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Been back to Australia’s mesmerizing Red Centre these days, where social distancing is quite natural. I can hardly get enough of the landscape out there, which is the most beautiful I have ever seen. Compare anything to this red soil and it feels rather bland and colourless.
On a more factual note, it was hard to imagine just a week ago in what state the world would be all too soon. Even in Australia, most inter-state borders have now closed and restrictions are taking place. Whether we have asked for it or not, this whole situation is pressing a massive reset button and what might look gloomy and discomforting on the surface certainly carries a bigger silver lining within.
Isolate yourself.
How do you feel? Nervous? Anxious? Worried? Finished all your snacks and feeling bored now? Don’t only binge Netflix. Take a look inside.
Deal with your self. Isolation is the gift. Be the watcher. Eventually, you will see there’s nothing to worry about, nothing to fear.
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“Man, know thyself, and you are going to know the gods.”
(Inscription at Luxor Temple, Egypt)
A forest along Tasmania’s Western Explorer that had burned a few years ago when there were bushfires in the island’s west. It’s good to see greenery coming back and to hear birds chirping.
Following the Western Explorer Road along Tasmania’s wild west coast. Apart from the road, there’s nothing but untouched forests and grasslands, unfenced, owned by no one.
Tasmania has had a 200-year history of Western colonisation and one of the relics that can be experienced is the Bird River Track in the island‘s sparsely populated West. It literally is a track cut through the rainforest which was established for a railway to bring mined resources from Queenstown to a nearby basin and to the sea a hundred years ago. Being far from civilsation, it proves good fun to ride through this wild scenery with ferns and mosses all over.
In case you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to in the beginning of this year—I took the chance to do a major service on the R as she had started leaking some oil and while traversing Australia, I had been putting another 10 k onto the lady across some rough terrain. When long-term traveling, it seems crucial to shift down, settle back and live a somewhat normal life every now and then. Luckily, bike maintenance is a job that is never finished and it’s easy to keep one entertained.
Happy to have found @kustomkommune run by two actual legends @jimmy.goode and @ninamhlc (big thanks for the pictures). This place proves to be much more than a DIY workshop, it is a social space, great for hanging out and for judging @sveneselgroth ‘s latte art.
