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Published: October 14th 2019
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The area of my last camp location, a lot of forest. The road is one that goes semi-directly to the village of Svarstad. Day 46, 10.05.19. Friday.
The weather has been bad for a long time now, with exeptions it's been cold and a lot of rain. Took the coldest bath I have ever experienced some days ago, I think it was monday. The day started as it did the days before, cold but not much wind. The temperature increased a bit a few hours after I woke up. I usually wake up around 6 am, eat breakfast and then go to sleep again for a few hours, wake up again and start exploring and photographing. However when I woke up it was snowing, and I had to get to the smalltown to get some supplies for the next few days. And I had to take a bath since I didn't want to go into the village smelling like a bad night, so out I went, already cold and with hesitant thoughts about the ordeal I was to undertake :/
After I washed myself it took one hour before I had my feelings back in my feets and hands, it was worse than bathing in 1-2 degree water even though these streams are between 4 and 6 degrees all year, because when
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Polygonia c-album I did that I always had the sun to warm me up afterwards. I had snowflakes caressing me this time, but a long walk down to the village brought the warmth back to my body.
Met an old friend from school on my way down, must have been at least 18 years since last time I've seen him. He was curious as to what I was doing during the days in the woods to make the time pass, I replied that I usually lie in my tent and scratch myself :D Yes, I'm being humorous here! After he chuckled a bit I told him I'm trying to photograph and identify species that I haven't seen before to document them through an international website and also going to try to live in nature for as long as I'm able to before I'm too old and tired to do that stuff in the way I'm currently doing. He wished me good luck with my quest and safe travels at the end of the long conversation.
After a couple hours walk I eventually got down to the village of Svarstad, I sat down at the diner and got myself a nice
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Gonepteryx rhamni big pizza. Afterwards I got everything I thought I needed from the shops.
So! I've been thinking about why I've been sick or not feeling so well the last weeks or so. It might also be pollen. It's a lot of it now and covers the tent with a thin layer within a few days time after I wipe it, which I do before I pack it down to move camp. Always before I move, inside as well. Since I move about once per week, more or less, the tent is usually spotless. Still haven't seen any parasites, but saw some red mites at times crawling on my inner tent, they're not dangerous but can be annoying if they crawl on you. They feel like tics, so every time I get one on me I belive it's a tic and start searching for it :P At night that's quite frustrating, trying to make the area that I noticed something light up while not setting my tent on fire, as I don't have a flashlight at the moment only matches and lighters.
Next monday or tuesday my best friend is coming to camp out with me, it's going to be awesome because it's always awesome with this fella. He's not your typical guy, his posture and behavior is so alpha I've noticed most women have a hard time being near him without acting strange 😊 Not only that, but he's a monarch among philosophers, one among tremendously few I've had the privilege of knowing during my life. The patience and calmness that he possess is extremely rare in this world.
I consider myself relatively calm, might be that I'm biased by my own ego, but next to him I'm just a kid that have no patience with what I have to say. He's 8 years younger than me and with no doubt a lot smarter and more intelligent. I love the evenings we spend together, philosophing about everything on earth and beyond. He is one of those that can criticize you without you feeling bad about it, and I welcome his critique about me. He made me reevaluate a lot of things that was occupying my mind, my behavior as one, but also the way I think about certain personal issues. It's not hard to change yourself when you get a decent logical argument that speak for why it is beneficial for both you and society. But I still do a lot mistakes by his standards, even the same ones :P
He consider himself to be a hermetist, like Buddha in Buddhism or Jesus in Christianity only much older belief-system as far as I'm aware. Even if I don't follow him in everything he talks about when it comes to hermetism, I love the way he's talking about it 😊 It's one of the first religious belief-systems that emerged from animism(spirit-religions) that we know of after humanity developed more advanced civilizations and started ruining natural habitats of the earth.
Yes, we are altering nature big time and fast as well, hundreds if not thousands of species that are about to go extinct and more that are threathened by our numbers and activity. Not that we are inherently evil and that everything we do is bad, I don't believe that for one second, but indirectly we suppress nature and alter the habitat that creatures live in and so they die out as a consequence of that. If we don't do anything or at least try to limit ourselves, we're in big trouble. I would like to quote George Carlin on what he says about the earth in regards to nature, but I'm not going to...
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