"As a kid I wanted to live in a hollowed out tree, and preferred tents to solid walls. And let's not talk about shoes!"
Growing up as I did in Florida, going barefoot was easy most of the year. At age 9 1/2, we moved from Coral Gables(city) up to 12 miles out of Melbourne so my father was centrally located for his consulting engineering practice.
I became a quite happy country girl....roamed the canal banks all the time, with all kinds of snakes and alligators....lots of peace and quiet for thinking and reading...
Wow snakes and gaters. Now that's the life for a kid. I was fortunate enough to be able to spend summers away. Either at the ocean or the desert. The wide open skies always appealed to me. One of my first loves of Texas was it's wide open skies, where you can see both ends of a northern!
Sing along now, Oh give me land lots of land under stary skies above. Don't fence me in... :-)