Many travel destinations have more visitors during a high season, when the weather is best, during holidays and festivals, or perhaps just because of habitual migration. These are often important reasons; travellers accept the crowds and inflated prices as trade-offs.
Occasionally, even sensible travellers disregard their guidebook’s first chapter (“When To Go”) and visit during the “wrong” season – and they win! The weather is not unpleasant, the prices are heavily discounted, the streets are free, the locals are more open, and new perspectives are unveiled. And sometimes, while out picking wild asparagus, the sky bursts with rainbows, and you really wonder: why is this the low season?
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Hemos decidido vivir sin apegos a un sólo lugar. Somos nómadas digitales y yogis, es decir que trabajamos remotamente desde una computadora, sentados junto al mar, viviendo en las montañas y en muchos otros lugares. Practicamos yoga y meditación todos los días. Hay varios factores que nos hacen cambiar de lugar, como el clima, la búsqueda de lugares para hacer retiros de meditación, visitar a nuestros maestros en Asia, visitar a nuestras familias, la búsqueda de un estilo de vida contemplativo pero con acceso a un mundo en donde convivir con diferentes culturas y experiencias. La terminación de una visa también determina el que tengamos que volar hacia nuevos horizontes. Generalmente vivimos entre 3 y 6 meses en cada lugar, así que podemos compartir mucho sobre lo que hemos aprendido tanto en preparación de viaje como en lo que implica vivir en lugares tan variados como Escocia, India, Turquía, Marruecos, Europa, etc
Después de adquirir una bicicleta Tandem, es decir para dos personas, durante nuestra estancia en Edinburgo, mi pareja y yo decidimos hacer un viaje largo recorriendo una gran parte de este hermoso mundo en el que vivimos. Yo no tenía ninguna experiencia previa, pero Quinn había hecho varios viajes en California donde además fue guía de grupos a los que llevaba a dar recorridos de varios días en bicicleta. Lo primero que hicimos fue comprar cascos, guantes y unas bolsas muy útiles que se adjuntan a las ruedas de la bicicleta y a las que se les llama panniers que en francés significa cestas o canastas. Lo siguiente fue llenar estas cestas con solo lo indispensable para viajar y vivir. Aquí fue cuando aprendí lo que implicaba ser minimalista.
Dejamos las maletas con todo lo demás en casa de un amigo en Londres, y volamos con la bicicleta a Málaga en el sur de España. Ahí comenzó este recorrido que nos llevó a lo largo del Mediterráneo por 2 y medio meses hasta la Isla de Santorini en Grecia, después de varios meses de descanso y retiro de meditación, continuamos hacia la isla de Creta y de ahí a Roma, Francia y Marruecos. Un viaje que duró alrededor de un año, donde nuestro medio principale de transporte era Argos, nuestra bicicleta dorada y nuestras únicas posesiones estas cuatro bolsas y una tienda de acampar.
Les dejo un video donde pueden aprender cómo preparamos este viaje en bicicleta de larga duración, cómo lo organizamos, qué empacamos y que no. Espero que les guste. Viajando en bici por el mundo | Parte 1 |Preparativos
After acquiring a Tandem bicycle, that is, for two people, during our stay in Edinburgh, my partner and I decided to take a long trip touring a large part of this beautiful world in which we live. I didn’t have any previous experience, but Quinn had done several trips in California where he was also a guide for groups that he took on multi-day bike tours. The first thing we did was buy helmets, gloves and some very useful bags that are attached to the wheels of the bicycle and which are called panniers, which in French means baskets. The next thing was to fill these baskets with only the essentials to travel and live. This was when I learned what it meant to be a minimalist.
We left the bags with everything else at a friend’s house in London, and flew the bike to Malaga in the south of Spain. There, we began this journey that took us along the Mediterranean for 2 and a half months to the Island of Santorini in Greece, after several months of rest and meditation retreat, we continued to the island of Crete and from there to Rome, France and Morocco. A trip that lasted about a year, where our main means of transport was Argos, our golden bicycle and our only possessions these four bags and a camping tent. Here´s a video where you can learn how we prepared this long-term bike trip, how we organized it, what we packed and what not. Hope you like it.
We’ve spent the past six years traveling, studying and taking retreat in Colombia, India, Nepal, Thailand, the UK and recently, traveled by bicycle, from Málaga, Spain to the island of Santorini, Greece. Then we were destined for North Africa before we flew back to the Americas.
We both have work we can do over the internet, and travel with laptops and other things that talk to the internet. Quinn operates Strangecode, a company offering website programming and server management, and Alma is the founder of ContemplArte where she teaches meditation, yoga and contemplative art through online courses, blog and youtube channel, she also works on different projects as a contemplative artist, illustrator, architect and graphic designer click here to see her portfolio.
We are currently on our way to become certified teachers of “Cultivating Emotional Balance” and we’ll continue traveling around the world offering workshops and developing an online community of students.
We’re certainly aware we are socially advantaged compared to most of the world. We have compassion for people suffering from political oppression or lacking basic human needs and know the freedoms we enjoy really are only a dream for some. For others, freedom is obtained by choosing it: by releasing attachment to comforts, redefining your role in life, being open to others’ graciousness. History provides many examples of travelers circling the world, village by village, before the days of ATMs and travel insurance.
Some people think we must return to a normal way of life someday. Our bodies will become old and broken eventually, regardless of our way of life. It would be foolish not to benefit from society’s support networks, and invest in finding pleasant places to wind down. This leaves many options beyond the quotidian: a monastery in Nepal, communal farm in Thailand, a little fisherman’s hut on a Greek isle. Why be normal?
We like to motivate people to consider a life lived freely, to go and do and be and feel as one chooses. What would it take to succeed in this? Many presume living a materialistic lifestyle will provide the ultimate basis for freedom. Certainly there are many levels which support a flourishing existence, each an area for growth and development. If you would like to learn more about living lucidly, with freedom and more time for your dreams and your loved ones, please subscribe to our newsletter and youtube channel.
