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Together in paradise with Cori a very special friend

At the end of April 2022, I picked up a very special friend from the Athens Airport: Cori.

We got to know each other back in Hamburg, Germany at the end of August 2021, and from the first time we’ve met, we have a very special relationship. Our first conversation had been very interesting and intense. I think we are sharing much of the same values and a strong interest in a personal and spiritual development that leads to a more natural, healthy, and lighthearted life. This had brought us together in a wonderful and loveful spiritual, intellectual, and sexual way. In addition to that, our relationship is her and my first non-exclusive romantic and sexual. And what is more, it has been certain that I will start my potential never-ending worldwide nomadic life when we got to know each other.

So, you see, I would say it’s a very interesting relationship we share and until now, I’ve already learned so much and had so many wonderful experiences, that I would never exchange for anything.

For the last few years, I had the feeling that relationships could be more free, natural, and healthy than the romantic relationships of my past. I don’t know if non-exclusive relationships are just a way for me to not confront myself with topics I’m avoiding subconsciously, but for me, this way feels just better. Not because I want to have sex with many different people nor because I don’t care much for other people nor because I’m not able to love. Instead of this, for me, it feels mostly more honest and natural. “Honest”, because everything is ever-changing and why shouldn’t our existing relationships and the new ones we are creating be free to change into whatever feels right for all involved? For me, this way feels more natural, less demanding, less consensual, and encroaching. Not like I’m perceiving the stereotype of sexual romantic relationships that is proclaimed so often in a lot of influences surrounding us and our cultural heritage.

At the end of April 2022, Cori and I had not seen each other for about four months and it was wonderful to finally meet her again and feel her warm, playful, and wonderful soul and body. We left Athens as quickly as possible and headed for the big island Evia (also known as Euboea). On Evia, we drove the west coast south because I guessed, that especially the south of Evia is super nice and lonely. On our way to the south, we found this little paradise you see in the video. We spent a couple of days there and had a lot of fun hanging around in the sun, in the hammock, swimming, running, slacklining, talking, cooking, and a lot more. I felt really good, satisfied and like the things I’ve learnt in the last months really add something to my relationship with Cori. For the first time, I had the feeling that I was able to see and feel her mostly as the person she was instead of seeing and feeling what I wanted her to be.

Then one day, we had a conversation that I let myself affect in one of the most mentally challenging ways, I’ve ever experienced.

To be continued…

Erwin and a wonderful view at Corinth

It’s the end of April 2022 and for the first time in months, I’m getting close to a bigger settlement. After visiting Monemvasia, I got the feeling that visiting human-made sightseeing sites is not my favorite thing to do, but still, I thought that passing Corinth without visiting its famous sites, would be kind of stupid.

Half an hour before it closes down, I entered the ancient site of Corinth. I’m walking in between the old stones and especially the temple of Apollo impresses me. I’m enjoying visiting this place but I’m not sad that I have not much time left to check out all the ruins of this place. In my head, I notice something like a sense of duty. It’s weird. Like I have to be here. But of course, I know that I don’t. At one point I’m noticing that the mountain of Corinth with the ancient fortress of Corint on top of it, fascinates me the most. More than the ruins and by far more than the tourist restaurants and shops right next to the ancient site.

Before I have to leave the ancient site, I leave it and start driving Rosinante up the mountain. I take some offroad tracks and try different directions and in the end, I find an awesome spot to stay. After just a few minutes a young, cute stray dog approaches my little home area. He’s shy but looks very interested in what I’m doing. He looks hungry and so I’m taking a bit of the dog food I’m having with me and after a few minutes, he’s convinced that I’m a friend and I call him Erwin. From this moment on he stays at my little camp and follows me everywhere I go. When I’m sitting outside, Erwin lays beside me. We play around and take a walk. In the evening Erwin chooses a place under Rosinante as his sleeping spot. The next morning we take a morning run together and it turns out, that Erwin is a very good climber.

I’m thinking about what it would be like to have a permanent dog friend and travel companion with me.

Getting lost while hiking near Kyparissi

It’s the end of April 2022 and I’m driving Rosinante on the last nipple of the Peleponnese in Greece. A nice German couple, I met at the dream cove and the Hippie Camp, told me, that the area around Kyparissi is really nice for hiking and so I picked that area as my next home.

After I arrived in the little town, I’m quickly realizing, that not all of the people here seem to be very camper friendly. At the parking of the beach is a sign that informs about the fact that camping is not allowed and will be fined. It’s the first time that I’m seeing a sign like this in Greece. I’m deciding to drive Rosinante up a very steep and pretty heavy offroad track to reach a spot, that I got recommended by a friendly farmer. The spot is super nice and quiet. In the evening it’s covered with clouds and the next morning there is pure sunlight.

I’m driving Rosinante to the place where I want to start my hike through another olive farm. The hike starts super beautiful and after my little hike at the Geopark, I’m hyped at this one. At the first little chapel, I take a pause to meditate. These chapels are so nice to meditate in them.

I continue my hike, pick some wild thyme and after some time, when the sun started burning on my head, I’m realizing that I forgot my hat at the chapel. Having forgotten my hat doesn’t make me crazy and so I take it as it is and do some trail running back to the chapel. Once I got my hat, I trail run back to where I’ve been before again.

After two hours, I’ve reached the other side of the mountain and the hiking track is getting more and more difficult to follow. The markers are getting fewer and soon I can’t find any of them anymore. This hiking path is in none of my apps and I’m happy of taking a photo of a map showing the hiking paths in this area, yesterday. The terrain gets more and more difficult and soon I’m starting to feel very lost. I decide to take the effort of climbing up a hill with lots of scrubs, stones, and cliffs. I’m crawling most of the time because either the scrubs are too dense and tight or the rocks are too dangerously slippy and steep to just walk them. Standing on top of one hill, I get an overview but I’m thinking about aborting my hike and going back because the terrain has been so difficult to go through and there will be much more of this to go through. I’ve no good clue where the normal path is. For a short moment even going back feels to be very difficult. I take some time to compare the photo of the map with two of my hiking apps. I’m getting more and more confident that I got a good direction and a plan to find the path again if there still is one. I’m fighting my way back from the hill and enter a small valley. The terrain changes and gets easier. And there, after crawling through the last scrub and after two hours of searching, I see the bright red of one of the markers indicating the hiking path. I’m happy and relieved and continue my way feeling a lot lighter and lighthearted.

The hike leads me through different sceneries and I love them all. Hyped about the beauty I decided to advance my hike and after seven hours I see Rosinante down where I left here. Although the hike has awesome, I still feel happy to see her again. The straight path shown on the map I took a photo of, leads to a big cliff and I’m searching for the way I’m supposed to take around it. I can’t find it and so I take the longer way long way and reach Rosinante after another hour.