hammocking gave me back my freedom.
I’m eternally grateful to you hammockers and @shug in particular. You showed me that a 56 year old 2 meter (6’7”) tall cripple can still go out into the wild and fully recover in a hammock.
I’m a traveler. I long to see what is behind the next horizon. To be alone, in the moment, moving through the landscape.
I crossed the Sahara desert 6 times. I always slept on the ground in the open air with an old tarp to protect me and my bike from wind, rain and sandstorms.
Over the years, multiple hernias, Lyme disease and osteoarthritis made me look for new ways to be alone with nature. I found weightless joy in scuba diving, until pain and stress gave me hart arrhythmia.
I never give up. I can still ride my e-bike and motorcycle, but I needed a way to recover on the road.
Last year I googled “hammock camping” and it changed my life!
I bought my Blackbird XLC last December. Hanging in my study all winter while recovering from neck hernia surgery.
I just returned from an 18 day, 4.000 km (2.500 mile) motorcycle road trip through France and the French-Italian Alps. Sleeping in my hammock every night and many siesta's along the way. I’ve never slept better!
When I die, I want to be sewn into my hammock with 3 round shot at my feet and make my final voyage into the deep.
Thank you,
VirtualBotanist
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I’m a sculptor and 3D artist. I specialize in virtual reality and 3D botany. I make my living 3D animating and visualizing nature at an international landscape architect firm in Rotterdam and New York
1987 - Meeting fellow travellers on the trans Sahara route. Between Tamanrasset and Agadez, on my way to the Slave Coast (Benin & Nigeria)
2019 - back on the road, thanks to hammocking. Glacier camping, Chamonix - Mont Blanc
2019 - Col d'Izoard Where Hannibal crossed the Alps with his Elephants
2019 - Great Saint Bernard pass. Crossing from Switzerland into Italy.
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