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Day #0

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Odo: 281501km
Position: Industrial area in Isernhagen, just north of Hannover

I just left. Finally. I’m tired. I try to be smart, so I will stay close to home for the first night. If I forgot something important it’s only a short drive home… It already was dark when I started searching for a spot and I didn’t find a nice place at the nearby lakes. Instead of searching around I’ll stay here, I’m tired any ways. Plenty of truckers around, at least I’m not alone… Tomorrow will be shopping day. Since everything is more expensive up north I should gather as much food /alcohol as I can transport/is legal to import. My preparations were not exactly perfect. Here is some stuff I don’t have:

  • guidebook
  • maps on paper
  • shoes in mint condition
  • decent waterproof jacket
  • a plan what I have packed (I just took everything which seemed worth taking with me)
  • a working water pump (just discovered that one)

(posted the next morning)

The final preparations before leaving

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I hate it. I would love to be on the road right now. Every time before I leave for some time I remember everything on my ToDo lists. Stuff is sitting there for ages but I feel somehow obliged to get it done. Of course I don’t do the stuff but I feel bad anyways… The van still isn’t finished. And it won’t be ever. But it’s almost good to go…

I’ve got an appointment in Stockholm by the end of the next week so I gotta get going soon. Now more new projects, finishing what has to be done over here and leave the rest for doing it when I’m travelling. Yesterday I somehow broke the back cover of my phone. Besides the weird feeling of shattered glass in your pocket the camera won’t work probably. Arghh. Whatever, seems I just have to suck it up for now. At least the anticipation of what is to come is growing stronger every day.

Fusion Festival

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Candyland deluxe. No advertisement whatsoever. Noncommercial. Eyecandy, human candy, any candy. Everywhere. Everything which draws your attention is either art, music, fellow human beings or food. No distraction from the beauty of it whatsoever. You enter the festival area and show your ticket once to get a badge and after that there are no controls anymore. You can bring whatever you like. Only the presence of children and animals is discouraged for their own safety. Disputes are extremely rare, the security is staffed by fellow punx or activists. The best festival I know of.

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Main Stage (Hangerbühne). Awesome decoration with four video beamers and a freeform screen. Haven’t seen this technique before…

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Some art on top the salon de bailles. Made from festival toilets

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View in the direction of the Turmbühne

 

Sometimes the universe really takes an efford to lure you out of your misery…

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Yesterday I was in the workshop still fiddling with the rear axle. Some attachment points for the break lines broke off and I had to weld new ones, the screws for the driveshaft were to short so I couldn’t go for a test drive.

Instead of just going home I followed the noises I was hearing for a couple of hours by then. First it resembled a sound check and after that some punkrock/hardcore. Just a couple of hundred meters away from the workshop was a small festival. Weird. Just a minute after I arrived somebody on the stage announced the next band. Ego vs. Emo. The new project of a friend from Göttingen. I didn’t make it to their gig in Oldenburg and now I stumble on them by accident. What are the odds? A couple of minutes later I stumble over a couple of other friends, who also didn’t know about the festival before. One send me a text which I was back at home at 3am. After enjoying Ego vs Emo the next band was announced. Großstadtgeflüster. Especially while working in Oldenburg I really enjoyed some of their lyrics…

So instead of sitting at home alone I was on a festival with friends listening to two kickass bands. Thanks universe, that was a good one!