lukebuehler.com » Link http://www.lukebuehler.com About the life of a pilgrim Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:37:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 © admin admin about journeys, life and profession No No Our Journey http://www.lukebuehler.com/2009/12/26/our-journey/ http://www.lukebuehler.com/2009/12/26/our-journey/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:18:00 +0000 lukas.buehler http://www.lukebuehler.com/2009/12/26/our-journey/ Route2

This is the scope of our journey. Looking at the map like this, I remember how much fun it was. I will miss the walking. It’s about 6500 kilometres (about 4000 miles). Total walking: about 2500 Km. Including my first journey about 5000 Km.

(Click image for interactive Google Map. Every day of traveling is marked and has a small note.)

]]> http://www.lukebuehler.com/2009/12/26/our-journey/feed/ 1 The Land of Mercedes: Albania http://www.lukebuehler.com/2007/11/01/the-land-of-mercedes-albania/ http://www.lukebuehler.com/2007/11/01/the-land-of-mercedes-albania/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:50:01 +0000 lukas.buehler http://www.lukebuehler.com/?p=77 The first impression of Albania I got in Shkoder a dirty but lively city in the north. I stayed there the night in a hotel. People are quite rough here but still hospitable and friendly. They try to help when you ask, sometimes I cant shake off the feeling the roughness comes from a sense of inferiority towards the "rich" wester countries. Anyhow, I like it here.

From Shkoder I started walking towards Tirane what would have taken around 3 days. As I asked someone for directions he was confused that I was walking and just stopped the next bus for me and shoved me in there, before I knew what was really happening I was in a bus into Tirane. Combined with my motivational low point it is hard for me to resist the continuous thread of being piked up by a car and driven to the next destination that would usually have to be hard earned work by foot. As I arrived no one could really tell me how to get to the hostel so a taxi driver helped me out again b driving me there. The hostel is awesome, its the only backpacker place in Tirane and the people are so cool. I stayed for three nights planing to get some rest and trying to refocus on my mission.

What am I dong this for? Why do I walk and not take buses? And how can I keep going when winter is coming? I spent time today to refocus. The problem is that all the admiration I get in the hostels for walking doesn't help too much, I need to see why I chose this and why I should keep going. I feel like the only valid reason is that it is not a geographical journey but a inner, spiritual journey. The times I profited most until now was when it was hard and I got somehow through instead of taking the easy way out. I don't mainly grow by sight seeing but by facing the challenges ahead of me. So with new strength I try to move on tomorrow.

Here's the link of the recommendable hostel: http://tiranahostel.com/

PS: It's true, there is a mind boggling amount of Mercedes here in Albania. The saying is: "The roads is bad, Mercedes is strong, Mercedes it is then".

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See for yourself http://www.wwwalk.org/

Big Respect!

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