30 HOURS FOR OUR LIFE!!!!

Well, this time i want to go on telling about the italian adventures i had...
During the after 3 years i was in "totale's" dimension we made a video clip, it was a nice experience, mostly to write the story board, arrange the schedules and the ideas took months, it was all a job of inventing, taking, chosing, deleting, planning and trying it, when finally to film it it took one day only, from dawn till dusk!!! But it was an amazing day, we used an "epoque" car, a proper crap one, like us!!! We went to take it, or better i went with Laura to take it in a small village near by and we took it back to the location, but as it has been locked like 20 years stopped in a garage it was a problem to take it with us...basically it just let us down at half way, we managed after one hour to complete the travel after the rest of the team reached us and helped with electric cables to resuscitate it.
The day went on like a real funny one with all our friends there helping us, for the first time in our life in front of a camera but ready to perform at the best!
U can look for the result of this 4 month struggle on this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mo0ckeMfUk

The same summer we left Italy for a long travel direction Spain, exactly to Chipiona, in the extreme south west of the country, like 70 km far from Gibraltar.

The trip started at night, after work for all, we grabbed our poor luggage and me, Rusu, Cresta and Elisa started the 30 hours for our life, 3000 km to a country where we've never been before, just to visit an old friend "Daniel Spaniel", the former and first guitarist of the band, half spanish half italian, that decided after leaving the band, to move to his mother's country.

Well all happy and fresh we left town around 3'00am and we went, no gsm, no idea of what's gonna be, just lead by our motto "Hey oh, let's go!!!". We didn't even had a map,(yes we are real vintage people!!) just a compass!!! So it was ok, the travel was passing by Genova, Ventimiglia, Monaco, Marseille, Barcelona, Valencia, Manzanares, Cordoba, Jerez de la Frontera and finally Chipiona!!! A little town, about 10'000 citizens, mostly fishermans, on the sea...The trip was planned like a no stop one, we had to cover 3000 km in 30 hours!!! If u are a curious reader and u maybe are checking the distance u probably are reconing that the real travel was supposed to be like 2500 km in total, well I’ll explain later where are the 500 km missing…
The trip through France was quiet, I slept for the 4 hours till the border with Spain, I don’t know exactly what’s happened but when I woke up Cresta was driving, and next shift driving was mine,
He was tired, I was very fresh so we just swapped the place in an autogrill, after we had like an hour rest, but for us and also for the car, that after 10 hours well, was needing it as well!! After a coffee for me and a short nap for the others, one hour later we hitten the road again and went no stop to Chipiona, I was driving at this point and at 3 am, with Rusu as navigator with the compass (yes it’s hilarious but it’s true and anyway efficient!!!), actually he never held a compass in his hands so I had to explain him a bit how to use , to keep it perfectly straight to have a proper esteem of the direction to follow, and we were due to follow the direction west/south west. Well the following 2 hours ren happily talking with Rusu about what we experienced the last year, the dates around, the friends, some dinners together, certain nights and other stories, the kind of conversation that make u remind and reflect many things, in a funny and heart warming way…but Rusu was tired, we were almost in Spain and he felt asleep, I was alone driving at that moment, the other were exausted and sleeping in the car, but I could manage it just following the clear and constant signal to Spanish border. It was 5 am at this moment, I was listening to the “Bolero” from Maurice Ravel and it was powerful…I can’t describe it any better…I felt at that moment I was changing inside….in that very moment I was a bit tired as well, but that symphony, powered up by the sun that was rising behind the mountain and it was dawn…the crescendo of the music was increasing the mighty feeling as well and really I felt like a nuclear reactor!!!! I think I could have thrown a flux from my soul up to the sky through the stars in that moment….It’s something I will never forget, u just feel like new after that…totally recharged, totally fresh, totally connected with the environment around, I had in my eyes like the imagine of the nature that was waking up around me, deers, wolves, squirrels, birds, humans, lawn, trees and the power of the core of the earth as well…
It was just a magic moment I will carry with me all my life for sure…
Well…finally I went on driving till 12 in the morning, at that time we were about to start the trip in the Sierra Madre, a long deserted, hot as hell, area of spain, after we passed the stopping point were all muslims directed to Morocco have to stop to take a rest, before they head to Algeciras, and there, by ferry, they end up to North Africa, and we spent some time with this people, we never met a muslim before, we just heard about them on tv, and finally, they are not as bad as they appear on tv, we met a family, father, mother, 2 daughters of about 10 and 16, and 3 sons about 20/25, we had a chat, we told eacht others where we were coming from, where was our destination, we had some fresh drinks together…and then we said goodbye…finally we went on our travel, they gave us some fruits to carry with us, we gave them some of our cds…we went on after sharing this little moment…but something bad and unexpected were about to happen… We got lost in the desert of sierra madre, me personally I lost my senses for the steamy hot situation, it was like 45 degrees, stuck in the car, a perfect oven under this sun, lost on a mountain cause we took the right road instead of the left one and there we ended up, on a red mountain surrounded by desert and nothing and none around…just us fools!!! And no idea of what to do because we didn’t even know about the existence of a desert in Spain,we were ther on that mountain lost, sorrounded by small and never seen animals just seen on tv, including snakes, spiders and other little bastards!!! But there we were and we had to do something: at that moment we were also out of water, the only water we had was the one from the car’s radiator, surely not good to be drank and anyway only good to make a tea, that was not the best idea with 45° on us!!!!
Well finally we just took the car 30 minutes after and we drove back for about 100 kms to the point were we took the wrong road and sorted everything out, but that moment was desperately hilarious…
Well the rest of the travel was quite smooth… nothing special to report, just loads of fun and crazy things we did on the car, the last 5 hours was determinating…after 25 hours closed up together in a oven everyone, even the pope, would turn into a schizo!!! And we started to have bad mood with eachothers…yes, the last 5 hours was quite stressing we started to scream with eachothers cause we were tired, we wanted to arrive, to have a shower and a proper sleep, we were smelling, hitchy and stuffed with stress!!! But finally here’s the signal to Chipiona…
Fantastic…in 1 hour we found Dani’s house and we left the car asleep aswell…
We met Dani and his girlf Veronica, at midnight, with a little surprise, Ivan, another friend from Cremona, was there, and the holiday was definitely on!! We didn’t even get a shower, it was too late and we were too high at that moment to do any thing else, even prepare something to eat…we just had some lonely bread and went to sleep, me and Cresta on the roof (I’m talking about a place where they celebrate xmass dressed with t shirts, they don’t really need bending roofs, they have flat ones!!!) and so we went to sleep on the roof, under a closer starry sky, we had a spliff together before we close our eyes, and we went on for an hour more talking about anything cause we were in decompression and finally chilling out under this impressive sky of Spain, there we realised for the first time, that the sky is not the same in any part of the world…..and it was a revelation for us!!!!
Ok this is it for now…come back for more because there is a lot more to come back for!!!
Tell u soon…ciao!!!!!