Ederlezi

Retrospective

4 Mar 2013 | Le Plan, France

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For the past one year, I hitchhiked more than 32000km, something like twice the distance from here to Singapore, or twice the distance from the North Cape to the South Cape. But still I don't feel like I have been really far away. Not yet.

At the beginning of the last year —yes, like the Romans, I will consider a new year to start in March, when everything restart, plants reborn, life... Wouldn't it make much more sense?— anyway, the last year I started traveling this way with someone with whom I had big plans for life. One would say that life is actually what happen while you're busy making plans, so life happened and we eventually split up ways after six months.
Ever since I've been traveling most of the time by myself, occasionally with some friends... And I enjoyed it much more! Being alone I can just do as I feel, sleep where I feel sleepy, eat when I'm hungry, go where I feel like going, I don't have to plan, discuss, decide, take responsibility, think, bear... And most important of things: I connect much more with the people I meet on the way!
During all that time, my experience grow, my needs lower down, my backpack lighten, my fear are going away... I feel like it's time to leave for good, for long, and for far!

Now it has been something like one month and a half I'm here, at my parents in the south of France, helping my mum at her restaurant while she recovers after being at the hospital. I use that time to read a lot, about places, people, or just read books I can't carry on the way; also to work on that blog to make it richer and allow people to connect more —added the subscription option, the travel maps, the 'like' button, the links, changing the layout a bit...—; well, taking some time to rest from traveling in-between working for the restaurant (yes, people usually work on their regular days and travel on holidays, I could just do the opposite! ;-) ).
But now my mum is better. Now the road is calling. My feet have never been so itchy. The wind is pushing me strong, I have to follow it.

It's only a matter of days...