After the trip means before the trip
No beginning and no end, no arrival and no departure any more. Not searching for a wild camp site and not eating outside under the sky. Sleeping longer and similar days. But no all-day-life, still not. Some ideas I could start with, but nothing started jet.
Most of the travel reports are ending just after the trip. It is seldom that somebody is writing about what is changed for the normal life after.
I don’t know, If my head and my thoughts are already back at home. It is like, if I would have been never away from home. At first I thought, nothing changed, then I thought everything is changed, and now I see there is everything like it was before, just for me it is totally different.
Such a longer-than-one-year-bike-trip is creating more question as are answered. For example why almost nobody understands what I mean. I went away and nothing changed at home, but my thoughts and in myself are different and developed in a way. So be warned if you are planing a long trip eventually it’s not possible to go back.
In autumn after my departure the leaves where falling from the trees, from those trees which I can see now again leave-less out of my window. When I wasn’t here also everything turned colorful and the autumn with cold humid weather came to gray the wet lands, the panorama in front of my window, everything dipped into fog in the early hours.
The winter and the snow was coming very late, and, as the people told me, more than usual, the young people told, they’ve never seen that much snow, and the older people sayed its a long time ago that we had such a huge amount of snow. And the television told us, this is climate change.
I remember there was a storm in Australia, and the people figured, that never happened before, and the broken old trees everywhere agreed with them. The native aboriginals didn’t care at all, because they have enough alcohol to drink.
Then spring time. Nobody was demanding so I thing it was a normal spring. The summer was hot and the people where demanding again. First row the farmers because of dry fields. Less harvesting then usual.
In Australia it was also hot, and everything was burning, also the pine plantations, and where there was fire, they where harvesting nothing at all. But at home nobody was driving less by care because of that. On such a beautiful sunny hot day, everybody wants to be in the water near lakes. The water was also pretty warm, too warm. The local government had to close the lakes, otherwise the ecosystem inside would have been crashed because of so many people.
Now the year is in the fall again, and it was very dry and too warm, but I heard nobody was demanding, because it was warmer as usual and the people like it warm, in month when it is normally already cold. It could be worse.
After more than a year I’m now back at home and I’ve seen the leaves falling and turning colorful. I could see them falling down to the ground, and the people with kind of vacumcleaner for leaves running around and collecting them, and putting them into the garbage. Because what would the neighbors say and think, if there would be everything covered by brown leaves.
Nobody knows what I mean, so I fear I have to start at the very beginning. I will tell about the things what I’ve seen. I named my project „the observer“ and I have to see that I turned to be an observer. But the form isn’t clear jet. Nobody will have an advantage if I see so many thing and if I wouldn’t talk about. It’s not for everyone possible to cycle around like I did, it would be the pure luxes, but also frustrating because everybody could see what I’ve seen, and with that new knowledge everybody would have to recognize and to change what I’m trying to describe.
Then back at home, if there would be again that much snow, it would be harder to go skiing every weekend. And I don’t want to start talking about the hole technique to create artificial snow. But tell that to somebody, because nobody wants to hear that, even If that person would understand a bit more what I’m talking about. It’s controversial: Everybody is told to consume and I tell you stop that shit!
It is changing of course, everything is changing, but I question myself, if those small steps aren’t to slow? Probably we are not brave enough, and I’m also not brave enough because If I would be beaver I would write directly what I mean.
Step by step because nobody likes to be taught all the time what to do. It’s not an easy topic. Most people surround them self with similar thinking people. Sometimes I’m in a way shocked how people still think and live with thoughts from the day before yesterday. Thats also the reason why I have to start slow and from the very beginning.
On the 18th of august 2008 I started with saying good by, and my father drove me to the Munich airport not far from Salzburg. Then I flew away, as it is with young people. But I’m not that young anymore during that time already 23 now 25. Flying away, not for the first time and not the last time.
A lot of question as I wrote already. You can read about on my web page. There is a map where you can follow the route I took with you finger on you computer screen. Not everything went as planed the former project „Australia to Austria overland“ turned to something else. The planed 19.000 km where growing to 23.000 but you read by yourself.
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