After Effects

What happens with your personality and outlook on life after long term traveling, cycling in particular. Several posts about coming back ‘home’.

The pro’s and con’s of deciding to live life differently, focusing on a cycling life.

This post focuses on when coming to a halt after long-term cycling. In my case I wanted it to come to a stop, and when yours will end whether willingly or not, you must know that some things will not be the same anymore. You and your outlook may have changed drastically.

I’m not talking about anything shorter than, let’s say, a couple of years cycling around the world -as a once in a lifetime happening- but all that qualifies for a full immersed life on the road where you keep your credit card usage to a minimum, where you live according the seasons and be as basic as a cycling life can go.

Aim

Aim, what is the purpose of it all? During 6 months I had a closer look at the differences between life off the road, after being on it for 5 years continuously. Deciding to live life differently has ever lasting consequence.

Attractor

Attractor When cycling you will often be seen as someone doing something extra ordinary. This lift up your ego after a while. After years of this extra attention you get used to it and thus it becomes normal.

Maintenance

Maintenance A simple lifestyle comes down to do less redundant stuff. It shapes you into a more ‘normal’ human. One who perhaps not fits into society anymore…

Danger

Danger Cycling the world for years: danger will be part of it. With common sense you can avoid obvious cases of danger. But will you be able to return to what once was? Therefore: the perils of a long cycling trip.

The inheritance of solitude II

August 2023. ‘The cat woman with a sharp nose’. Fueled when I felt misunderstood by the different standard of how I prefer living. Incorporated a reminder of my solo 3 year backpack travel from 2007 through, among many other countries, Yemen.

The inheritance of solitude I

August 2022. A write-up not to inspire you -oh, Lord, no- but to make you aware of the possible outcome of traveling long time solo. And also a little bit about to go your own way, to depend on your own gut feeling.