I crossed the longest mountain range overnight in a Boeing 757, last row from the back right by the restrooms. Banging doors, nauseous flush after flush couldn’t stop the rush because, for the first time in my life, I was headed somewhere. I won’t lie, it was bumpy crossing that cold mid-ocean ridge, even from miles overhead, but the lushness of Ireland awaited me. The lime grass around St. Patrick’s Cathedral, wet from rain, and the bells that Sunday morning sang, and sang, and sang. It was my first time hearing the bells, don’ you now, and to feel the freshness of the morning in a new place, well the flag of freedom was lifted. Ireland, as good a place as any for a fairytale to begin.
Blarney stone kisses,
mountains are meant to be crossed;
a new yarn to spin.
D’Verse Poet’s Pub Haibun Monday-Frank is our host. Write a haibun about a Cold Mountain. Join us.
Yard Sale of Thoughts 
I love crossing the Rockies in a jet, so tall and large yet the aircraft glides high above! Your hair is beautiful. ☺️
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Why tanks’. It’s a bit less vibrant now, but still the same mane. I would love to see the Rockies. I can imagine they’re beautiful from above like that.
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Bet it feels great!
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It does, indeed. I have a travel bug that will not let me be. Trying to plan my next trip now, actually. Thank you.
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The wanderlust in you pervades into your piece, and entices. Very nice..
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Many thanks, Ain. My soul craves the new; and well, I can’t help but go and get it.
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I love travel too. Keep planning. You’re welcome.
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Oohhh where?
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I adore Ireland and I’ve kissed the Blarney Stone too 😁
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Oh wonderful. We should both be able to talk circles around our mutual friend, then, eh?
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Yup 😁❤️
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You look like you belong in Ireland.
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Indeed. Was nice to blend in a bit more.
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A wonderful Haibun. I could feel your excitement. The back seat of the plane is no fun. We once rode from Minneapolis to Edmonton in that very seat.
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Thank you, Dwight. It was the first trip like a first domino. Yes, never again did I travel in that last seat. 😂
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Ha ha I can understand why.
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that’sa great photo of you, the intrepid traveller 🙂 you have found your passion!
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Thank you, John. It is a younger look. 💜 I am a traveling writer, too bad I didn’t study journalism to make that a more lucrative thing. 😂
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hahah; there’s a song from my mother’s time called ‘The Happy Wanderer’ — it had whistling in it; you remind me of that person 🙂
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I will have to look it up. I am definitely happiest when wandering. Thank you, John.
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you will love it 🙂
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You stir my sense of adventure with this, K. So glad you are making your dreams come true.
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Thank you kindly, Lisa. It’s a challenge to chase a dream, but I am determined if nothing else. And this one trait has kept me going.
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You’re kindly welcome, K ❤
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How beautiful this is, all-around. Wonderful, K. I’ve a trip to London later this year, am ready now. 😁
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Thank you. 💜Your trip sounds wonderful.I think it will be next year before we embark on our next big adventure. A few trips closer to here I’d like to make, including one to Niagara Falls.
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Go to Toronto if you haven’t been
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Lovely!
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Thank you 💜
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an evocative travelogue, chronicling a journey to the Emerald Isle. Reminds me how I nearly sold my round-trip ticket when I was there!
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Thank you kindly, Frank. Oh man, I can see it. Those rolling green hills and people so kind and inviting. I haven’t met many like them anywhere else in the world. I would love to spend more seasons there.
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Trot that globe, Sister!
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I plan on it, Ron. Thank you. It’s nice to have friends that I can take with me anywhere.
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This is wonderful. Very much excited fairy tale. Ireland ❣️
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Thank you. I definitely fell in love, isn’t that supposed to happen in fairytales?
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Thank you for taking us to Ireland! Love this!
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You’re very welcome. I would love to go back again and maybe tarry even longer this time.
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Your writing is wunderbar! 🙂
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Vielen danke, Hobbo. 🏔
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Ich habe verstehen! After that meine Deutsche is eine kleine crap! 😂
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Ich auch. No worries. I had enough to get by in the market. Ah, well polite concession’s a start in any language.
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👍
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Ganz nein Hobbo Ihnen Deutsch speechen Sie ausgezeichnet😁
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Sprechen errr autocorrect
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That’s easy for you to say! 🤣
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😁my mum was German although my proficiency has faded 😣
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Ah right. I stopped at O level German, umpty years ago! 😂
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Your French is good 😁
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I lived in France for 10 years, so it should be better. 😂
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Ahh excellent
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adventure time! how fun, KK 🙂
❤
David
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Thank you. 💜
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You captured it beautifully. I find it interesting that for you, mountains must be crossed, while I wrote about tunneling through them.
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Yes, well, there’s more than one way to get around them, isn’t there? I’ve never tunneled through any, but I can imagine it would be harder to keep going. Thanks for connecting with me here, Ron.
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Nice one.
Make me wish i had visited Ireland
Much love…
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I hope you get the chance, Gillena. It’s a lovely place. I hope to return to it and write there in the future.
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This would have been a wonderful experience..beautiful haibun!
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Thank you for this kind comment. Adventures and travel have always paid off for me. The eyes open and the heart ready to learn whatever lessons come next.
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It was such a long time since I did any far travels… I remember when I used to travel once a month halfway around the globe for a few days meeting… it took my love of flying away from me.
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I could see that dampening things. I took this trip over fifteen years ago. I think is more about the destination and what you’re willing to go through to reach if, including crossing mountains.
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And so ‘a fairy-tale begin(s)’ – sounds like you have a strong dose of wanderlust 😎. Lovely haibun – can’t wait to start travelling abroad again.
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Your anticipation and excitement really comes through in this piece.
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Thank you. I still get this same giddiness every time I travel somewhere new.
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