30.07.2025
After some really emotional days, we didn’t see a way. Didn’t want to overburden Keith’s hospitality, didn’t feel like staying on this place any longer, didn’t know what to do about the cabin in the woods. Even travelling seemed a bit hopeless: nature was starting to get flooded by cows who mow down the frass thet we need to keep the horses happy, forest fires in all corners of the state, and looking northwards on the map, we found nothing but Deserts, Big citys or steep high mountainous areas… none of the above are good places for us to travel with our carriage…
Feeling a little lost inbetween worlds, we decided to pack up the carriage and go. Because that’s what we do and that’s what makes our world go round. We had the carriage almost loaded and just went to the little Mercantile to get some veggies for the next day.
When we got back to Keith’s abandoned house’s backyard that we called home for a week, a man tapped me on the shoulder from behind and mumbled something about a job and gunpowder and the carriage. I didn’t really understand but he said we should deliver ice to a festival… well, if that’s the universe, giving us an answer to our prayers… yes, we would love to! Tell us all about it!
Two days later we dived into a different world. A town setup with white canvas tents in the middle of the woods. People walking around with buckskins and moccasins, carrying Long rifles on their backs, or pulling their children in wooden wagons.
Without knowing, we stumbled into a so called “Rendezvous”… a group of over hundred people, celebrating and living the old ways (before 1840) no phones or cars, no generators, no hustle. A time travel into the time of trappers and fur traders, of Indians and muzzle loaders (blackpowder guns). And we in the middle of it with our carriage and the outfits we wear everyday that fit right in. It felt surreal, like people coming for a visit into the life we had chosen by our selves. That was so cool! Because so many times we had wished not to be alone in the forest, hoped for people coming together to recall the old ways, of living with nature… and here they were: a few hundred people, doing exactly that. Even though it was just a week for them,d after which they would go back into their normal life, but for us, that was a big relieve, to see that there are still people, keeping this spirit alive. That its not just us, who are hoping for the world to change and for some things to go back to how things used to be, before the whole world went mad…
For entire 3 days we worked with the team as the Ice deliverer. It was a tough job for all of us, but we had sooo much fun and beautiful encounters, this was the perfect job and the perfect world for a few days! Three more days we just enjoyed the festival, enjoyed jummy food, found beautiful things on the market (that we didn’t dare to buy because we didn’t know if to stay in the mountain cabin or to travel on)
Now I will let the Pictures speak for themselves… I hope you enjoy as much as we did!