20-5-19 Vessem - Hem
Dear Followers
All of you will think: Hem ??????
The last 8 days I have been walking and to be honest:
I didn't enjoy it enough to go on.
Physical it was rather OK although the stages felt longer
than 3 years ago. The main problem is in my head: there is
great lack of motivation, inspiration and most of the time
I experience a "deja vu" The daily rhythm of walking, showering,
dinner, sleeping, breakfast, walking etc is this time boaring and not
exciting at all, in comparison with 3 years ago.
I think my "mindset" to start this walk to Rome is complete different
than 3 years ago and once again: now it doesn"t feel good at all.
And to continue walking with thoughts as: what am I doing here ??
you look like crazy !!! and still 2500 km to go makes walking more difficult.
In addition the first 2 months you are rather lonely and I miss Anne, I miss
my house, I miss my garden, I miss my friends (K) and I even miss my dog
(oh sorry, I don't have a dog)
So, all together I have decided to stop for this moment. This morning I took
the buss Vessem-Eindhoven and there the train back home and at this moment
I am at home in Hem.
It was a very difficult decesion, but I hope it was the right one !
For 99% I will do a second attempt in July and then walk only the Italian
part of the walk to Rome in 6 weeks togheter with Anne.
Once again: thanks for all your positive and nice reactions on my travel
stories, but for now it ends here.
Love from Hennepen
Brave to leave and brave to stop if you don’t feel it!
Brave to have taken this decision
I am in a hurry to go on together with you!
Heel veel liefs uit Middenmeer!
Dapper besluit, goed van je om te luisteren naar wat de bedoeling is. We hadden het er al over in Amsterdam, alles is anders dan drie haar geleden, en hoe mooi is dat.
Supertrots op mijn grote broer. Fijn dat je weer thuis bent. ❤️❤️❤️
En, lieve Hennie, ik kijk weer uit naar onze klaverjasavond, want daar ben je natuurlijk weer bij! Kus!
I admire you to follow your intution, even if it means to stop. We'll see soon.
Take care of you
Many kisses!
Hoop snel een biertje met je te drinken topper , kus