SupervagabondS au pays d'Israfil et Tarja
Notre premier voyage à deux canoës, à chacun son embarcation, à chacun ses méditations.
Ce carnet est dédié à ma fille Amélie,
parce qu'avant de partir j'avais, tout comme elle, sous estimé sa capacité à être vagabonde.
A l'heure de dérouler ce carnet, elle n'attends que de repartir ensemble avec son canoë.
Nous pensions que ce voyage serait bien différent de celui de 2017, effectivement il fut vraiment un cran au dessus, autant dans les émotions de notre relation père fille, qu'au travers des rencontres qui ont eu lieu.
Le titre est aussi un hommage parce que sans ma fille, sans Israfil et Tarja, il y aurait moins d’émotions dans ce carnet.
Ce carnet est aussi un cadeau de noël pour ma fille, parce qu'il n'est pas obligatoire de consommer à outrance pour lui démontrer que je l'aime.
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Our first trip to two canoes, to each his own boat, to each his meditations.
This notebook is dedicated to my daughter Amélie,
because before leaving I had, like her, underestimated her ability to be a vagabond.
When she unrolls this notebook, she is just waiting to leave together with her canoe.
We thought that this trip would be very different from that of 2017, indeed it was really a notch above, as much in the emotions of our father-daughter relationship, as through the meetings that took place.
The title is also a tribute because without my daughter, without Israfil and Tarja, there would be less emotion in this notebook.
This notebook is also a Christmas gift for my daughter, because it is not compulsory to consume excessively to show her that I love her.
Ce carnet est dédié à ma fille Amélie,
parce qu'avant de partir j'avais, tout comme elle, sous estimé sa capacité à être vagabonde.
A l'heure de dérouler ce carnet, elle n'attends que de repartir ensemble avec son canoë.
Nous pensions que ce voyage serait bien différent de celui de 2017, effectivement il fut vraiment un cran au dessus, autant dans les émotions de notre relation père fille, qu'au travers des rencontres qui ont eu lieu.
Le titre est aussi un hommage parce que sans ma fille, sans Israfil et Tarja, il y aurait moins d’émotions dans ce carnet.
Ce carnet est aussi un cadeau de noël pour ma fille, parce qu'il n'est pas obligatoire de consommer à outrance pour lui démontrer que je l'aime.
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Our first trip to two canoes, to each his own boat, to each his meditations.
This notebook is dedicated to my daughter Amélie,
because before leaving I had, like her, underestimated her ability to be a vagabond.
When she unrolls this notebook, she is just waiting to leave together with her canoe.
We thought that this trip would be very different from that of 2017, indeed it was really a notch above, as much in the emotions of our father-daughter relationship, as through the meetings that took place.
The title is also a tribute because without my daughter, without Israfil and Tarja, there would be less emotion in this notebook.
This notebook is also a Christmas gift for my daughter, because it is not compulsory to consume excessively to show her that I love her.
Quand : 24/06/2019
Durée : 85 jours
Durée : 85 jours
Distance globale :
705km
Dénivelées :
+3658m /
-4314m
Alti min/max : 54m/258m
Carnet publié par SupervagabondS
le 10 oct. 2019
modifié le 22 juil. 2020
modifié le 22 juil. 2020
Coup de coeur !
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Vue d'ensemble
Le topo : Nav 25 / 24 Août (mise à jour : 05 avr. 2020)
Distance section :
32.7km
Dénivelées section :
+72m /
-103m
Section Alti min/max : 67m/80m
Le compte-rendu : Nav 25 / 24 Août (mise à jour : 05 avr. 2020)
If humans were less stupid, they wouldn't need to establish some as heroes! But I'm not targeting anyone in particular, it's just my mood for the day !
We are going to join Anttola, Israfil & Tarja,
The wind and the waves are against us, however you no longer need help.
You have acquired strength and muscles to fight against the elements, as for your determination, it is really surprising for your age.
You have acquired strength and muscles to fight against the elements, as for your determination, it is really surprising for your age.
You can have the soul of a warrior, so I prefer to continue to influence your thoughts to remain humanistic.
