{"id":159962,"date":"2017-07-12T08:46:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T08:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=159962"},"modified":"2017-07-12T08:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T08:46:31","slug":"travelling-world-hera-van-willick-filming-costa-rica-flew-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/07\/12\/travelling-world-hera-van-willick-filming-costa-rica-flew-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling the World with Hera van Willick: Filming In Costa Rica And Why I Flew Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the sofa, in the living room of my mum\u2019s house in Tilburg, with the Tour the France on TV in the background, it\u2019s hard to imagine that two weeks ago I was riding my bike in Honduras.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>But I was.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I rode into Honduras after crossing through beautiful El Salvador. Honduras seemed a lot rougher than its neighbors. I didn\u2019t really feel unsafe but I could tell that life in Honduras was harder and the Hondurans more hardened. I passed a wagon pulled by oxen and one ox dropped to the ground over and over, he was sick and tired I guess. The men hit him with a reed and the dogs bite his skin trying to drag him to his legs as the men stood there laughing. It was a painful sight. Honduras was less lively, less friendly and it was a big change when I crossed the border into Nicaragua. A host there told me that Nicaragua has no gang. Every sign of gangsters or gangs forming is reported to the police and acted upon.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-159962 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6160057.webp'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6160057-1024x683.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6160057-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6160057-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6160057-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6160057-272x182.webp 272w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6160057.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6140024.webp'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6140024-1024x683.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6140024-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6140024-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6140024-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6140024-272x182.webp 272w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6140024.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6140022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-159979\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6140022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking back at Central America now I feel like I raced through. And in a way that\u2019s true, even though it didn\u2019t feel like that at the time. Something that very much made an impression on me was the ongoing unwanted attention from men. Even more now I\u2019m far away I feel how much that marked my weeks there. I can\u2019t deny that it worries me a little regarding South America. It doesn\u2019t scare me, but it raises the question if I want to deal with that kind of annoyance at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>In Nicaragua I got caught in several heavy rain showers on my way to Costa Rica. The morning of my last riding day it wouldn\u2019t stop raining and I just didn\u2019t feel like taking off in the pouring rain and ended up leaving hours later. A last day on the bike can swing two ways; either you want it to last forever or its heavy as hell and you want to get it over with. I planned 114 kilometers and they were heavy as hell. As if my legs decided that a 16900 something kilometers had been enough and this was one day to many. In the previous week I\u2019d ridden several 100+ days with a maximum of 139km, my longest day on this trip.<\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=aDETTZhEYY8 params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/aDETTZhEYY8\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p>In Liberia, the first city in Costa Rica, I had arranged to meet with Scott Hardesty. I met Scott for the first time in Banff at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. He took part in the Adventure Film Making Workshop and I was volunteering at the festival. For an assignment of the workshop he asked me to participate in a video he would make with three fellow students.<\/p>\n<p>Encouraged by his teacher and many positive responses we decided to continue our collaboration. We met again in Death Valley where we spend three days filming. With the footage we shot there combined with the footage of Banff and my own camera Scott edited a trailer that we used send a pitch to a few companies looking for financial support for a bigger project. Only five weeks ago we got word from We Love Cycling that they wanted to support us. Within a few days Scott and I made a plan and in the weeks after we prepared (while both on the road) and met in Liberia on June 21. Scott arrived with two heavy backpacks filled with cameras and I with a storyline and exhausted from a week of long riding days and the realization sinking in that after 13 months the pure bike travelling was over for a bit now. We toured around Costa Rica for a week filming the daily life of a bicycle traveler in Central America. We were guests with Jorge, a college friend of Scott, in the touristic coast town Samara and at the organic rice and sugarcane farm of Esteban and Irene near Ca\u00f1as.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/IMG_9076-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-159977\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/IMG_9076-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/IMG_8863-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-159973\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/IMG_8863-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"813\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spend an intense week filming and brainstorming. After this week we split up and the practical part of postproduction is up to Scott now while I can only be of assistance from a distance to take part in the creative process. Our goal? To make a relatable short film about the \u2018why\u2019 of a bicycle traveler, this bicycle traveler, that\u2019ll be shown at several adventure film festivals. We aim for a premiere at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, there where it all started. But those festivals are competitive and a screening is not guaranteed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ys-post-pinup\"><article class=\"loop-simple post-143221 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-ride2unite tag-blog tag-hera-van-willick\" data-postid=\"143221\" role=\"article\" data-post-id=\"143221\" data-word-count=\"1892\" data-headline-length=\"63\" data-category=\"#Ride2Unite\" data-author=\"Hera van Willick\" data-published=\"2016-10-17T11:12:13+00:00\" data-published-day=\"Monday\">\n    <div class=\"entry-thumbnail article-thumbnail\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/10\/515513153_970780077-150x150.webp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2016\/10\/17\/travelling-world-hera-van-willick-taste-canada\/\" class=\"image-holder\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/10\/515513153_970780077.