Baloo has competitors
It's hard for the average Romanian Joe to accept that this year he will not be able to spend his summer vacations in Greece without testing all of his travelling family. This may sometimes double the costs of the trip of average Romanian Joe. And now, with all the people getting tested, the system is oversaturated and you may end up paying for the test today while you will get the result in 5 days. This complicates the possible vacation of average Romanian Joe because the Greek authorities ask for a test in the last 72 hours. So playing the testing game may be a risky game and may very well cost you up to 300 euros while not getting inside sunny Greece.
Tough luck average Romanian Joe. You are stuck back home. With me. And I don't like that. August is anyway the most crowded month of the year in terms of termites inside every corner of the forest and every patch of sand in the country. Now with all the average Romanian Joes not going to Greece, the things are even worse.
"Put some distance between you and people!" they say. Well, I would but it seems that there are more people than I've expected because in the middle of the forest I have trouble getting some personal space. During weekends, forests in the mountains are packed with different sorts of people:
The Camping Extroverts
The hippie sort of type. They come with their tents and RV's, they prepare big fires for the night and there's always one guy strumming the guitar while being dead drunk or dead high. These people are not the ones going camping at the peak of the mountain, for one night in order to see the stars. No, some of them stay for weeks and they transform their camp in some sort of fortress, with improvised fences and toilets where they shit for weeks (I guess there's some sort of technology involved if the stink coming from there doesn't bother them so long).
Barbeque Devils
They come for one day. Eat some whole animal that they've brought with them in casseroles, either under the form of ground meat or some stakes larger than their ass. They generally are on the "consume and throw away the unnecessary things" mode. IF they clean up after themselves, the garbage back will never go together with them inside the car, they just leave it close to the road, probably expecting someone would come and pick it up. Because, why not? They come in the morning and leave late at night, in between getting generally drunk, making noise and listening to very poor choices of music. Great animal to observe, never to interfere. They may stab you.
Backpack for the day
Those sorts of people who like to lie to themselves that the outdoor 4km walk they've had last year, counts as "sport". Innocent and sweet, they generally care about not leaving trash around, which is good. They park their car close to the objective and start the walk as close as possible to it. Probably that's a strategy, who knows?
What none of these guys observes when they go around nature, is the fruits. But I do.
They pass along good forest fruits zones. I think it's nice to steal from bears, don't you? Knowing that that little fruit could be a bear's dinner drops a chill down my spine :) and then I eat it. And now it's the perfect time for these fruits and if you have an open eye for it, those little things are of the purest taste you've had for some time.
The little ones are crazy for this "treasure hunt" if you show them how to find them. I pinpointed mine on finding the leaves around the forest and she immediately started finding "sweets". The guys that were passing along were probably looking at us as we were some kind of crazy family looking for scraps.
My only concern was not to meet Baloo because his crap was all around these bushes....