1. Øn my way to Norway

I'm a gypsy on the road, I'm a child under way
Off the busy roads on two wheels, I let my feelings away
On two wheels I want to flee, away from the narrow homerland
To mountain land and the cliffs, with a forest along the waterline
To mountain land and the cliffs, with a forest along the waterline

Loosely adapted and translated: Onderweg - Willem Vermandere

Yes! Traveling is allowed!
Thursday evening Norway announced that the borders will open to foreigners. This was hanging in the air for a while and now I'm ready to go.

Let me be clear that if this trip was for a vacation, I wouldn't have gone. And sure there are some elements of a vacation, but it's primarily work.

“Emancipation is: Sitting behind the steering wheel of your life." - Máxima Zorreguieta (speech 2014, Eindhoven NL)

It was 1894. At a time when numerous global adventures were taking place, Annie Kopchovsky from Boston wanted to prove that women were just as capable as men at achieving great feats. She decided to settle a wager about whether a woman could cycle around the world like Brit Thomas Stevens had about 10 years previously, and aimed to complete a circumnavigation in 15 months.

After learning to ride a bike two days earlier, and wearing a long skirt of the time, Annie waved goodbye to her young family and rode off on a 19kg women's bicycle on June 27, 1894. She carried with her only a change of clothes, a pistol and a placard advertising Londonderry Spring Water; this was part of a sponsorship deal where she also altered her name to Annie Londonderry…

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