Project VELAIA

My dear readers,

as you might have noticed, I don’t post any more on this travelogue of my great tour around the world. There’s still more than a month missing to the end of the trip in La Serena in Chile, where I finished together with my father at the beginning of December 2008.

Even if I want to, I can’t continue the writing, as writing about the adventures of a single day in sufficient depth took me about 2 hours for the English version alone. Then another 2 hours for the German version and some more time for picture post-processing and uploading.  The only thing I can tell you here is that I’ve had a superb time on the salt lakes in Bolivia, the lagunas and in the Atacama desert.

I have to look forward now, get to grips with the hardship of the economic crisis where the big tail is probably still ahead and find a vision for my life, how do I want to live it. There will be some lectures in the near future, two at the Special Bikes show on April 25th and 26th and probably some in the area where I live. If you’re at the Special Bikes show, come over to the lecture or meet me at the exhibition - I’m very curious myself about all the new inventions and talking to so many interesting people there.

I will start a weblog under www.BikeLust.de where I plan to keep everyone updated about what’s going on in my cyclist life, about new ideas and issues that are on my mind. I’ll try to spread the word about living in a sustainable and environmental friendly way and at the same time having a wonderful time. I’m cycling on a bike, taking the trains, eating vegetarian and trying to save energy, water and resources. Why? Well, it used to be because of my ideologies, but now I’m so used to it and to all the advantages that come with it and I have a really beautiful and happy life, that I don’t want to change. No way!

There are still a lot of things that I can and will do better, like for example avoiding airplane travel altogether. During the world tour I have made an exception to that because of my limited budget and amount of time and I feel really bad about it. Now I will try hard to stick to these goals of mine. For the planet, for all the interconnected species,  and for myself! Quality of life, that’s what matters to me. People matter to me. You matter to me!

I’ve come upon this wonderful series of fascinating lectures online, called TED - probably a lot of you have already heard about it. It’s my exchange for television. Now today there’s a TED wish from Sylvia Earle about the Blue Heart of the Planet that I want to share with you. I can’t do much more myself about it except for political lobbying and expressing my opinion, because as a vegetarian  I don’t participate in slaughtering the sea species and I try to avoid, reuse and recycle as much as possible. I have to do a lot more myself in other fields. Maybe you can make a change? And believe me, it’s not hard to be a vegetarian even if you have not cycled 40,000 km over 5 continents

Ok, that’s it from my side. Thank you all so much for following my trip and enriching this great experience. I hope I have given something back with the stories and pictures and that I have motivated at least some of you to make changes for the good of humanity while having a fascinating time yourself.

Enjoy life and riding. Love, Peace and Great Adventures,

Daniel

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