While spending my days dreaming about life on the road and patiently waiting for ‘the cultural photopedal’ to be a reality, I am trying to collect travel songs which calm my wanderlust down. We have a corner for nomadic ears on our blog, but today I want to share five nordic videos that will have you hitting the road.

Laleh

Ane Brun

Thomas Dybdhal

Anna Ternheim

Mari Boine

PS: a downloadable gift for the nomadic ear: La Shica - Let me live my way

I just finished ‘Into the wild’ by Jon Krakauer, and I am sitting here in Vancouver with the same feeling as at that time in Bergen when I heard ‘To let myself go’ for the first time in my life. Chris wrote a quite few letters to people he met on his ‘alaskan odyssey’. This is an excerpt from an encouraging letter sent to Ron:

… so many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of your life, Ron, you must loose you inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter – skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty …