info on it in the Macrobiotics Today magazines - Bruce, you reading this, want to give the URL addresses that apply?)

otoh, I think it wise that you wanted to start locally - I feel strongly that having more of our energies on a local level makes more ecological sense than running around the world looking for what might be in our own back yards (wise lesson from Wizard of Oz). In practicality, I often think the mb way of eating is indeed the way most "primitive" peoples ate, what was local, mainly grain based - you don't have to keep it the way you do in the city, but simplify it to fit wherever you're traveling.

As far as self-sustaining, the study of Permaculture has a lot to say on that - you might look into it.

And as far as Nature, well, maybe for now try to find it even in the city - might be more challenging, but it too can be a stepping stone for the bigger dream.

I truly do love your dream - when I was younger I had similar dreams - now I'm not quite ready to run off and leave my family, but do try to get closer to Nature whenever I can.

Klara