[20.04.2025]
Sometimes I think about what it would be like to travel the world by bike & living a nomadic life 🗺️🌎

Life would for once primarily be about
▪️moving,
▪️breathing fresh air,
▪️being soaking wet by the rain,
▪️drying in the sun,
▪️sweating,
▪️searching for water, food & shelter,
▪️sleeping under the stars,
▪️getting lost on your way,
▪️asking people for help,
▪️improvising when things go bad,
▪️making new friends,
▪️learning about new places & cultures,
▪️fundraising money for people in need of help,
▪️living a modest life on the move 🚲🏕️

Yet, for now, I’ll not go for it. The desire to live as a full time nomad is—amongst others—part of illusional self-deception. You can’t escape capitalism. Societal and personal issues will follow your path and catch up with you at some point. Depression will kick in after some months, this far too familiar feeling of emptiness will not miraculously go away.

Or, as Adorno once wrote:
„Der Seßhafte beneidet das Nomadentum, die Suche nach frischen Weideplätzen, und der grüne Wagen ist das Haus auf Rädern, dessen Zug die Gestirne begleitet. Infantilität, gebannt in planloser Bewegung, dem glücklos unsteten, momentanen Drang zum Weiterleben, steht ein fürs Unentstellte, für Erfüllung, und schließt sie doch aus, im Innersten der Selbsterhaltung gleich, von der zu erlösen sie vortäuscht. Das ist der Zirkel der bürgerlichen Sehnsucht nach dem Naiven.“
Theodor W. Adorno, „Prinzessin Eidechse“, in: Minima Moralia (1946/47)

There are things I have to and want to experience before eventually leaving Europe. There are times to do things and not do others. Instead of traveling full time I’ll work on subjects my intellectual interest encompasses for the next 3 years 📚

Stay tuned, take it slow, and be part of team 161 🚩

#cycling #bikepacking #bicycle #child #bicyclelove #nomad #nomadlife #nomadlifestyle #nomadliving #travel #traveling #fahrrad #zitat #adorno #theodorwadorno

as if there were not enough arguments for a #BasicUniversalIncome and coverage by a non profit oriented universal health insurance. look (also) at what this #COVID19 thing is only starting to do to people in #precarity, #nomadliving, #freelancing and #ART. for starters.

If someone has any experience about nomad living and housing and is willing to talk with me about it, I'd be grateful. Bonus points if you're in Europe (especially France), unable to work, a woman, trans and/or a PoC.

Si quelqu'un a de l'expérience avec la vie et les habitats nomades et veut bien en parler avec moi, je vous en serais reconnaissant. Bonus si vous êtes en Europe (France surtout), ne pouvez pas travailler, êtes une femme, trans et/ou racisé-e.

#nomad #nomadliving