Hi Steemers!!!
I hope all is well with you guys in all aspects!
I am posting today about one of my biggest passions: Off-road driving!!
I have learnt how to drive since quite a young age (and quite illegal to say here). With the help of my dad and always in remote areas near the village where I grew up, I started loving being behind the wheel and invent my journey in new areas each time!
To me, driving was always fun and even creative (imagine how big my love for driving was getting haha)!
While growing up to be 18, I couldn't wait to enroll myself for the driving license course. In fact, the enrollment was my dad's birthday present for me!!
Even though I have undertaken other careers and stuff, I am never too much away from undertaking an off-road-driving kind of weekend. It seems so liberating to me, to be honest!
Traveling to the countryside, going to areas you didn't know existed, visiting remote villages and lovely families, eating delicious food and enjoying gorgeous nature....that is all part of the get-away journey that off-road driving offers to me.
The moment I think I have seen quite enough beauties of Albania, the next weekend trip tells me I have not!! This small weather-blessed country has so much more to offer even to me as a native of it.
The tiny human in the below picture is me:
The picture was taken last May, when guess what?!! I was one of the drivers of a professional one week tour off-road driving in all north of Albania. It was SUCH A BLAST OF ADRENALINE!!!
An English friend of mine living and working in Albania owns Drive Albania - offering off-road driving tours to tourists coming especially for that in Albania - and he proposed me to be one of the drivers; the only female driver!! So, it was a win for our female sex as well!!
In a very exiting week, we experienced almost everything!! From gorgeous sunny weather to heavy rains in the mountains, from great functioning moments to having some engine fails of our land rovers, from eating delicious fish to enjoying a lovely colorful picnic in the middle of nowhere, from driving along rivers and lakes to driving on the very edge of mighty mountains!! I'm saying, everything!
This is a picture of some of us and some of the tourists:
And this is only one of the moments of true happiness:
You know, people might think of it as a crazy passion. To me, it is all very simple: off-road driving is one of those means that puts you in the same time alongside nature and against it. Out there, you don't have much support left but trade your fate with nature! And that makes all the difference to me!
We will never really have a pure sense of what nature is capable of doing, but my passion makes me go as close to it as I can. I will not stop conversing with nature :-).
I hope you enjoyed this post Steemers!! Until my next post, drive on and keep being exited about life!
Love to all,
(Most of the photos inserted here are taken from the Facebook fan page of Drive Albania)