When you have the experience of planting your paddle well, nothing will keep you from going faster than me, but it is not the idea of competition, which I taught you to criticize, which animates us, it is the pleasure of challenging each other without any other measure than that of our complicity.
Life is even better when you never forget that the only truth that humans can trust is that we will all die one day.
It is not vanity that fuels my fatherly love, it is sincerity, which seems to me so close to a notion of truth.
Now you can meditate without worrying about the rest, just by reading your thoughts.
However each one wanders without ever erasing the other.
However each one wanders without ever erasing the other.
Telling our travels is trying to leave a trace that I could not write otherwise.
These trips have become stages of our family life, memories that nourish our daily relationship throughout the rest of the year.
It only takes a moment to forget nothing, while you have to work hard to learn everything else.
The nest is so big that it catches all sharp eyes.
The weather changes and slowly sets in in the autumn.
The memories of this trip are already enough to fuel our discussions during the breaks.
We are now sailing together and still for a long time.
- So "TurtleKanot", we are handing this over to two canoes next year?
- Oh yeah, downright!
- But this time we will go north and we will do 1000 km of canoe !?
- Oh yeah I love it!
- We will make a loop from the campsite of Israfil & Tarja.
- Oh yeah, so cool!
- And we'll make another film.
- Oh yeah great!
- But tell me, what's the use of reading so many books if it's to speak to me with so few words ?? !!
- Oh yeah, you surprise me!
- What crap adolescence!
- Quite frankly, LOL!
- So "TurtleKanot", we are handing this over to two canoes next year?
- Oh yeah, downright!
- But this time we will go north and we will do 1000 km of canoe !?
- Oh yeah I love it!
- We will make a loop from the campsite of Israfil & Tarja.
- Oh yeah, so cool!
- And we'll make another film.
- Oh yeah great!
- But tell me, what's the use of reading so many books if it's to speak to me with so few words ?? !!
- Oh yeah, you surprise me!
- What crap adolescence!
- Quite frankly, LOL!
After a second break at the entrance to this cove, sheltered from the wind, we leave with the feeling of heading towards a form of happiness.
Israfil & Tarja know that we are arriving today, but the exact time is also unknown to us.
This is not the place that makes you happy, it's what you decide to do with it.
Just listen to hear, it's the same with nature.
The campsite is so close that one hardly dares to move forward.
Yet we are still far from imagining the full extent of the kindness to which we will have to honor.
As soon as we arrive at the campsite, Israfil & Tarja declare us as their guests and they offer us a cottage and all the saunas we want! As soon as they arrive, they prepare a meal for us which we also share with them.
Israfil also prepares a sauna for us while we chat at the table with Tarja.
This family illustrates so much the one I would have liked to live.
This family illustrates so much the one I would have liked to live.
Israfil et Tarja campsite is the cheapest in the whole region!
And yet the welcome and so attentive that it is priceless. www.lakeistenranta.fi.
I have observed Israfil welcoming customers, and each time they leave it with a smile, I discuss with him this rare gift.
And yet the welcome and so attentive that it is priceless. www.lakeistenranta.fi.
I have observed Israfil welcoming customers, and each time they leave it with a smile, I discuss with him this rare gift.
You took care of SupervagabondS as no one had dared to do, but your kindness is such that we had the choice to refuse.
Amélie does not forget that she can consider you as her "Uncle Israfil", and it reassures me to know that she could refer to your family.
Amélie does not forget that she can consider you as her "Uncle Israfil", and it reassures me to know that she could refer to your family.
The reception of the campsite.
Finnish people come every day just to have a coffee and, above all, to chat with Israfil who masters Finnish like nobody, but he especially has a sense of conviviality which the Finns like to enjoy. Israfil entrusts me with anecdotes whose authorization I ask to make them public, they are so authentic:
- Hello Israel, I need to talk to you, how are you ?!
- I'm fine Topbsa, but why are you calling me?
- For nothing, I just need to speak with you!
- But you never imagined that it would bother me that you call me every day ?!
- Uh no, I never imagined that it could bother you!
