Hike with me through Travel, Walks, Life and Entrepreneurship
The feet are the most important thing for the hiker. You realize that when you buy shoes and practice for the Camino, but the real importance only gets through to you when you walk the Camino. You are going to feel them in ways you didn’t know you could. You will develop rituals to protect …
Why I wanted to hike Camino de Santiago? I don’t really know the main reason anymore. It still has an appeal to me after walking it. However, I would take a different route. Life on the Camino is so simple. All you have to think about is eating, drinking, walking and sleeping. You get into …
Together with a friend I did a parachute jump and looking for the next challenge we ended up at the 4 Days of Nijmegen, long distance walking. It is a beautiful event, but the crowds both along the side line and in it is not for me. I finished it in 2009 and in 2016 …
The most difficult thing about traveling is coming home. Especially getting used to the routine and the weather are the most difficult. Life just went on and no one is waiting for someone full of stories about events far away. What was fun and funny along the way may not be understandable at home with …
When it comes to walking, tennis and a few other things, I can apply the focus, concentration and motivation to achieve my goal. Then Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule is doable. While if I intend to learn to program, I spend no more than 1 hour behind my computer and then I have lost my motivation. …
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I am waiting for the bus at the bus station of Utrecht Central. I get on the bus and it drives away. As we leave the station, I notice it gets quieter. Sitting at the station you are not aware of the decibels that are produced there, but if you leave it. There is noise …