2003, Afanasiya and Ponoy rivers
At first the river was calm, leisurely and we easily paddled against the current. So easily that we had time to look around and think about the journey. Because there is nothing sweeter and more exciting than to think about a journey, especially at the beginning of it. Only on the road are you truly free and honest before God and yourself. In any other circumstances, being dependent on human structures bends you down to earth. Only by taking upon yourself the whole joy of the burden of the road to life or death, by having only the sky over you and the earth or water under your feet, do you become the true master of yourself. The only thing that can help you is the cross you wear on your chest and the only thing that can hinder you are falsities from the pa
