@finlaydag33k @feditips aren't mastodon instances actually storing content of those from other instances that someone is following? in theory, if you follow your own account on another instance and instance A suddenly goes down, aren't toots still available on other instances?

last stop last nap
italian espresso
and sweet pastry again
familiar spaces
all a blur
when looking back

here's the van
now returned

scenography safe
in our warehouse

5200km
five days
three hotels
one mountain pass
two seas
four countries
twenty power-naps

Safely at the hotel. And Google Map instructions and calculated times were actually quite right. But, what I didn't know that it will take me via high mountain pass Col de Montgenèvre (1860m) with snow and -1°C! It was pretty scary at some point as everything seemes like I will soon start sliding down the mountain with all the scenography in the van... But everything was all right at the end...

a seemingly pleasurable sunday morning, all chill with relatively empty Italian motorways, always great Italian espresso, I have 618km ahead of me (5hr22min by gmaps' calculation)

despite the hotel breakfast including coffee I needed another one within less then an hour of driving

To add to the above (written very late), I had great fun driving this one! I was amazed at roads, especially the tunnels on italian side.

another stop, first nap
intense multilayered dreaming
clouds and sun
no rain
past last four hours mark
plains of northern Italy
Emilia
415 to go

@clacke and in Italy they are very persistent, with even single use plastic gloves at this hotel rn

@clacke my way from Ljubljana to Porto : https://sonomu.club/@luka/108154328186425824

Started at very human hours from Porto - forgot something in the hotel, so more or less left Porto at 1130 local time. Some rain but not too much. Roads are not crowded. Entered Spain, found a stop near Verín, nap, coffee. Continuing at 1545 (UTC+2). Destination for tonight is France, near Biarritz.

Quick nap less than 2h away from sleepover destination. No coffee. Lotsa water. Night has fallen, leaving the Spanish plains, entering mountains. Traffic is a bit more intense now. Will pass through the Euskal/Basque part in hour and a halfm Probably.

Drove for 2:15, passed León, but before that some snowcapped 'hills' with lotsa wibd turbines. Again sime showers but bot much. Traffic is chill. Thinking of Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders and soundtrack to it by Ry Cooder. Took another nap and now a coffee. My breaks are much longer (almost an hour) than anticipated.

Arrival at the hotel at midnight: ~800km @ 12h.

Depart at 9:09.
Dark gray overcast
up ahead above Toulouse
scattered blobs behind
over Atlantic coast
in rearview

feels like I need optimize
the stops
the rests
the naps

drizzle starts

Plan for today is to arrive to Savone, Italy. 980km.

Oh and in Spain and France they seem to not care about COVID19. At least judging from the fact that nobody is wearing masks, even those who cough and sneeze and have a runny nose.

no more drama
just a gray cover
water coming down
traffic intensifies
toulouse périphérique
rest-stop longer
than intended
body-mind demands
road materialism

659KM to go

numbers metric quantified progress success

passed DEST-800 mark
7h30m of driving to go

distance B = 986 ( from Porto)
distance A = 3666 (from Ljubljana)

@vesperto it's a contemporary dance piece that I'm involved with that needed scenography at the festival in Porto.

https://emanat.si/en/production/matija-ferlin--sad-sam-matthaus/

https://www.festivalddd.com/

snow
near carcassonne

on the tarmac
but nothing on trees and fields

d-594km

some **ck-up with accommodation (small italian hotels actually close at 22h and cannot accommodate you if yoi arrive later) so - change of hotel and destination for tonight - near Torino.

I'm already past Aix-en-Provence, had a nap and some foos at calm rest-stop (no shops, makes a huge difference). Thunder and rain on and off though.

Continuing into the night. If I make it till hotel at 1am I'm good!

while I was sleeping
the gray cover teared
and blue sky
and sun came

longer rest (1430-1600) with some food and coffee

french 'aires' (pit/rest stops) are likeable, lotsa greenery and trees, especially between motorway and the parking