I laughed, I cried, I felt fear and pain and also a lot of joy and happiness.
All that and even more happened to me during my two months of travel.
As I tried to expect hardly anything from this trip, I had such great luck almost all the time that I still can't believe it!
Now that I am home again in my very small village in Germany where it starts raining every once in a while and with all the people passing by my window I can recognize, I am thinking hard about my colorful time I had this summer.
So where did I go?
Spain it was!
From the south to the west, hitting up Portugal and then back to the centre of this beautiful (and hot!) country. Continuing in the cold and windy north with direction Basque country and finally finishing the adventure in my beloved Catalonia.
Short version for a long and great time I had, but enough to just give you and overlook of the places I've been to, because if I would list all these different places to noone would continue reading (if at least anyone does until now).
The thing I like to talk about in this 'Post Travel' blogpost is the feelings and thoughts I now have after I've finished the journey and what feelings I had during it that I can remember.
Because as everyone of you travellers knows, when you travel your mind sometimes plays crazy tricks on you or acts differently than in your normal ordinary life.
To me it seemed like I felt a hundred percent more than when I am at home. There are so many new things to see, smell and touch...whether you just take a quick walk in the surrounding of the place you're staying in or you are on a day trip to a more far away destination. They are just everywhere.
And then there are too, the people you meet on the road. I learnt that a short moment with a stranger on the road, whether it's asking for a destination or just bumping into each other :D can mean even more to you than a whole friendship...to me, that's only what I felt like. Of course for everyone and every situation it's totally different. But I lost my heart so many times to several people on the raod, as well as places, beaches or terrasses (one of my favourites!).
You never know what will happen to you, who or what you will fall in love with that will give you some kind of heartache. There's a nice quote by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran that describes very well the way I felt like so often on the road:
TRAVELLING IS LIKE FLIRTING WITH LIFE
It's like saying: " I would stay and love you, but I have to go, this is my station. "
The thing is, you can prepare for everything but not for your randomly occuring feelings on travel ( as well as a drop of 30° inbetween only 4 hours of driving )
My advice is to let things happen, try to accept and embrace also even less comfortable situations but saying no or leaving when something stinks.
Also not to put too much preparation in it because if you do it like me, 3 month in advance it will drive you nuts . In fact, when you finally set off you don't want to read your 100 pages self-printed travel guide all the time, you better live and be spontaneous in all kind of ways, especially when it comes to changing your "travel route" :)
Hope you enjoyed this post and my confused writing! Have you ever been in this big "post-travel-mood" after a longer trip. You know what I mean? Yes, exactly, that feeling when you don't know what to do with your life after arriving at home. Tell me your story! (and maybe some tips how I can overcome it better :) )
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