One month already

Hard to believe it went so quickly. Tomorrow, it will already be a month that I am on the road. A few days before, it was my last day at work and long goodbyes to my father and my brother to start this adventure through the good world.

With nearly 1 km behind the shorts, and more than twenty nights in wild camping, I am gradually starting to give up the life of clean shirts. On this last day at work, I had brought my bike and gear to the office so that my colleagues could see what I had chosen to bring on my near world tour. Everything was so new!

At the time of writing this, one of my saddlebags has already broken and I had to patent it with rubber bands while waiting for a better repair. I have also already more than monetized my purchase of tenacious tape repairing several of my bags and some clothes. And yesterday, horror, I dropped my camera, smashing the screen in my eye, and my heart at the same time.

On my last day at the office, my colleague Nancy had baked me a special cake and I received as a gift my now famous gray long-sleeved sweater that I have worn every day for a month! (with 2 or 3 washes, don't worry).

Before I left, I hardly had time to think about what I would experience on the road. With work until the last minute, my move and my album launch, I found myself at the airport on autopilot.

And strangely enough, I have less free time since I left than I had at home. I am more and more used to my daily schedule, but between the few times I have access to the internet, I keep on going! Obviously, I have to cycle for several hours a day, but I also stop very often to take pictures. What you see on this site or on my Facebook being only part of it.

I meet a lot of people, often have short or long conversations with them. I do my grocery shopping every two days or so. When you carry everything with you all the time, you are more selective in what you buy! And of course, most days, I have to find a place to pitch my tent and set up camp. Sometimes I'm lucky and it's fast, but sometimes it can take me four or five tries to find a relatively dry, level place, off the road but not too far from my course. And this not too early, but before the sun is too low.

In short, my life has changed a lot in the last month. Despite the challenges - weather, equipment, physical and (slightly) mental - I am aware that I am still in the easy part of my trip. This will certainly get complicated when I no longer understand languages ​​and alphabets. Or when the weather gets even better interesting. But then I will be ready to face these new adventures. Thanks in large part to your continued support through your encouragement, emails and other messages. Thank you for being part of the good world.

I am happy about this month. And happy that there are still eleven left!