Patagonia Fantastica Espectacular
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Mar 01, 2006
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Dec 01, 2007
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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On the how and why I chose to write what I wrote in my Patagonian entries...
There are lands far away, places that cannot be reached directly: to get there, at the very least you have to cross an Ocean and a Continent. Places like Western Australia, New Zealand, Laponia, Kamchatka, Yukon, Tasmania, Groenland, Patagonia...
These places command great expectations. Going there can kill the dream... but to me, visiting some of these places gave body to their mythical stature.
At this point I have to go back on my trip: I had tried, during over 10 months, to make a few things every single day:
- see a new place or look with different eyes at a known one
- meet new people, or share something new with someone I knew
- try to do something I had never done before, or startover something else
- feel the new day, or just feel life
The result of that was that every day has been good. Many have been great. Some have been exceptional. And I was able to try to share the feeling I had, when I was in a place or a situation that so particularly touched me.
Patagonia was a bit different, in that every single day was exceptional.
You could get a glimpse of that throught the photos.
But I gave up trying to explain every day how exceptional that day was.
Not that I got used to it... On the contrary, my senses were fully receptive, my mind was always ready to take it all in, like if I had just come out of an idle week.
It is just that I could not write it. It is just that with words I would have spoiled the magic, making the experience look like any other one.
So I wrote about everyday little things, details, and maybe sometimes just a plain boring chronology of what I had done. But when I read it, when I look back at my photos, I am back there instantly...
There is, especially in France, a great deal of fantasy, of dream, associated with Patagonia. I had this in me, I was expecting much. But not that much.
After leaving BsAs and heading south, it took me more than 7 weeks to get back to northern Patagonia... And I would have stayed longer, believe me. I had to make choices, and I hate to think about the things I "missed".
So even thought I did not get emphatic in my entries... I had a fantastic time, a glimpse of wonderland, a neverending and ever-refreshing connection with Earth and Nature.
That's all. If you have this dream, go there have a look. A long look.
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