Heading North. Facing Everything and Riding!

OK, here is the address if you didn’t catch it.
Joe Diomede
C/O Poste Restante
General Post Office, Pilestræde
Copenhagen
Denmark
FEAR – Forget Everything and Run or Face Everything and Rise! Which will we all choose? On my next voyage I’m choosing the latter. What about you?
Also here is a link to a cool article about reconnecting. https://www.positive.news/society/dutch-digital-detoxers-unplug-will-the-world-follow/

[Music] Joe diami coming at you Joe’s philosophy last day May 20124 so in the second day of June I will be heading up to zoric and with a friend and then from there I will take the bike out of his car and start pedaling North to Sweden to oh well first through Germany then Denmark Sweden Norway uh that’s the idea of the trip anyway and the idea of the trip is to get back out there you know my bike’s in good shape and I’m in good shape and I have all my camping equipment and I just feel like I’m going to get out there and you know just re restart rejuvenate meet some people I love meeting people because as my sh says there’s no strangers on this planet and I think on this Earth um if you want to directly translate and I just think it’s the same thing like you know I forget who there was another famous author who had there’s no strangers in this room in this place people we just haven’t met yet and so that’s the the vibe I’m going out with i i knowed people in Denmark Sweden Norway Germany Switzerland people I had there are some people I do know in Zurg and some people I might know along the way stop by friends houses but mostly I’m going to be meeting new people getting out there because there’s too much um distraction right now if you do watch the news and what’s going on too much negativity trying to face us with fear and um you know fear Angie introduced me to these two acronyms her and her friends were talking about um fear the either one acronym could be um forget everything and run or the other one is face everything and rise and I like that one face everything in Rise you know brings me back to my cycles of a traveler days in my book when I was on my way to Alaska and I was um really kind of nervous and I stopped at a friend’s house in Connecticut and he was asking me why I was so nervous and and I told him I said look at the map dude 5,000 miles and it was it was crazy I was in my 20s riding my motorcycle street bike from New York and you he said so why you doing it why don’t you just have hang out here at me for the weekend and go back home I was like no man cuz I got to face the fears I need to do it and he kind of didn’t understand that at the time maybe he does now or you know but I just was like yeah man I have to and you know sure I I went through a big few days of like breathing heavy looking at the map didn’t even look at the map for the first few days and then had the most fabulous life which led me to do many other things living in California blah blah blah and you know and I have I’ve had to do that a few times in my life so phras everything in Rise I like that hopefully we could do that together you know there are people out there watching this who maybe have just had diagnosises of of you know that’s are ins seem insurmountable I know a couple of friends and even family members right now going through some heavy stuff healthwise and um you know their attitudes are unbelievable and that is going to help in any whatever the future holds that’s going to help the present moment for them to heal to feel the best they can in the moments and and probably take them on to A Healthy Future let’s hope it does and the most important part is that what it does for the present moment it’s it it it just gives hope and um inspires people I know those people I’m talking about have inspired me enormously I’m on my little trip facing facing everything and rising and they’re on there bigger trips of of um you know health or I have a friend who’s you know some friends disappointed because of the piece of property um that they wanted to get fell through but you know it’s a bummer and I’m not downplaying at all but you know something better was going to happen from it let’s hope and if we keep in the present mov smiling and and not giving into the fear and facing it together that’s great that’s what I have to do and another reason I’m going on this trip is because my addiction to the mobile phone has gotten a little bit I mean addiction you know I use it a lot more than I ever envisioned myself using a mobile phone first time I met a guy with a mobile phone in ’94 I was like I was going across America on my bicycle and I was like that’s never going to work well well another Bad Business move by Joe um anyway I’m going back to the old days I’m taking my old film camera which I’m going to use for my thoughtful pictures I got a 36 exposure film and then I got 24 roll so between those two I will see what is ahead in Norway and Sweden and that brings me to my paper map which I’m going to use try not to I probably won’t use you know GPS or anything like that so I want if you want to write me in Denmark Copenhagen you got to write post restant Joe diami post restant Copenhagen Denmark and general post office put that in there somewhere maybe on the second line Joe dii General post office post restant Copenhagen Denmark and I will get those letters but you got to send them in the next week or so so if you get this and if anyone’s used to my traveling from the old days you’ll know about post Reston and I always wrote postcards back so if I get any letters requesting a postcard give me your address and I will write you back so um you know that’s the the the nice part of it and you know facing the fear is a great thing I’m to keep everybody in my mind who was going through some sort of disappointment at the time and faced the fear I’m facing my fear yes self-imposed for sure last year I had the little iron crisis a little Health crisis I didn’t know I was going through and I woke up every day thinking what’s going on but I did that trip and now I feel better so I want to do push it a little more hopefully we all push ourselves a little more every day and if you were able to get up and walk and move around and do it we’re not too old to stop having Adventures we’re not too old to to or Too Young or or or or too ill maybe you know to get out there and just push ourselves and do something new meet somebody new give somebody in Embrace um and read a good book if you want I just read uh Jonathan Harry hottie um h r not h r y um stolen Focus all about how a lot of a lot of the devices are still feeling our Focus not only that stress work rated stress money problems all these things that our life creates but try to rise above them you know face everything in rise and then I think life gets better and better and better and maybe our planet will get better and better and better if I get out there and meet people and hug people and talk to people about life’s Beauty and wonder and and and maybe Inspire somebody maybe my channel inspires someone else and my book I know over the years has inspired many people my cycles of a travel a book I have received emails over the last 10 12 years 14 years since it’s been published about people it inspired some to quit their jobs and take a trip some to take a trip and keep their job some to get into bicycling or some to do something else take the hike they always wanted to do whatever they wanted to do and I just hope that we can all on this travel together on this planet where there are no strangers travel never ends we’re traveling true space we’re traveling every day in our local areas in The Wider areas but keep on traveling keep on smiling keep on meeting people keep on putting those Positive Vibes out there I know I have to do that and it fulfills me and it gives me just hope that there is going to be a a light at this this weird time that we’re living on this planet and um I think it’s a weird time but I think it’s a wonderful time at the same time because things are going to change and get better especially if we all together face everything and rise and don’t let technology even get us down too much you know maybe do your own personal challenges I don’t know um if you feel that you’re doing something that you don’t like to do try to change it whatever it is having having one less beer spending one less hour on the phone whatever it could be getting out and walking more we all have to do it together knowing that there’s other people out there doing the same I can’t wait to meet The Travelers and friends I will be making in the next 6 weeks I love you all and you all take care be well everyone I mentioned before with those those um problems that you’ve been faced with I’m with you I’m taking you I’m going to be sending you positive vibes send me some positive vibes as well because I’m nervous and I don’t know what’s going to be happening in the next few weeks and that’s the exciting part Joe vosy you take care you be well and we will talk again and if you write me that letter I will send you a postcard you take care and uh keep on veloping