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- Dec 26, 2024
- ☁️ 15 °C
- Altitude: 44 m
- SpainCataloniaAltafullaPlatja Altafulla41°8’28” N 1°22’30” E
Altafulla: when life gives you lemons…
December 26, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Sei kurz sour, aber lach bald drüber 🤪🤣
My experience here was, to be precise, an exactly-what-I-needed -but-still-very-fucking-hard Challenge (yes, with a capital “C”). With no heat, no stove, no plan, unexpectedly alone in a country that had largely shut down for the year (no available lodging in the surrounding area, super limited/unreliable opening hours of restaurants & markets) but hey, what’s a couple more big knots to untangle before the year’s end? 😋
I found a place that seemed (semi) legal to park and was right next to the beach, but of course, in the sake of staying within the theme of „couldn’t make this shit up kinda luck“ , some drunk dude backed into my parked van and we had to call the cops, making them aware of my presence 😵💫 so I had to leave the spot I had searched for all day after all… 3 more park4night suggestion fails later, I bitterly threw Blackie in park on a steep hill spot next to a giant dumpster and said out loud, „hmm! Schräg, schief, trash. Passt zu meinem Leben gerade“ 😜 Looking back now that I’ve had a shower and slept and eaten properly, it’s pretty funny. In the moment though, I was so mad that I actually had to call an emotional support hotline. I’m not even joking, those people are awesome, like a direct line to a Psycarer 💜
It seemed nearly impossible that I would find a place to be for the transition 24-25 where I could reflect and celebrate in a form I would like to, and even though I admittedly wanted to give up in many moments, I didn’t. I kept finding strength, scraping the bottom of the bucket, rejection after rejection, persisting and trying to stay mentally flexible about where to go and how to meet my increasingly more urgent and numerous needs.
It took 3 days, 4 Baumärkte, 3 gas stations, a 10 euro bribe, and a sassy not-accepting-no-as-an-answer attitude to get all the things I needed to fix my gas in the van to be able to use my stove and heat 🤣 but damn it I figured it out and got it done🏋️♀️ I shed a tear (okay no, several) as I made my first tea just cause I could, both relishing in my little victory and decompressing the very intense emotions that you build up when your basic needs go unfulfilled for days on end. At least now I could fry an egg instead of just my nervous system 🤣
I am happy not only to report that I found a very fitting place with lovely people to bring in 2025, but also that life has showered me with many gifts since the 29th of December, but more on that in the next post 💜Read more
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