I don’t know whether this is interesting or just a bit cringe, but I’ve started using an app called Pause Cam to make ‘scrapbooks’ of various video snippets on our travels. It just appends one snippet to the previous one, and allows minimal editing options thereafter. I still don’t want to spend ages editing video (I’ll save that for my audio exploits) but thought I’d give this a whirl with a sort of ‘day in the life of’ video.
This is yesterday, as it unfolded, in video scrapbook form.
Note: apart from those offended by cringiness, some viewers may find the footage (of the charred remains of three camels in the desert) at 01:24m upsetting. Feel free to skip this section or the video entirely if so.
As a sort of yardstick for how this day compares to other Bimbling days, I came up with this scoring system, out of 10.
Distance cycled: 8
83km
Comfort: 8
Pros: Tent discreet and out of the elements, toilets and wash facilities on site, café breakfast, moderate temperature, tailwind, swank apartment to end at. Drank and stretched enough.
Cons: Woke up bleary-eyed due to a night of loud trucks and interactions.
Conditions: 6
Pros: Easy riding, nice company, decent podcast.
Cons: Endless, flat tarmac and land mine warning for areas we’d prefer to explore.
Food & Drink: 6
Pros: Truck stop breakfast. Bread with (green) amlou. Home-cooked rice dish (we don’t normally get to cook rice on our stove as it uses too much fuel). Moroccan tea. Plenty of water (that didn’t make us ill…). Excellent fruit and bakery options in Boujdor.
Cons: Truck stop breakfast. Mildly gone off pepper and carrot with lunch. Stale bread.
Human interactions: 7
Pros: Kindly folk at the garage, nice drivers, great interactions in Boujdour. Someone even offered me a chair when I was waiting for Beck to return from the bakery. Lovely host at apartment. Our pal Rob video called us on Signal when we were just outside Boujdour.
Cons: Few in-the-flesh deep discussions or lengthy interactions.
Visual stimuli: 4
Pros: Camels, goats, a strange calm through the sparseness. Some bits looked slightly different to other bits.
Cons: We are quite a long way in to these surroundings now. It’s hard to get overly excited but, as ever, there’s still joy in some of the detail.
Auditory stimuli: 3
Pros: Truck horns. Camel noises. Occasional things flapping in the wind. Andrew Hickey’s voice (see podcast link above).
Cons: Mostly drowned out by the sound of the wind.