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July 18th 2008
Published: July 18th 2008
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This is going to be a much more personal blog than I mostly publish, even though I have seen and done a bunch of things again, they failed to catch my excitement due to something of personal nature which overshadowed everything else... Instead I am going to write about the downside of the wandering lifestyle that I have chosen and especially one part of that downside. When I tell people about ... Read Full Entry



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Raja's tombs, outside Madikeri
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Scenery along the way to Abbi Falls
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Flower
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Another flower
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Scenery
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Coffee plantation
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Very unripe coffee beans!
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More coffee plantations
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Abbi falls
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Gokarna town beach
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Locals at Gokarna town beach at sunset
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Kudle Beach
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More Kudle Beach
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Om Beach
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Om beach again
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Om beach huts
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Lonely palm on a rocky headland
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View towards Half-Moon beach



18th July 2008

Sorry
Hi mate, I have been following your travels through your blog for a while now. Very sorry to read about your relationship. I guess this ain't the best time for it, but whilst you are in India, why not travel to Bhopal? It's a nice city, not very busy and is much cleaner than most other Indian cities. And from Bhopal, you can travel another 200km to a hill station called Pachmarhi. You may have already been to these places as you have travelled India before i know. So if that is the case, ignore my message. I hope you find happiness, it takes enormous guts to do what you do and as you rightly said, its not for everyone. All the best.
21st July 2008

Quite true.
Sorry to hear about your recent troubles. Travellers like us are always making a sacrifice either to travel and deal with long distance relationships or lack of them, or to sacrifice travel for more fulfilling relationships. Its almost impossible to decide what is the "right" thing to do, we just have to take every day as a beautiful gift and enjoy it no matter what our circumstances are. now. Dont dwell on the past, our minds make us suffer! This would probably make for a good forum topic about loves made and lost while travelling those who manage to travel with each other and those that have given travelling up to be with their partners, its a very poignant discussion.. Speak soon!
26th July 2008

relationships
how ya goin now mate? hope all is well! since u dont wna any pity from me over ur lost relationship, i wont give u any. of course, i always hope the best for u and keep u chin up! look on the bright side...i still love u :)
26th July 2008

You're right. One piece of bad news can turn all the beauty in the world into pointless crap. But the good thing about the future is that it's ahead of you and it's yours. You don't know me, but I read you blog, been to many of the places you're visiting, and I absolutely love everything you write. Agnes
30th July 2008

I have been following your blog and enjoying India through you, as you go along in your adventures, taking me with you to all those wonderful places through your stories, photos and your great sense of humor. Having a broken heart is the worst, but it always heals -even though at times it may seem as impossible. You are living a great live! It could be worst, you could be living a boring-sedentary life and still risk having a broken heart! Hang in there Your Dudeness!
11th August 2008

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I'm looking at all these cool pictures you've taken in this post, yet there's no mention of the cool places you have visited. Cheer up, Ralf! Hey! You could be like a Dutch Ibn Battuta and have a dozen wives and countless concubines, at least two in every country over the course of three decades. And if no-one wants you, I have you! :-*
1st September 2008

Where did you disappear from Gokarna?
Ralf, After you last blog from Gokarna you have not posted any more blogs. Just wondering what happened to you and if you are still in India.
1st September 2008

Thanks for all the kind comments!
I would like to thank everybody for the nice reactions to this post, the wise words and positive remarks! And as for where I am now... At home, I will write another blog in a month or so, the usual in between travel blog... I should be on the road again around half october!
16th September 2009

honesty not always the best policy ;o)
Thanks so much for your honest blog. I am one of those who wonder what it would be like to do what you are doing. I have a very stable life, great pension, home, money to burn, but often dream of throwing it all away to see the world. I appreciate hearing the other side. Your blogs are great, pictures amazing and there are many of us living vicariously through you. Maybe a trip home to decompress will help. All the best.
3rd February 2010

Thank you
Thank you your Dudeness, I related to your blog very much and was deeply touched. Just wanted to thank you for sharing all this.
30th January 2011

My stupid mistake
I just needed someone near while I made money to continue traveling. My heart still hurts and I am sorry things worked out this way. xxx
11th December 2012

I've just run across this very personal blog on my way to reading your blogs about Central Asia...
and note that the last comment was a Sorry and xxx's from Tori. I've read your Intermezzo's with no mention of her since then. I note you have other female friends in your life...single mothers seem to be a theme...so was wondering if the circumstances that led to your breakup may have led to new approaches in relationships. Perhaps I am getting too personal, but I do care about those TBers I Follow, and want them to find happiness. Anyway, have a great trip to Asia, once again. Perhaps on this trip you will finally achieve your goal of overlanding to Australia...with a few boats between Malaysia and there. Perhaps you can cross paths with Travel Camel who will be in Malaysia shortly.
12th December 2012

Tsja, me and my relationships
Tori was the last girlfriend I had. After that I eschewed relationships for a while, giving myself time to reflect on what went wrong. Well, for starters my lifestyle isn't great for relationships, but that is not the reason I am not in any now. I just haven't found the right person. I am rather picky about whom I want a relationship with, so there have never been many in the first place. As for the lessons learnt, well, I can't say until I find myself in a new relationship. Hopefully when that happens I will discover I learned something from past failings. As for Tori, I still am in contact with her, we are friends now. But I haven't seen her since, hence the reason of not seeing her or her being mentioned on any of my Intermezzo blogs. And about the single mothers, yep seems to be a theme. But actually I think it is just coincidence. Or maybe I am old enough to have them. When you are young, naturally, you have less friends who have children, as you grow older you see your friends finding a partner/wife and getting children. And in some cases the relationship doesn't work between the partners so you have a few single mothers as friends as well. It just so happens that I see them more often than some of my other friends and so they get mentioned more often in my blogs. On the whole I seem to get along better with women than with men. Or perhaps it is that my female friends are better in keeping in contact with me than my male friends. Don't worry about my happiness. I would say I am happy and have been happy most of my life, with a few downs in between to keep things in perspective. Thanks for asking and caring.

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