- But why are you calling me exactly ?!
- For nothing special, it's just that if I don't talk to you every day, I don't feel good!
- Well, let's talk !
Finnish people come every day just to have a coffee and, above all, to chat with Israfil who masters Finnish like nobody, but he especially has a sense of conviviality which the Finns like to enjoy. Israfil entrusts me with anecdotes whose authorization I ask to make them public, they are so authentic:
- Hello Israel, I need to talk to you, how are you ?!
- I'm fine Topbsa, but why are you calling me?
- For nothing, I just need to speak with you!
- But you never imagined that it would bother me that you call me every day ?!
- Uh no, I never imagined that it could bother you!
- But why are you calling me exactly ?!
- For nothing special, it's just that if I don't talk to you every day, I don't feel good!
- Well, let's talk !
I show them our notebooks on mytrip; They decide to contact the local and national press to highlight us. I will not try to tell in detail this week spent together, it would be too much, the main thing is not to forget having experienced it.
You who became my friend. Israfil, you know very well that all the words that I could write in this notebook could not make us understand how much we are capable of hearing and respecting each other.
We were concerned about sharing, and even if we had to wait to show you my confidence, you know today that I keep my word.
Israfil's father in law, Tarja's father, who is a former sports journalist, interviews us. Israfil translates with all the psychology he knows how to show to transmit emotions. Israfil & Tarja bought the campsite from him two years ago !
Israfil explained to me how his stepfather is another man when he practices tango. This dance is institutional in Finland. he was also an athletics coach in the Finnish national team but I forgot the discipline, literally and figuratively !
I have often watched you while savoring the pleasure you have, of never admitting it to yourself !
I decide to help Israfil which needs solid trestles to store its boats and its pedal boat during the winter.
With reclaimed wood and without any power tools, I envisage the realization of six massive trestles. It involves my know-how and my desire to put the best of myself into it.
Israfil helps me while he continues to take care of the campsite, the customers arrive daily and there are sometimes more than a hundred. I planned two or three days to do everything, including painting.
Our complicity is established without any plan, and it is on this day that Israfil asks me to officially become his friend.
He supports his wish with a statement that leaves me speechless, I listen, I abdicate and fraternizes.
He supports his wish with a statement that leaves me speechless, I listen, I abdicate and fraternizes.
I tell him that he is right to choose his friends, because I always hoped that he would offer it to me!
Our discussions lead us to understand that there is an obvious form of complementarity between us.
Our discussions lead us to understand that there is an obvious form of complementarity between us.
I did my job with precision, attention and efficiency. We should have made an image of these trestles finished and painted in gray, but no image could transcribe the friendship that has assembled between us and which ignores the culture of the selfie !
Tarja's mother comes to steal a saw from me for her needs to maintain a cottage. As she saws I watch her, casually, thinking about all that Israfil has taught me about her.
We go shopping together at the local garage while Israfil explains to me the social subtleties that the Finns keep in the freezer !
We are testing the engine and battery which are now owned by Israfil & Tarja. Suffice to say, we will stay a whole week with them. The campsite closes on August 31 but we can stay there as long as they are on site.
We spend our days together preparing for the closure of the campsite and Pentti, the neighbor of Israfil, joins us as if to better add to the feeling of conviviality that unfolds between us.
Pentti is endowed with natural kindness and I suspect that he did his training with Israfil.
Pentti decides to seriously help Israfil to build a new wooden shelter, to house a water pump, as well as a wood reserve. We must start by removing the stumps and level the ground. We are still there so everyone is getting started.
We decided to leave to join the cabin in two days and Pentti offers to transport us with its trailer to the lake which will allow us to reach the cabin directly and therefore, the end of this trip.
We discuss between father and daughter his proposal during the evening sauna, and we accept his offer with the only reason that to accept, will allow us to stay a few more days with our friends, then with Amélie we do not feel the want to do a backward portage on the road.
We discuss between father and daughter his proposal during the evening sauna, and we accept his offer with the only reason that to accept, will allow us to stay a few more days with our friends, then with Amélie we do not feel the want to do a backward portage on the road.