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One Year...❤️🥳🎈🍀🌅😘

03. Oct 2026 · Rethymnon, Greece · 2 min read

Anniversary 😍😁☮

At least that's the word that came to mind for today, among others. Birthday and "Ugh, still rain, storm, ...!" were of course also there. The picture was taken when the sun showed itself for 2 minutes and I spontaneously decided to trudge to the vegetable market...after all, it's not just me who has a birthday again today, but also the announcement from exactly 1 year ago....and I will CELEBRATE that in my own way 🥰

What does this date mean to me today? Quite a lot, because a year ago there was the message in the closed telegram group for family and friends, in which I shared my decision to break off everything in Germany, even in the EU, and set off on my journey. This happened directly and symbolically with my first message under "I'm off...", to drive directly with Frankie to a place in Vogtland called Gottesberg and to meet people I didn't know before. The visible part of Frankie's and my journey had begun with that.

That this was also a farewell from the Vogtland region for me and that I was also saying "Goodbye!" to my great-grandmother was the intermediate level. This also happened on and around Rügen, on Usedom, in the Harz, in Meck-Pom, in Prignitz, in Zerbst, in Warmsdorf and in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, where, except for my paternal grandparents' grave, it was also about being able to feel existing connections to beloved people once more ❤️❤️❤️

And until July 18th, this closed "I'm off..." group was also the exclusive channel for sharing my experiences, encounters, thoughts, emotions, ...with you, for which I am very grateful 🙏

And then?

Then life showed what's possible when it's meant to be! 🥰 After Saman and Jork were already working in their free time, unpaid, on implementing my website concept and then realized that they couldn't implement it in the intended form because they simply come from a completely different technical background, René made another connection! With André "The Mastermind" of "Webseitendeasaster" not only was this open channel created through which the website is directly populated, but also quite a few adaptations and extensions! To you 4 wonderful people, whom I don't want to leave unmentioned today, I owe—and therefore all of you who read along, listen along, watch along, feel along, think along, ...basically RIDE ALONG...Yes, I wanted to bring that one because it makes me SMILE here, in the middle of the storm, in Frankie!...this possibility to let you PARTICIPATE ❤️🙏🥰

Maybe I'll develop the topic a bit more on the website, we'll see! 😉

...and as long as the storm continues to rage, I'm enjoying the patter of rain on Frankie, the rocking inside her because the gusts are coming on strong, the fresh fruit from the market and hoping that my clothes finally dry 😂👍

Wishing you all a wonderful course of today, one more smile and peaceful, joyful moments, ME☮️❤️🌈😍🥰🙏

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