Hyper hyper

The usual panic arrived. So much to do, so little time. And sleep is overrated anyway.
I started counting hours, not days, because what do you need days for, if all that matters are the hours until the flight is going and you can sleep on the plane?

Catch me if you can while I still jump around the city :)


Blinding winter sun

I'm a cyborg, but that's okay

As an ex Shadow Run player, I am happy to say that there is at least 5% cyberware in my body. 14 different screws hold my ankle together. As an dancing loving, super-fast-running-cycling-and-jumping around person, I feel disabled. The mind is a very tricky thing. I think, I can do stuff, I want to do stuff and I am really trying to do stuff, but my body just doesn't let me. This has nothing to do with overestimating myself, but rather me not knowing how to deal with a serious injury like this. Serious, you say? I know, I'm neither terminally ill nor do I have a serious condition, but getting you leg cut open, put a lot of screws in it and sown up with lots of stitches is also nothing that heals in one day. I have to learn patience.

And this is where it gets tricky. I am very fortunate to be able to work from home, so I have some distraction during the day. I get a lot of friends visiting, a cat that loves to play on my bed and the best room mates you can wish for. I enjoy my time at home. It's the perfect excuse to watch the-movie-i-always-wanted-to-see-but-never-found-time-for-it and read a book or just do random stuff on my computer. But then the Blues hit me last weekend. Aaaah, I wanted to get out, I wanted to meet up with friends, I wanted to drop by a friend's place or just chill in the nearby park. I love my flat and I love staying at home, because I feel comfortable. But I also love COMING home. Being limited to my bed, the toilet and the kitchen and knowing even if you want to simply CANNOT get very far, was really getting on my mind. But then I realised, I can do about 250m on crutches before it starts getting uncomfortable. I can carry around stuff, because I always have a bag with me - not including cups with liquid in it or plates with food. I can use crutches to pull stuff closer or push away. I can do a spin to put something from A to B. I can balance on one foot, wrap my broken foot around the laundry stand and put up laundry. And I can ask people to do stuff for me and people in general are super helpful.

There are good days and there are bad days, but generally speaking this whole thing has taught me a lot. Not just about how to deal with myself in situations like this, accepting help or learning about the generosity of people. It is a healing process, I rediscover my body, but almost most importantly I learned that there will always be a way. You must be creative. It may take more time and won't look as smooth as usual. That put into the context of being a nomad, I will start the adventure of traveling to the south of Germany. I will do this in two different ways and am very excited, how it will all work out. So far, I have to put a lot more thought into preparation and cannot be as flexible as usual, so we will see how enjoyable, comfortable and "adventurous" this trip will be.

My Backpack is ready, my mind is not

The beautiful spring sun and a coffee in the kitchen. The last one for the next six weeks.
Aaah, the feeling that I forgot millions of things, but this is the countdown. An hour until my bus leaves, twelve hours until my flight leaves and roughly 24 hours left until I am on the other end of the world. There is not much time to do last minute things, so I am slowly entering the accepting phase. Whatever i forgot, it doesn't matter anymore.

Here we go. Wow!

Roadmap South America

COUNTDOWN: 15 DAYS...


South America, oh yeah! auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen

12.03.2014
DEPARTURE Frankfurt - Sao Paulo - Buenos Aires

13.03. - 16.03.2014
Buenos Aires (AR)

17.03. - 22.03.2014
Cataratas del Iguazú (AR)

22.03. - 24.03.2014
Montevideo (UY)

24.03. - 27.03.2014
Este de Uruguay (UY) / Chuy (BR)

28.03. - 0.04.2014
Córdoba y Mendoza (AR)

03.04. - 06.04.2014
Santiago de Chile (CL)

07.04. - 10.04.2014
Valparaíso (CL)

11.04. - 15.04.2014
Salar de Uyuni (BO)

16.04. - 24.04.2014
Potosí y Cochabamba (BO)

25.04. - 28.04.2014
La Paz (BO)

28.04.2014
DEPARTURE La Paz - Lima - Madrid - Frankfurt

About a girl, who does the jack hammer dance

Clicking on the button that says "Book" and by that confirming my flight to South America, I had this rush of adrenalin that you get, when you know something big is going to happen. And it is! IT IS SOUTH AMERICA, FOR GOD'S SAKE! SIX WEEKS! Jack hammer dance big time. The last months were covered in fog of indecisiveness regarding a lot of things and suddenly all loose ends came together. This little click on the button was just the cherry on top of the ice cream cup of life and since then I cannot stop grinning. Again, jack hammer dance even bigger time.

So here we go again: a journal about my travels. My journals/blogs served me already during my time in Japan after High school graduation, my life in the south of Germany and again in Japan and my travels from there. I just flipped through a variety of entries and looked back with a fond eye on silly six-years-younger-me. I still have the need to tell EVERYTHING. And NOW. And with a lot of EXCLAMATION MARKS (!!!!) when I talk, but I think over time I found a more subtle way to convey my emotions of that particular moment in written words. Please don't mind the occasional ♥ or :D or ♪, I just cannot get rid of them. This blog is mostly for keeping my worried family and friends informed about what is going on down in South America, but also kind of a travel log book for myself. For first hand impressions, pictures, ect. have a look at my Tumblr.

HERE IS THE PLAN:
I am flying down to Buenos Aires, where I meet Philipp, my travel companion. For the last three months he worked in Montevideo, the beautiful capital of Uruguay, acquiring mad Spanish skills. I will be part of the first six weeks of his big tour panamericano and we will cover Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, from where I will head back to Germany and he will continue his journey. We are in the midst of planning and selecting, but as you may have noticed South America is quite big and ruling something is really hard for me. So step by step, you will see the details of our whereabouts become clearer.

Oh and by the way HELLO, thanks for stopping by and reading :)



P.S.: If you wonder what the heck a jack hammer dance is, it is kind of a secret thing my sister and me do, when we are too excited... if you get to know us, we'll teach you.