by Sezgin | Feb 27, 2015 | SeedsonWheels |
In our long trip from the south of India to the north, we left Karnataka at the end of February, where we came at the end of January. Gokarna, where we arrived after 16 hours of train journey starting from Mysore, is a settlement in Karnataka State of India, south of Goa. It is a place we just stopped by on the advices of travellers we met on the road. Keeping its small town view, Gokarna is a coastal settlement, in which, density of population is mostly consisted of tourists. We stay for 12 days in Kudle Beach unexpectedly, where you can reach by renting a tuk-tuk for 100 Rs (1,5 $) just from the bus stop or for free by walking for 20 minutes. We walk down the hill, after getting off from the tuk-tuk that left us on a steep and arid hill. The road leads to the beach passing over the stair shaped rocks. The hot beach lies before us, on which to walk at noon, one should be either as fast as Roadrunner or as patient as a Buddhist monk. It is 29th of January and we are looking for a shadow where there is no danger of falling coconuts. Along the coast, there are guesthouses after the long beach. Except several expensive places, most of the rooms are huts, walls of which are built by using coconut leafs with sand floor. But anyway, it is not easy to find a room in high season. We start looking for a place to camp, rather than paying 350-400 Rupees (7-10 $) for a room that doesn’t...
by Sezgin | Jun 4, 2014 | SeedsonWheels |
In an expanding universe, in a galaxy cruising in 550 km per second, around a star moving in 2200 km per second, on a plant orbiting in 29 km per second, we are moving slowly. Without a definite target, without trying to catch something, calmly… And when the side of the earth that we are on turns its back to the sun, we wait for the morning wherever the road brought us. All of us; all the living beings, earth, air and water; are travellers on the planet. We are on the way as long as we exist. Because, being on the way is not only moving on the road. In a vehicle moving from point A to point B, if there is just point B in the person’s mind, s/he is just at the spot between A and B, not on the way. Because being on the way is not being on a spot like in Zenon Paradox, it’s just being the way to there. Even a tree which grows and finally dies on the spot it has fallen when it was a seed is travelling. It changes with everything else around it and travels in the circle of life. Since we left being settled and begin travelling with our home, making everywhere our home, we are making two different trips that engage. One of them is on the earth and the other one is in us… Our inner travel is also two different engaging trips, two different trips made together by two people. We are in a place that our trip bring us; Yeniköy,...
