As fun as a bikepacking or bike touring travel vlog can look, even the juiciest adventure can be a series of triggering events and thoughts. The story of the monk who insulted the samurai was in my brain for this exact reason I think. Learning to break the habit of indulging our reaction to everything going on is a valuable lesson imo. Day 4 of the bikepacking journey across Portugal, heading out of the Algarve and hustling north. The front rack of bicycle pannier setup continues to wreck my soul. The rain in spain doesn’t fall mainly on the plane. It head across the border all together to harass a poor roaming peasant. Absolutely loving every pedal of the cycling trip across this beautiful country though and can’t wait to share more of whats been an insane & fulfilling adventure.
I told the story of the Samurai and Monk with some altered variations in the wording. But the outline is the same. Self awareness, self control, non reaction and not being so invested in our identities. Hope any of this waffle is interesting or motivational lol;)
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Late to the party this time. But another wonderful vlog! Can't wait to see what happens next!
I'm still really digging your vlogs, mate. You've captured some amazing footage of such beautiful scenery! And the obvious lengths you've gone to, in order to make these videos just that little more interesting is impressive, man.
I reckon these vids, whilst inspiring and entertaining to all of us watching here and now, will be best served to yourself in the future, 10, 20, 30 years in the future? Or even if you're just having a rough day. I've said it before, but I really love your philosophical rants, and I think that will be a super interesting thing for you to look back on in the future too! What's changed since this trip, or what did you learn about yourself or life in general during this trip that has stuck with you. You're talking to us now, but eventually you'll be having a chat with your past self. Trippy thought that.
It's funny though, since I started watching your FFP vids back in like 2017 or so, I've always felt like we were kindred spirits. I started watching them because of FF, but that quickly became watching them equally as much, if not more so to see what you've got to say. Recently, I've had a similar moment of awakening and wanting more in life and trying to break free from my creature comforts to pursue things I've always wanted to do and then not long after beginning to make those changes, you start posting these vids. It's almost as if you knew I'd need them for inspiration and to reinforce my motivation to improve myself for myself. 🙂
Oh, and excellent timing for getting a hotel! As awesome as it would be to camp during a thunderstorm, probs wouldn't want to be out in the middle of nature with all your gear around you XD
I've never heard that story before but i really like it and the lesson it was trying to teach. I resonate with it a lot, i fully believe in self control and not going haywire just cause someone insulted your identity or just in general. As for knee-jerk reactions i pretty much easily keep them to myself, i've always had a lot of anxiety so the thought of hurting someone's feelings or causing a scene in public has mostly kept me in check anyways lol.
I'm honestly loving this new channel that you have made. It's really made me think about how I want to live my life. It's also just great fun watching the snippets of your journey. Hope it's going well.
This is one of the best Vids yet bro! That story hit hard, and I'm rehearsing it to tell my son when he gets a bit older. One of the best parables I've ever heard.
very true about social media!
I want to share my response to things you talked about in as short of a comment as possible. I think reactions are an evolutionary response to danger. I was taught the power of breathing. You said we cut off oxygen to the brain when we get a fear response. Breathing allows air to reach the head and returns rational thinking. Even with this knowledge, I still let my emotions get the better of me constantly.
As for the whole social media and conforming thing, I think people only want to present the best side of themselves on the internet. The quest for validation goes back to that idea of conforming to a group. We want to show others our best selves because we want to get validation or attention from the person or group that we admire. Social media presents us with so many tribes and we try to please them all.
I believe these evolutionary responses of fear response or conforming to the tribe, although at times can be detrimental, are necessary. The fear response gives our bodies the strength to fight back danger. Some fans may even want you to stick to the gaming content and those conforming-to-the-tribe thoughts remind you to consider the consequences before acting. -Jeff
Absolutely loving these man
I do hope you're using plenty of suncream on that tat! 😛
That "juicy tunes" bit was so sick pez. Your journey has been such an amazing and inspirational experience so far. Keep it up pez 🙂
Paradoxically, as you said- social media is making us act the same-ish kind of way while at the same time, we try to find something new, something which will either break us from this same-ish-ness or something which will give us an excuse for for 5 minutes not to look the same. And all of this is done to either please the crowd or keep up this front which all stems from social media, making a vicious cycle.
That being said, in which woodland does Pez sleep nowdays ? :v
How is/was a daily hygenic lifestyle do you prepare pez? I can expect less bathing unless coming upon hotel vacancies? I plan to do a bike tour myself someday, thanks to your motivational passion of seeing the world in a whole new light! Cheers and "Cake Baby"!
every video is full of beauty and wisdom but now also poetry!
"here is my tits… here is my ass… here is my dong now… (pfff) please accept me!"
Pez, On humans looking for acceptance
loved it! Shakespeare would be so proud
We need Pez's playlist, the music in these videos is absolutely fantastic.
Absolutely loving these vlogs Pez, all your pearls of wisdom, the gorgeous scenery, and especially your music choices! I look forward to the notifications popping up. What an epic quest you're on!
Usually I can keep knee-jerk reactions to myself, I'm not one to fly off the handle (as well as being a chronic people pleaser 🙈 Trying to work on that) but I find that it's not really effective and instead of just letting things go I keep them all stored up until the most stupid piddly thing makes me explode, Vesuvius style 🌋 Definitely one of those baser instincts I need to evolve from. I've actually been consciously trying the past year or so to just talk about stuff that's bugged me at the time, rather than letting it fester and allow the resentment to grow. I hate making people unhappy though, which is why I've always kept it all to myself – rather sacrifice my own happiness than hurt or annoy someone else, you know? So although I've been able to deal with things when they happen I've felt horrible afterwards so I wonder if it's actually helped and if it's actually a better way of dealing.
Haha, anyway, thanks for being my online therapist 🤣 Take care out there
I'm loving this series and following your adventure!
The drone shots are so cool.
Its always great to see you upload pez
LETS HEKKIN GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I wish you good luck
Thank you for your words of wisdom pez may you find all the ansers you've been loocking for on this jorney of yours i'm glad i can be a part of It
Ești un idol XX18LIKE.Uno mereu în inima mea 💋 frumos, dragoste, alegere, cultural. Sunt unul dintref cele mai bune concerte….
I belive you can do It pez
Wow, even though it takes time editing for the vlogs to catch up with where I am on the road now, this already feels like a lifetime ago. Theres been plenty more moments of reaction & triggers aswell as the many unbelievable beautiful experiences. How you guys handle moments your feeling a knee-jerk reaction coming up?
Im gonna carve out some time to reply to all your comments in this dope cafe. But believe I have been reading and really feel you guys being here with me in spirit 🥰
Its beautiful returning to a small clique of internet compadres like it was back in 2016-17. Feels special😉
Time to return to the small shanty town of travellers I've just stumbled upon lol!
The dificulties of a peasant reconecting with Nature