Living Rootless

Living Rootless is the blog of Mzuri, “an introverted woman of a certain age” who “sells her house, gets rid of her stuff, and goes rootless.”

Sounds good to me. She’s been documenting her rootlessness since 2010. That first post reads:

I’ve sold my house. Move-out day is October 15, and, as of today, I don’t yet have a forwarding address.

I’m going rootless.

The following posts document her divestment from stuff. She buys her first laptop to replace her desktop to increase mobility. She sells or gives away or destroys everything she doesn’t need, conducts research. It’s an entire escape, documented.

Each post is short, but there’s hundreds of them each year so they really pile up:

I am staying at friend Kate’s house for a couple of days. This evening, she asked, “Do you have any regrets about selling your house”? I responded, “Not a one.”

One hour later, as Kate is swiftly turning off the water main inside her house, because her pipes had frozen, and burst, and there is water spewing out over the washer and dryer in her garage, she says, “Yeah, I guess not.”

Mzuri is American and her first solo trip was Ethiopia, which strikes me as extremely ambitious and freewheeling. Since then she’s travelled in Mexico, the US, and Guatamala.

Here’s Mzuri on debt, on minimalism, on slow travel, on voluntary simplicity.

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