The plan was simple:
\ud83d\ude99 Drive to a quiet corner near Clermont-Ferrand,
\ud83c\udf32 find a safe place to test the tent,
\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f install, adjust, sleep under the stars.
And frankly\u2026 it started well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perfect setup, a little time to position the camp correctly, everything was ready. And then... barely had the two of them settled up there when a not very reassuring noise was heard. I'm going down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udd27 Verdict: one of the side bars that supports the tent<\/strong> broke. Morale? Affected, but not sunk. No precise diagnosis yet, but it will come. Inkavik moves forward. To be continued. \ud83d\udee0\ufe0f\ud83c\udf0c<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le plan \u00e9tait simple :\ud83d\ude99 Rouler vers un coin calme pr\u00e8s de Clermont-Ferrand,\ud83c\udf32 trouver un endroit s\u00fbr pour tester la tente,\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f installer, ajuster, dormir sous les \u00e9toiles.Et franchement\u2026 \u00e7a commen\u00e7ait bien. Montage nickel, un peu de temps pour bien positionner le campement, tout \u00e9tait pr\u00eat.J\u2019avais anticip\u00e9 les petits d\u00e9tails, cal\u00e9 l\u2019essentiel, v\u00e9rifi\u00e9 deux fois.La lumi\u00e8re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,11,12],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iceland","category-preparatifs","category-tuiles","tag-iceland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inkavik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inkavik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inkavik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inkavik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inkavik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inkavik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/inkavik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inkavik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inkavik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inkavik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inkavik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I had anticipated the small details, planned the essentials, checked twice.
The light was falling, the air was becoming milder.
We were finally going to spend our first night in the tent.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not dramatic, but clearly not an invitation to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Net. Nothing to do on site.
No bivouac that evening \u2014 return to Vichy in the middle of the night<\/strong>, a little groggy, a little disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And somewhere, better now than later<\/strong>, in the middle of the Icelandic wind.
There is still time to repair, strengthen, improve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These kinds of unforeseen events are also part of the journey \u2014 even when it begins in a parking lot in Auvergne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes with a little dust\u2026 sometimes with a little breakage.
But he moves forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n