In the marvellous Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian, the house of one of the characters, Chloé, starts getting smaller when she gets sick. Something like that is happening to me: in a few days my contract will expire and the flat seems to be aware that the autumn of our relationship has eventually come: in the past few weeks posters and paintings started to tilt and fall down, sinks to leak, lamps to burn out, plants to wither. It’s time to go. My next move out is approaching and the cardboard boxes for the books are never enough.
I started some light midweek training: running and stretching; I thought I was in worse shape, lungs are fine. I wanted to swim but it would have been too expensive and now I count every cent as a piece of gear for the walk. By the way, tomorrow I might buy the travel shoes: Onyx by LaSportiva. Let’s hope for the best. The lady from the shop is not very expert but she’s nice and helpful and I want to start following signs like that.
p.s.: in the meanwhile I found out Jason‘s channel, full of great advice on DIY ultralight backpacking.
Hey Paulo, I stumbled upon your webpage through Erık, whom I met ın Turkey as well! I’ve been walkıng across Turkey for the last two and a half months (crossed around 1200km) and I hope to make ıt to Georgıa before the wınter. I hope you enjoy the walk and don’t worry too much about preparıng and traınıng – somethıng specıal ıs requıred to due long dıstance walks and ıt can’t be bought or traıned! Trust me, you’ll fıgure ıt all out when the tıme comes! Best of luck wıth your trıp and feel free to contact me ıf you need any help!
peace from the east
Vjeko