Kategorie: Preparations

  • Sunny Easter Monday morning ride

    Sunny Easter Monday morning ride

    Yesterday it was sunny, so we „had“ to go outside and cycled through snow and mud to the coast of the Baltic Sea near Steinbeck. We ended the tour in the café Miluh with some yummie chocolate cake 🙂

  • Introduction to my new temporary home: Tour around Kluetz

    Introduction to my new temporary home: Tour around Kluetz

    Today, Sven showed me the surroundings of Kluetz, including the beautiful Schloss Bothmer where, in summer, often classical concerts take place and the Maeuseturm (=tower of mice)

  • One week before take off (hopefully ;-) ): moving out of my flat

    One week before take off (hopefully 😉 ): moving out of my flat

    Hello, hello, hello everybody
    today is the first day I don’t have to do anything anymore – and it feels G-O-O-D 😀 (mehr …)

  • Cycling against the wind… Test ride from Luebeck to Kluetz

    Cycling against the wind… Test ride from Luebeck to Kluetz

    One week before I move out and two to three weeks before the scheduled start of my trip, I did my first test ride with about half my luggage (some normal clothes in my bikepacking bag and my handle bar for wallet, camera, phone,…).

    (mehr …)
  • 2 weeks before take off – fear of the unknown

    2 weeks before take off – fear of the unknown

    It’s only one week before I move out of my apartment and two weeks until my planned start of my tour.

    Currently, it is way too cold (for me) to cycle with daytime temperatures around 0°C + (a lot) wind chill leading to felt air temperatures around -5 – -10°C….brrrrrrrrrrrrr….this morning I cycled for 30 minutes to the public order office and afterwards 30 minutes back – and it just wasn’t any fun….

    (mehr …)
  • 4 weeks before take off – letting go

    4 weeks before take off – letting go

    My oh my, how time flies….again two weeks have passed since my last post….

    The past two weeks not a lot happened due to exceptional cold weather: -10°C during the day is something we don’t experience here very often, so not a lot is happening outside.

    (mehr …)
  • 6 weeks before take-off: current status: panic

    6 weeks before take-off: current status: panic

    Hi everybody

    yeah, I know, it’s already two weeks again since I last wrote, despite my resolution to write every week. This time my excuse is that I was sick…like really sick, fever included, just lying in bed shivering of cold and pain. So the last week for me just didn’t happen. Which doesn’t really help with preparations and the „Don’t panic, everything’s going to be alright“-attitude.

    (mehr …)
  • 8 weeks before take off

    8 weeks before take off

    It’s been a week since my plan for this year „occured“ to me and it seems to actually last this time, I’m in full preparation mode:

    (mehr …)
  • I got it – maybe….

    I got it – maybe….

    19 days after the previous post…. I suppose that has to increase a lot if I want to do  blog writing as part of my job 😉

    Thing is that until Friday morning not much has changed. (mehr …)

  • Unknowingness

    Unknowingness

    Hey there

    Today, I want to write about not knowing and still acting 🙂

    For 10 days I’m now without a job, I still get some money for overtime compensation but I’m not working anymore and for me it feels like being without a job.  Absolute freedom, no responsibilities, no pressing money issues. It sounds perfect, right?

    It is – almost.

    Especially, if you don’t have a plan (at all)…. (mehr …)