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/10\/515513153_970780077.webp 900w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/10\/515513153_970780077-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/10\/515513153_970780077-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/10\/515513153_970780077-272x182.webp 272w\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1200px) 300px, (min-width: 768px) 25vw, 100vw\" alt=\"travelling-world-hera-van-willick-taste-canada\"\/><\/a><\/div>    <div class=\"entry-meta\">\n        <a class=\"label label-secondary post-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/category\/ride2unite\/\" title=\"#Ride2Unite\">#Ride2Unite<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"entry-details\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2016\/10\/17\/travelling-world-hera-van-willick-taste-canada\/\" class='entry-title-wrapper'>\n            <h3 class=\"entry-title\"><span>Travelling the World with Hera van Willick: The Taste of Canada<\/span><\/h3>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>After a last rainy day in busy and ugly San Jose I left in the night for the airport with my bicycle and panniers packed and I (as always) nervous if my baggage would exceed the weight limit.<\/p>\n<p>After a comfortable but exhausting flight I walked into my mother\u2019s arms at Schiphol airport. The train ride home started authentically Dutch with an hour delay and the sadly familiar announcement of a \u2018collision with a person\u2019 (suicide).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/DSC01291-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-159972\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/DSC01291-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The responses to my \u2018return\u2018 to the Netherlands vary. To my surprise a lot of people seem very surprised that I flew home. Many seem to think that I\u2019m ending my trip and some even seem a little disappointed in me.<\/p>\n<p>While travelling I regularly meet (bike)travelers who haven\u2019t been home for several years. I could never imagine becoming one of them. I chose to live my life on the bicycle for at least a few years, but that doesn\u2019t mean that I won\u2019t visit my homeland, family and friends every now and then. No matter how special and intense some of the friendships are that I make on the road, only a few people back at home know me through and through, including my past and my cultural roots. I think it\u2019s important to keep investing in those relationships, even when I live my life on a bicycle around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>In my fantasies I\u2019m cycling in Africa, Canada, north and eastern Europa, South-America, Mongolia\u2026<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-143221 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290183.webp'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290183-1024x684.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290183-1024x684.webp 1024w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290183-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290183-768x513.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290183-272x182.webp 272w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290183.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290186-1.webp'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290186-1-1024x683.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290186-1-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290186-1-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290186-1-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290186-1-272x182.webp 272w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/P6290186-1.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I was on my way to Ushuaia, but when I realized I wasn\u2019t gonna arrive there within two years\u2019 time I decided to fly to the Netherlands for a visit more or less halfway. But once I purchased the ticket I realized that there is nothing and nobody who obligates me to continue my route south. If I want to start off in a different direction, there is nothing that stops me. I flew home with a one-way ticket and the intention to stay in the Netherlands for two months. But where I\u2019ll fly or ride to after those 2 months is unsure for me too at the moment. In my fantasies I\u2019m cycling in Africa, Canada, north and eastern Europa, South-America, Mongolia\u2026 Well, all options are open.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ys-post-pinup\"><article class=\"loop-simple post-146997 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-ride2unite tag-hera-van-willick tag-travel\" data-postid=\"146997\" role=\"article\" data-post-id=\"146997\" data-word-count=\"1033\" data-headline-length=\"59\" data-category=\"#Ride2Unite\" data-author=\"Hera van Willick\" data-published=\"2017-03-06T09:44:51+00:00\" data-published-day=\"Monday\">\n    <div class=\"entry-thumbnail article-thumbnail\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/03\/232233232_23322332-150x150.webp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/03\/06\/travelling-world-hera-van-willick-baja-california\/\" class=\"image-holder\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/03\/232233232_23322332.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/03\/232233232_23322332.webp 900w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/03\/232233232_23322332-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/03\/232233232_23322332-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/03\/232233232_23322332-272x182.webp 272w\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1200px) 300px, (min-width: 768px) 25vw, 100vw\" alt=\"travelling-world-hera-van-willick-baja-california\"\/><\/a><\/div>    <div class=\"entry-meta\">\n        <a class=\"label label-secondary post-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/category\/ride2unite\/\" title=\"#Ride2Unite\">#Ride2Unite<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"entry-details\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/03\/06\/travelling-world-hera-van-willick-baja-california\/\" class='entry-title-wrapper'>\n            <h3 class=\"entry-title\"><span>Travelling the World with Hera van Willick: Baja California<\/span><\/h3>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now I\u2019m back in Tilburg it feels as if I\u2019ve never left. For an outsider like me it seems like nothing changed here, while I know that just as well as on the road, everything here too is subject to continues change.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m gonna take some time to acclimatize and let the realization sink in of what I\u2019ve done this past year, while writing a presentation about the trip and assisting Scott from a distance in the postproduction of the film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/IMG_9095-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-159978\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/IMG_9095-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"796\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my next blog I\u2019ll look back on the entire trip and maybe I\u2019ll be able to tell you something more about the continuation\u2026 but that is, like I never know the sequel of my blogs beforehand, just as much a question to me now as it is to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the sofa, in the living room of my mum\u2019s house in Tilburg, with the Tour the France on TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":159964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[460,418],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-159962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-hera-van-willick","tag-travel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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