The Way Is The Goal

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Let it Grow

Each moment can give you a different view of what is around you. Rain, snow, sun or mist, an early sunrise, or a colorful sunset, they all bring you a different taste and view, a different mood and atmosphere. There is no moment better then any other; the scene is part of a constant change of light and other circumstances.

From where I am currently staying, it is only a 2 minute walk to be out of the city: no cars nor houses to bother me. So when I woke up early this morning, I took a hike in the surrounding nature. Just like the first day I was here, I woke up, saw the hills and decided to get on top of them. Pure beauty.

Because when I am discovering a new city the question of where did nature go is always on my mind. I feel missing it, I feel I am locked up somewhere. And I look for a river that streams through the city, a sea that borders it, a lake, the parks, hills, or simply the nature around the place.

In Salzburg this isn’t very hard. While I am sitting on a sunny balcony I have a first-line view on green hills, I hear birds and I feel a gentle sun. The view on the surrounding mountains with their white tops is very clear and the green on the hilltop in front of me, simply makes me jump out to reach for its top.

So after I jumped out of bed into the world, I found on my walk a little river bringing water down and giving life to the plants on its trail. I saw flowers waking up, a spider starting his day and a sun slowly evaporating yesterday’s rain. And I know for myself I am on the right track. I realise how to let it go, how to flow and  to make it grow.

Traveling is a Virus

To walk along a river that is leaving the city you are about to enter, is an amazing way to arrive somewhere. Not to arrive in a city by train, plane or car, but by walking, by taking all the time you have, by letting all impressions slowly approach you.

From the greens of the riverside, slowly into the civilization of the city-life. There couldn’t be a better way to arrive in Salzburg, I realised while I could see how nature was slowly being submerged. Continue reading

Whatever The Random Roads

Eleven cars, and thirteen hours. A baker, a development-aid worker, a flower-man, a sales-manager, a hunter (!), an IT-manager, and six more random people. They all gave me a ride yesterday, some only for a short distance, others for like 150 km.

At least on the map Munich seemed not too far from Bern, 430 kilometers my online route-calculator told me. I did foresee some difficulties as the roads before and after the border were pretty bad but as long as you’re in a car going a long distance, who cares about that. So in fact what happened on this day, I dared not to expect.

By chance I went on a 13 hour long touristic tour along small villages in the South of Germany. I was encountered with local police, foolish people beeping horns and hundreds of families coming back from a day-trip on the German side of the Boden See, and too conservative to pick up someone nice and smiling, while the sun was almost going down for a a long-night rest…

For the first time I allowed a bit of frustration to enter, but I perfectly understood that not all days can be perfect hitchhiking-days and I kept believing in it. “Everything is gonna be alright”, I kept singing while waiting on a spot where no car arrived.

Until now I had traveled between 50 and 80 km per hour but now it was around 30. I never had to wait that long at most places, but once I had to walk even three times from place to place before I got at a location where cars were passing by and also stopping.

Earlier that day I had already been in the middle of nowhere, close to the border on a B-road, or maybe even a C-road with no cars either. Thankfully I was given a map by the driver who stopped me there…

But then suddenly someone pulled over and gave me a good ride to a petrol-station along a small highway, where I was first told to go back and opt for my initial route, and then I was told to go forward.

I was all whatever. I now had a map, and at that moment still enough time left. Let’s first get out of this country and get back to Germany. I immediately convinced a business man to take me with him in his big BMW, who asked me why I had taken the longer route.

Anyway, the day was nice. I saw a beautiful countryside, very nice towns, and I got a fantastic view on this huge lake with Germany on my side and Switzerland on the other. I even got a ride in a 46-year old sports-car convertible, and just before the sun went down – I saw it literally going down the horizon – someone picked me up and brought me into Munich, meanwhile telling me about his amazing hitchhiking stories in the US fifteen years ago, and how never to give up. At was at this stage I had fully come to realize it had all gone according to the random rules of that day.

Next time you may hear from me, will be Monday or Tuesday next week when I am in Salzburg. Now I will have a small break as I will be taking a long weekend break enjoying sun, love and green.

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