
Just thought to share something with you from my Sunday morning. Find a coffee, turn on the music, kick back and fade out of 2024 with me for a minute.
Alex
Editor Advanture Magazine.
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Excerpt from A Land Shaped By Women, first appearing in Advanture Magazine issue 1/pilot issue. Published February 2020. Written by Aline Bock.
“The adventure began the second we drove off the ferry. Recent heavy snowfall caused our line of camper vans to get stuck on the first mountain pass leading away from the port. Everyone was slipping and sliding everywhere. One van even ended up in a ditch. “We’ve got this!” and minutes later we drove off with big smiles on our faces, while the rest of the van owners could only look on in wonder “, says Aline.
When Aline say’s we’ve got this, what she means is that these advanture campers have a ton of experience navigating frozen roads in search of white gold, and will stop at nothing to reach it.
She continues to tell us about the first days driving in Iceland, passing glaciers, frozen waterfalls and wild deer dancing through the epic landscapes. All of this was framed by an out of this world backdrop of ocean and mountain views as far as one could see.
Aline and her crew had also come with a shot-list for a new movie. Their primary mission was to discover and bring light to the stories of inspiring Icelandic women, hearing tales about their adventures with both mountains and water.
In the capital of Reykjavik, they met with Katrin Oddsdottir. A human rights lawyer and political activist, she was part of a small group who drafted Iceland’s new constitution.
“Her mother had founded the Women’s Alliance in 1983, getting women’s issues on the political agenda in Iceland. To have experienced her full story on our first full day felt very empowering. It gave us great impetus to dig deeper into Iceland’s feminist mindset.”
Driving north in spectacular weather conditions, the crew pulled up at Troll Peninsula, greeted by perfect curling waves.
Listen - Butthole Surfers
“We were living in a van half the time,” Coffey says of the scrappy 1986-era sessions for Locust Abortion Technician, “but also in Winterville, Georgia where we didn’t know anyone, and there was no furniture in the house and there were sparks flying across the room because the electricity was so bad.” Source, Rolling Stone October 2017.
Butthole Surfers appeared in a YouTube mix this week and I’ve encountered a strange blend of punk rock and experimental “noise”. Not sure if it’s good or bad, but it did lead me to surfing the web for a bit to find out who the Butthole Surfers were and where they came from. More than a welcome distraction to scrolling through social media.
As the story goes, Nirvana opened for the Butthole Surfers before they exploded in the early 90’s. Kurt Cobain listed one of their albums in his list of top 10 favourite albums.
See ya on the road.