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Akamas love and one real hike (March 2023)

I committed myself to do my first Sesshin (meditation retreat in the tradition of Zen Buddhism) starting on March 20th which was my birthday. I felt that it would be nice to start “my new year” with a Sesshin. Because of the time shift between Portland and Cyprus, the Sesshin was about to start at 7 pm.

When I was writing with Cindy she told me that she wanted to do a hike in Akamas. It was a perfect match because I was just about to return to Akamas to do my online Sesshin with Bright Way Zen at a super nice spot I had found weeks before. And I felt like it would be perfect to spend some time in good company, getting to know Cindy and doing a physical activity before I would start five days of meditation.

Cindy and I met and did a nearly 30km hike in beautiful Akamas (see it on Komoot). Although it was my third time there, I still loved this hike and I enjoyed doing it with Cindy a lot. For the first time in my life I did a hike with someone else in my natural speed of hiking. It’s not that I was feeling bad when hiking at a slower pace in the company of someone else but still I found it interesting how powerful Cindy seemed to be. And for the first time Cindy and I spent some time together alone and got to know each other a lot. I got super curious about what else there was to get to know about her.

And we did visit the astonishing massive sea grass hill. Make sure you give it a like on Google Maps. Thanks.

During the hike I was thinking about what else Cindy and I could do but found it to be too pushy to ask her what she was feeling about it. And there was the Sesshin to start later that day and Cindy had a guest from coachsurfing.com… So I guess it was just not the right time…

Inviting people to your mobile home via couchsurfing.com sounded like an awesome idea to me and I was thinking that maybe that could be an easy way to travel with someone else for a longer time.

Alien invasion (March 2023)

What’s going on with these little guys? Some are following each other in straight lines like in the movie Human Centipede, some are forming little packs of themselves. Some others are dying totally dried out… Maybe this is even better then being part of a human centipede…

Nevertheless the hiking near Pigenia on Cyprus was nice. And Rosinante found a crazy spot next to a crazy steep and long slope.

Rosinante reached 100.000 km (March 2023)

Rosinante reached her first 100.000 km!

I was thinking how many kilometers I would drive and live in her during the next years. Maybe we can make it to the 1.000.000 km?

I thought about the route we already took and decided to make it available here.

While offroading her steering alignment had become crooked (again) and so I had an mechanic in the southern part of Cyprus check it. In his opinion so bushings of the front wheels were used up and needed to be replaced. I don’t remember what their offer for replacing and the spare parts was, but it was super high.

Because of this, I bought the spare parts on the southern part and went to a car garage in the northern part to have them replaced. In the end I’m not sure if they really had to be changed. Being no expert in these things I find it hard to know. But I learned a lot about communicating and interacting with the mechanics.

Another topic was Rosinante’s hand brake. Even tightening it to its maximum did not make it work very well. The mechanics opinion was that the pads of the rear brake needed to be replaced. So I got the spare parts in the south and asked some mechanics to replace them. But when actually checking the pads we found out that they were still in good shape. That taught me some more about how to deal with car issues.