Tag: Winter

It is SAD II

Every burst of sunlight is an immediate thrust of a lance, straight through my brain and heart and the only decision on such winter days are which way I go. Left or right? It isn’t that difficult, yet with the knowledge that neither left nor right is anything to see, I have to be positive and find something to go to. The cabinet of my brain is filled with connections to forgotten tombs and chapels. I can braid together the multiple forests paths to a maze of sense. Read more

Previous part of this post: It is SAD I

Tags Cat woman, deer, Forest, Forest walks, Home, Intentional Camera Movement, Kickbike, Nature, Seasonal Affective Disorder, snow, The woods, Travel will change you for good., Winter, Winter in Hungary, winter mood

Hungary Thoughts

It is SAD

A few days sun means I could make a short kickbike tour to the hills. They will feed my needed portion of wonderment. Even though the nearby Hungarian hills are not that spectacular, it will give me more the view that bald trees provide me with. Read more

Part II

Tags Cat woman, Forest, Forest walks, Home, Intentional Camera Movement, Kickbiking, Nature, Photography, Seasonal Affective Disorder, seasons, snow, The woods, travel, Travel will change you for good., Winter, Winter in Hungary, winter mood

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Winter Reset

I know most people who read this are not interested in vegetables, and the thing is, I wasn’t so much either a couple of years ago. Same when I met a Dutch cyclist in Pakistan, I was not interested the slightest bit (a few years prior that I cycled 50.000 kilometres). May I try to inspire you once more, and promised, the next time with a touring story.

Tags Being Outside, cold, Cooking, Gardening, Grow, Growing vegetables, Home, Homegrown, Homemade, Update, Winter, Winter in Hungary, Work to do

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Southwest Balaton Tour

Distance made: 65 kilometer. Average speed: 7.6. Number of nights: 5. Coldest temperature: minus 7.

Every time Geo and I drive in the car with lake Balaton quietly looming in the distance, the low series of mountains sharply contrasting, appearing to be a man-made painting, I feel a strong desire to be on those hills, looking out over the lake and absorbing the unrealistic looking shapes embracing the lake.

Tags Béndekpuszta, Camp fire, cold, Countryside, Fáncsi-hegy, Halsok árok, Hungary, Kárad, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kickbiking, Off Road Tracks, Stealth camping, Vityapuszta, Wild camping, Winter, Winter Cycling, Winter in Hungary

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Comfort’s in sunshine, sweetness’ in the discomfort

Post author By Cindy
Post date December 2, 2021
3 Comments on Comfort’s in sunshine, sweetness’ in the discomfort

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.

Tags Camping in nature, cold, Countryside, Down sleeping bag, Forest, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kickbiking, Little escape, Outdoor, Short story, Short Update, Sleeping bag, Sleeping in the woods, Winter

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A (failed) Winter Tour

Daytime temperature: zero. Daylight hours: 7 AM to 4.30 PM. Distance: a stunning 13 kilometers.

A short tour in January stretching from east to west at the North Balaton in Hungary is a very plausible plan.

Tags Balaton, Balaton lake, cold, Flat tires, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kickbiking, Lake Balaton, North Balaton, repair, Repair & Spare, Rubber solution, Winter

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Minuses of living in a truck in winter

Post author By Cindy
Post date September 30, 2019
9 Comments on Minuses of living in a truck in winter

There is no need to debate whether a truck is better in cold and wet weather than a tent. A truck has the advantages a house might give yet it has not the prison-alike feeling of a house.