Liberty of Loving Life

Before I became a mother and met Mister K, I traveled quite a bit. I did a 3-month backpacking trip through Europe, visited the great cities of Canada via bus, and ventured into the United States and Mexico for a time. When I became a mother, life changed and events like backpacking through continents just didn’t seem feasible anymore. I settled into this idea that all holidays should be with your children.

Mine are excellent travelers and have sat many days in the back seat of my car. For us, it’s a six-hour drive to a city that offers anything and everything we could want to do, 15 to the nearest saltwater beach, and that’s only if you drive straight through. Flying almost anywhere from Canada is an expense that seems a frivolous waste, although, at one time, I wouldn’t have thought twice about spending $1000 on travel. We did make the trip to the Pacific once though, via car, helping our kids in their dreams to set foot in each of the seven oceans. We’re hoping to take a trip to the Atlantic in the next couple of years. It’s a 4-day drive, with children in tow.

Setting Sights

While we have traveled to many places, we haven’t taken a trip outside of Canada, which to me seems fine. Canada’s a big place, with lots to do and see. It has diverse landscapes and cultures, vast urban centers, and remote places you could get lost in only to find your soul. My kids think that’s just silly. The world is out there waiting for them to cast their eyes upon its wonders. To leave their mark as they witness the marks left by those before them. They should see, because they can. Of course they are right, and I guess I felt the same at one time and maybe like anywhere was better than here. I don’t regret my travels as learning about a culture is best done by being emerged in it, but I do wish I had done it for better reasons. Looking back, it seems I wasted some great opportunities.

Now that I am comfortable in myself and the life I live, I have different aspirations about how to spend my time. Mister K doesn’t take much time off, so anything more than a couple of days away is usually out of the question, anything longer then that is planned well in advance. We don’t mind though as we like our life at home and enjoy our space and the time we get to spend together in it. But Mister K has never traveled outside of Canada, and just like my children, he has an itch to breathe the history of past civilisations, see the marvels of his ancestral home and walk where great warriors have stood before. I hope there comes a time when this is reality.

In the meantime, we will continue to have our mini stay-cations, close to home, but far enough away to be elsewhere.

Time Away with Mister K

Mister K and I have never taken more than 2 days for just the two of us. And even then, very rarely. When we have taken the time, we often fill the days away with so many activities that we’re so exhausted at the end that sleep is the only thing on our minds. If I had it my way we would take a whole week spent on a sunny beach. Our naked bodies kissed by the sun, our bums planted in the sand. Sleeping when we want, fucking where and when we choose. Somewhere that I am not anyone but who I am, we carry no other titles than submissive and Sir. That vision alone could fill my bucket list.

Keeping it Kinky

Along with our evolution in D/s, has come a desire to visit places for the lifestyle events that they hold. Cities all over the world hold conferences and festivals celebrating kinks and Fetishes. Places where not only can you be yourself, but are encouraged to do so. While I have been to events and parties, munches, and the like, I think an international event would be an exceptional time. I would love to attend any of the vast arrays of events in Europe, but for now, I’ve set my sight on the events in Canada. The Montreal Fetish Weekend or the Vancouver Fetish Weekend, both being at the top of my list.

Even though I still aspire to delight in new experiences and see new sights, I don’t really have the desire that I used to for travel and time away. I’ve finally found the life I wanted, even if it was in a way I never would have imagined, and I live it taking it day by day. While I enjoy the time I get to spend away from laundry and chores, tasks, and formalities, I’m in no rush to go somewhere else like I once was. My life with Mister K brings me contentment and joy, and I think that having a life I don’t need a vacation from is something yearned for by many.

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