for the whole night, after a full moon, as i walked southwest from Belgrade to Sofia in the middle of the supposed lockdown (was a remarkable number of black cars driving around at night earlier in the trip) after i witnessed the sunset over the mountains of western serbia, and the sunrise over the mountains on the bulgarian side, the moon changed to my eyes

it became this:

for a whole night as i trudged along on my journeys during the so-called weekend curfew (i think it was a sunday, so you can probably date it by that) i looked up at the sun, and i saw this grinning face shining down on me like a comical blessing from God

as i am reflecting upon this rather strange incident, i have come to the conclusion that this is the face of an Angel, who is one of the horde who are guiding me from their remote viewing facility up there somewhere

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in case it wasn't clear, it was a full moon

i meant moonrise, also lol

sundown over west, sunrise over east

honestly i didn't and don't have any real notion of the ability to navigate, i just have this memory of this amazing sight of sunset through ripply mountains and above a tall hill to my left came this yellow moon with a grinning loon face

lol i meant moonrise

haha

that's quite the walk! was this over several days?

i forget how long, a bit over a week... and i discovered that skipping across train sleepers was easier than normal walking, and conveniently they had turned off most of the train services, until i got to Kurshumlija, which is close to the "border" with kosovo

and then i persuaded a conductor to give me a free ticket to travel to the border with Bulgaria, i forget the name of the stop

my observations about the difference between country people and city people was heavily influenced by that walk

oh yeah i also learned that a tub of lard and picking stale bread from wherever i saw it was the best food, and the lard doubled as balm for my feets that got quite damp from such long walking every day... i pretty much was doing like 14h a day, with 10 minute rests here and there whenever i felt the need or it was hot and i needed time out from the sun

oh yeah, that trip was long too... i mean, i must have trucked along ... 400km or so on foot, probably managing 30-40km/day most of the time

it convinced me that a human can probably walk 2000km if they have a big tub of lard and some biscuits and plenty of places to refill the water bladder

that reminds me of hiking with a classmate from Czech Republic who introduced me to sardines on baguettes. my silly granola bars were no match for the energy output of sardines.

sounds incredible. are there paths to walk other than the railroad tracks or the highway?

yes but the train lines were the most direct!