I'm going for a walk

I have had this in mind since I have seen his website and done some little walking and camping myself. I love walking both long and short distances. It gives you time to think and liberates you in a way. Whenever I walk I start to cut off connections to the outside world... I feel like having a blank mind and just walk, walk and walk. The further you get into this state, the less you care about things, such as distance, pain, general worries in life and other thoughts that constantly chase you. You start standing still while moving.
To fulfil this desire to get myself free from everything for a while I decided to go on a hiking/ camping trip for a little less than two months in summer. We're (Burkhard & I) gonna walk from Andorra to Portugal and split up there. Burgi is taking some paths to Porto and I will hike down to Gibraltar. We'll have to cover around 30km a day to reach our targets on time. I suppose towards the end I need to walk up to 40km a day. Sure this sounds a little too much, but once we're into walking it may go faster than expected. We've bought loads of equipment that makes it more comfortable walking... hiking boots, socks are essential plus countless other stuff :) I love going into outdoor shops and leaving with an empty pocket. It's somehow better than possessing 2 million pairs of shoes, but whatever... whom am I to judge female addictions.

Here are some pics from our trial walk yesterday. We'd like to call it "DAY ZERO". We hiked around 32km with full gear and were pretty exhausted. I experienced the state of mind I told you about after 25km's and Burgi had problems with his feet (had not hinking boots) and knee.


Us having some lunch



That's the path that leads all the way to Portugal from Easter Germany... how cool.




Break. Burgi's is cutting his toenails... were too long and made him bleed.




Overall the trial was a success and we're looking forward to do this in Spain with degrees hitting the 40's (celcius) in the sun.

Ahoi Comrades!!!!!!!