Not a review about the good sides of this tent, there is enough on YouTube for that.
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Review Durston XMID 1
Tag: Camping in nature
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The only true desert in Europe: Tabernas
Reaching Abla from an unintended and quite uninteresting angle might not have been so stunning, yet I find all the groceries that I wanted in the only shop open on a Sunday morning. Very satisfied pulling the trailer stuffed to its maximum capacity I enter a café to eat scrambled eggs and coffee, the two things I can’t prepare myself.
Comfort’s Concession
The tapestry of being self sufficient becomes complex. There, lilac flowers hanging to dry turning deeper purple against the wooden structure that once held corn to dry, I notice a beauty I would have admired while travelling past: now it’s where I am.
Seeing, sitting from an old barn, birds accidentally flying in while buzzing overhead from insects nestling in the wooden ceiling, I know there’s no turning back into a style that I once, and still, longed for.
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Snowpeak tea kettle No. 1
This Snowpeak pot is a stainless steel tea kettle and was bought for the sole purpose of having it a spout. Using the plain rimmed MSR Alpine StowAway pot to pour chai was always a mess, with quite some amount of chai lost.
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The necessary solitude we grow from
Two posts about being different and how that is not at all an issue. Until you realize you’re misunderstood by the different standard of living compared to others. Two write-ups 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.
August 2023. The inheritance of solitude. A write-up about the awareness 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
August 2023. ‘The cat woman with a sharp nose’. Fueled when I felt misunderstood by the different standard of how I prefer living. It reminded me of (not so pleasant) woman I met in Yemen, but whom I understand better nowadays.
Five weeks off-grid, buried in the Florida woods
August 2020, USA. A most odd experience in the woods of Florida. I never knew how spectacular a seemingly boring patch of woods could be. In times of Corona we were homeless, hiding and alert. View post…
The uninvited twists of the mind: broken boredom
September 2018, Uruguay. Aloneness, solitude, quietude is one thing. But too much of it is not doing good either. To my rescue comes a beautiful hearted woman who takes me in her home for some time. Just what I needed. View post…
This was formerly another post, hence the comments do not fit.
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Kicbike listens to calling hills… Prt. II
This post starts with part I
Like all seasoned cyclists, nervous about setting up my tent somewhere is not an issue anymore. We have done this so often that I look at every spot in nature as a potential place to camp, even when I do not need to camp.
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Kickbike listens to calling hills… Prt. I
Days roll into weeks and being absorbed into our own little bulb where silence, peace and no-nonsense makes for a supporting base to create, grow and admire, I find it difficult to leave. Yet I know that out in nature all that I don’t have in my own quiet green cocoon is present. I call it the magic of plant life; a strange realization for the traveler I was.
What is the thing with winter camping? I was never into it but when I had to cross Patagonia I could not avoid cold temperatures, snow and frost. Heat reaching to a 50 degrees is not pleasant either but cold starts to sit in the bones and makes stiff. Cold has the easiness to disable pleasure and make the whole trip a grim nonsense ongoing rather than a pleasurable challenge.
Plan: 2 nights camping, 70 kilometer in 2.5 days. Done: 1 night camping, 60 kilometer in 2 days. Average speed: 9 (much pushing through mud). Level of happiness and satisfaction: high.
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Wild Camping Guidance
Have you decided to explore the world on a bicycle, then camping is part of it. As the outside seems so much more spooky than a house, the first thing that comes to mind is: ‘Is it not dangerous?’ On the contrary, in fact, it is not so much about danger. Much more camping is about management of daily changing circumstances and how to deal with them. Rather exciting and never dull indeed!