Some blogs ago I wrote about my friend Sven. Sven’s home for the last 10 years has been a tent. He is from East Germany and travels on a German passport. For the last 10 years he has been all over the world on 10 dollars a day. He works the summer for 2 or 3 months in Italy and then travels the world for the next 9 or 10 months. He is street wise and 3rd world wise. Last year, while traveling in India, he met a very nice Polish woman(another Magda) and they really hit it off. Sven’s Magda has been studying to be a physical therapist in the states. Sven has not been one to stay in one place for too long. He and his girlfriend have gone their separate ways 3 times as she doesn’t want to travel the world anymore. They split up again on December 18th and Sven said he was off to see the world again. Magda was crushed and felt abandoned.
Sven went to Guatamala and pitched his new tent on the beach in Belize. He went for a short walk and took a nap, and when he awoke, his tent had been stolen. This is like one of us having their house repossessed. He called Magda two days later and said how much he missed her and told her he loved her and that he wanted to be with her and he was flying back to SF. She was thrilled. He was going to fly in tonight.
He went swimming in the ocean a few days after his tent went missing. When he came out of the ocean, he hung his pants on a tree to dry. He dozed off and someone stole his pants, what’s up with these people? What’s up with Sven? This is not expected from one who spent a year hitch hiking through Africa.
Time to start toward the airport for the flight home to his love. He had a long bus ride to the airport and he put his backpack under his seat. When he went to get off the bus, his back pack was gone. Everything was missing, passport, travelers checks, clothes, everything. He made it to the German Embassy and they gave him the bad news. He could only return to Germany where it would take 6 weeks to get a new passport to use to return to the US to see his Magda. They are both feeling as if the world doesn’t want them to be together. They are devastated.
Sven and the other Magda
6 comments:
Ofcourse they will meet soon, it's just a test of how much they will want do to meet. Tell them not to stop.
Terry, what's up with Magda's blog? I was trying to read it, but it's gone : (
Magda retired her blog in favor of bicycle writing and school. She gets bored easy, I better behave!
Hmmmm....my future ex says 'there are no accidents.' Especially with such an experienced traveler, and just after his tent then his pants were stolen - why wasn't he wearing his passport in a travel pouch around his neck? Maybe he wanted to go back to Germany, (family? another old girlfriend?)on some level?
Interesting story but he seems kinda not really together. Hope he enjoys his time in Germany. I agree there are no accidents everything happens for a reason.
true love will find a way.....
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they
are necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go." Richard Bach
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