by Reza Ganjavi
November 26, 2016
PART 1
At night I hiked from town to Chalet with 30 kilos of shopping -- the last bus only went to the train station, and I decided not to take a taxi since I took one the night before, and I was in an adventurous mood. The bus driver said it's only 15-20 minutes. It took me more than one hour (with that very heavy load). I feel like King Kong (just arrived)!
PART 2
It usually does take about 20 min to hike up the forest route -- it's at 2000 meters.
I was very careful about not shortening the neck (which can kill the back)....... and had to take regular breaks -- had a lot of food on me (all the load was food) but it was cold so breaks were short... and I ate a lot. :)
It was very very hard -- but i was also smiling ... i really didn't know if my body can handle it any more..... and my brain was freezing..... so I wrapped the head with my sweater (my body was sweating and hot).
About 3 cars went by and I tried to hitchhike but no chance.
PART 3
Back to the town... for start of Christmas season (it's November still!!) shops are open late and serving food, etc.... one offered me goolaash no thanks. Another, racklette -- had two pieces -- it was soooooo good !!
Shopped again but this time checked the bus........ the guy said, yap, 17:35........... sure enough it didn't come........... oh because it's Ssaturday - well of course..... So back to supermarket to return the stuff ... she was very nice and agreed...... but kept the bananas, being a bananaholic -- the mountain man saw the bananas in my back pocket and thought I'm stealing them -- but we had a friendly exchange......
Yogurt in my side pocket -- an explosion would be too funny !! Walked back inside the cloud -- this was not fog but cloud. Took the forest way back... lovely... especially while eating organic peanuts... Hugged, kissed, caressed a tree. I KNOW it felt it and was reacting positively ... only if a tree could smile!
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Lots of HUGE mountains here -- deep in the sequence -- far away from the sea -- but they were once part of the sea -- and now their reflections on the minds is just limiting the horizons... self- made mountains in mind ... but a mind that has seen horizons, Californias, can never be limited.