1000 Days of Summer: How I traveled the world with almost no money by Perko Tomislav

Author:Perko, Tomislav
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

Day 274

“My late mother and I bought this land together,” said my new friend Pauly, beginning to describe the history of his place to his new guests.

I’d been in Australia for a few weeks, but it was only now that I started feeling like I should feel when traveling - I was happy, fulfilled and excited. Up to this point I was staying in Cabarita, a beautiful town on the east coast, at Chloe’s parents’ place, and I hadn’t really done anything worth mentioning. I was hanging out with Chloe and her family, trying to find a job. Since I only had a tourist visa, nobody wanted to take a risk and hire an illegal immigrant.

Chloe got a job in Jindabyne, at a ski resort in the south of the country, so she went there to seek her fortune.

“A part of me is looking forward to the time that we’ll spend apart,” Chloe said excitedly as she was sitting in the car that would take her to her temporary employment in a Mexican restaurant six hundred miles away. “We’ve already been together every day, 24/7, for three months, I think that it will do us good to have some time alone.”

After saying goodbye to her, I headed for Nimbin, which was only about an hour away. This is the most famous hippie village in Australia and was where I was listening to Pauly’s stories around a campfire.

“The main goal was to create a tribe that would live in harmony with the beautiful nature surrounding us,” he continued. “We started off with only one tipi, and after just a couple of years there were already twenty of them, with more than thirty people living there full-time. Men, women, children, the elderly, we all lived there as one big and happy family. We founded a tribe called the Star Earth tribe.”

“Anyone who has accepted our way of life was welcome. Whenever someone arrived here, we would show them the way to the river, just to spend some time there and feel the energy of the place. We had a guidebook with a detailed description of our lifestyle and we’d share it with anyone who wanted to stay with us. Someone would show the newcomer around the estate, explain how the kitchen and toilet worked, what the daily activities and chores were, and if they liked it and if they decided to respect the rules, the whole tribe would welcome them in.”

I knew exactly what Pauly was talking about, since I had passed the initiation a few days before when I first arrived. The tribe split up a few years ago though, after Pauly’s mother Judy died. Judy is a special story - she was one of the founders of MardiGrass, a movement that fought to legalize cannabis, and was the first person to hand over tax payments to the Australian government for the sale of cannabis. Besides that, she was a political activist: every year she would hand business plans to politicians

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