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The time is NOW…all is packed for my trip to Peru & Bolivia, woohoooo!

Ha, I had to dust off my backpack (I believe that I used it last for my trip Downunder in 2001, oof! 😉 ) and have my hiking boots with me: verrrry thrilled to see and experience South America!

I expect to blog (with photos 😉 ) every now and then when internet is available AND when I feel for it (!), I have the Quotes of the Day scheduled though, so there is something waiting everyday for y’all… 😉

Malcolm X: “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”

Eric Schmidt: “In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.”

Thank you for being a friend…

Nooooooo………awful news when I came back home today; Nikky died…The oldest of the three cats, daddy to Kwibus and really everyone’s friend got hit by a car late this afternoon (similar to Juultje (his ‘wife’) many years ago)….I am so sad….. 🙁 🙁 🙁

Just 14 years old (72 in cat years), the sweetest cuddle cat of all is now in cat heaven…

Thank you for being my friend dear Nikky…I love you!

Martha Graham: “Dance is the hidden language of the soul.”

Herodotus: “If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”

Robin Norwood: “Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.”

Rosie O’Donnell: “It’s going to come true like you knew it, but it’s not going to feel like you think.”

L. M. Montgomery: “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

Lowlands experience rules; never change a proven concept so…we started the day *very* relaxed, packed to travel light and know that we will still have too much cloths with us 😉 , enjoyed a scenic route to the festival terrain without any traffic-jams, hope that the lovely 26C sunny weather stays with us until Monday and we are wondering if our ‘set-up-the-tent-within-10-minutes’ talent also applies to the new tent…….Lowlands…here we are and we are READYYYY!!

Sun, fun, music, friends, drinks and then some…rock on, HELL YEAH!!!

Glenn Doman: “The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.”

Robert Townsend: “Getting there isn’t half the fun – it’s all the fun.”

Yayyy, it is that time of year again; the third weekend in August is coming up and already booked for months for ‘A campingflight to Lowlands Festival‘!

I flew back from Norway today and can’t wait to enjoy the perfect mix between great performances by well-known bands and being pleasantly surprised by not-so-well-known-bands (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, Editors, Slayer, Franz Ferdinand, The Opposites, TNGHT, The Knife, Michael Kiwanuka and more, many more! 😉 ), drinking to avoid dehydration 😉 , ROTFLMAO and heaps fun with friends, making new ones and oof, walking until your feet bleed…yeah, it is going to be great, again!! (cross fingers for sun/no rain!! 😉 )

Joseph Campbell: “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

This video/commercial is several years old, and still very actual; people today use technology to communicate more, but seem further away from each other than ever…smartphones are our ‘biggest friend’, and become our worse enemy in the process?!

This video is part of the ‘Disconnect to connect’ concept by DTAC (the second largest GSM mobile phone provider in Thailand, owned by Telenor).
It was created so that everyone would become aware of the phone that fits best for you and in order to get a happy smile and laughter of those around you. Into our lives.

Steve Jobs: “I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year….It’s very character-building.”

Jennifer Hudson: “Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.”

Before I go ‘really’ South to enjoy South America in a few weeks time, I wanted to discover and enjoy a more of the South of Norway, again! 😉 Soooo many places I didn’t see yet!

Lianne, Misha and I packed the car and ended up in Kragerø, a lovely little town with one challenge these particular days; no available place to stay in or around the picturesque town due to a youth event…bummer! We ended up in Portør, roughly an hour drive from Kragerø which turned out to be a hidden gem…check out the pictures below; WoW and beautiful!!!

Demosthenes: “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”