Norway week four - Lofoten
A variation of aliveness and survival.
When you travel the way I'm doing right now, it's mostly about need fulfillment. Where is the next toilet, gas station, supermarket, where is the next good place to sleep? Where can I take a shower or do my laundry? Is it time to cook, take a walk for Freja or do some work?
I move in the flow of life and let as much as possible just come to me (the mentioned things are waiting for us at the roadside anyway) to then check in with me again and again and ask myself which is just an important need that I may take care of.
At the same time, I guess I also tend to like doing things alone to avoid my over-adaptation. I'm good at doing things on my own, but it's no longer an adventure, it's a strategy.
If I have found a good place to sleep during the day, I still hardly have time to get there. The next day the game starts all over again. What suffers most are the work and long walks with Freja. The whole thing is a mixture of living and surviving.
The question from week one keeps coming back to me. What am I doing here in the first place? What is the main need that I wanted to fulfill with this trip? A very important point for me was to be able to work in a concentrated way and at the same time be somewhere else.
The goal of this year was to overcome that and in Portugal I got a lot closer to it. And here I'm probably taking a break from it again, remember who I am again, because I forget that quickly in the company of others. Well, in any case, the focused work works very well, even if still too rarely. That may get more space in the next days.
Things I have already learned:
07. when you've driven a road both ways, it already feels very familiar.
08. You can have two conflicting needs at the same time. They are then allowed to talk it out.
If you're interested in my trip, you can get more day-to-day insights on Instagram in the stories and highlights!
