Memory of a beginning journey…

Bulbjerg Knude, Denmark, August 2021

When I started traveling in my van back in July 2021, I thought it was maybe for a year or two. Now, 3 years later, I have been trying to live in one place (in an actual apartment) again for the last 5 months…and I am failing miserably.

Don't get me wrong, the place where I am staying now, back home in Denmark, is beautiful. However, I am starting to realize that my journey is far from over.

But to plan ahead, to move on, to decide what exactly I want to do going forward and how to achieve that, I feel it is necessary to take a step back and reflect on the past years..

There are so many things I have seen, experienced and learned while I have traveled through 20 countries. It has been a physical journey but also a journey into myself, with lots of challenges, teaching me things that have made me grow as a person and as an artist. I want to remember those places, the stories and the people. Unfortunately I only started to write a journal during the last few weeks of my travels (big mistake!) and when disaster struck during my photo-archiving attempts, I realized how quickly memories can get lost, especially important visual memories for someone with Aphantasia like me. So I decided that now, with my memories still being at least relatively fresh, would be the time to write my "memory journal”. I was only planning to do this for myself but maybe it is also interesting for some of you. And if it can help or inspire even one fellow traveller (physical, mental or spiritual), that would make it even more special.

This "memory-journal” will contain photos, paintings, poems, stories, tips, information on interesting places, insights, answers and questions… There will be practical topics but also psychological theories and ideas. I will share what has inspired me and how I am trying to translate past experience into future plans - and probably also my struggles with these things, like my struggle with consistently writing a journal…😁.

So be prepared for lots of variety and honesty. And for those of you, who are only here for the photos, just ignore all I said and focus on those… 😉

The photo above is the last photo I took in Denmark before I went on the ferry to Norway in September 2021. I think it really shows my feelings during that time. But more about this soon…

I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts and comments. 🙂

PS: Please bear with me while I am curating my images, processing them in a new to me Software (all the processing I had done before got lost) as well as trying to figure out how to best write this journal and make sure that I don't forget anything important. This is all happening in realtime, and I am far from being an experienced journal-writer. 😂