{"id":145403,"date":"2016-12-06T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=145403"},"modified":"2016-12-06T13:29:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:29:53","slug":"travelling-world-hera-van-willick-6-months-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2016\/12\/06\/travelling-world-hera-van-willick-6-months-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling the World with Hera van Willick: 6 Months on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018You haven\u2019t been gone that long yet..\u2018 my brother said to me on the phone this morning, as we casually discussed when I might be in the Netherlands again. Amazing how perception of time can differ. Thinking back of leaving my studio in Tilburg, now 7 months ago, and the morning of my departure, it feels eternity. While in fact I celebrated my \u20186 months on the road\u2019 just two days ago. Half a year, not \u2018eternity\u2019 by far! The more intense experiences, the more memories, the slower time seems to go by. It shows.<\/strong>
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Since my first day biking after Banff the battery of my speedometer has been dead. I\u2019ve been biking for 2,5 weeks without being able to tell my speed or exact covered distance. I just keep postponing buying a new battery thus evidently it has very little priority to me. The longer I\u2019ve been gone the less the covered kilometers seem to matter to me. The last number I saw was +-6.800km and google maps tells me that I\u2019ve done about 1.500 ever since.<\/p>\n

For the counters, here\u2019s loose the statistics: 6 months, 8.300km<\/strong>.<\/p>\n