48h Mikroabenteuer – Motocamping auf Møn (1)

A 48-hour adventure to Møn with a motorcycle, tent, and frying pan. Even short trips can be great adventures—shorter ones, admittedly—but adventures nonetheless. One of my best trips lasted just 48 hours, yet it was incredibly adventurous and intense. Another short trip lasted five days when I was breaking in my new Africa Twin. I went to the Lüneburg Heath. Not Ireland, not France, not Norway, but the old, stuffy Lüneburg Heath. And it was fantastic! Some short trips are more memorable than four weeks in Ireland. Kahneman's peak-end rule A possible explanation for how these rather meager short trips managed to leave such a positive impression might be Kahneman's peak-end rule. Applied to travel, it means that for the retrospective evaluation of the experience, not the entire trip is decisive, but only the most intense moment (peak) and the end. A mediocre trip can turn out to be fantastic in retrospect if it had a strong positive peak and a great ending. But it can also be remembered as entirely negative if there was one particularly bad experience and the ending was also negative, perhaps because it rained for days on end on the return journey. Long trips aren't an option for me right now because I want to do care work at home, and in the meantime, I want to keep my wanderlust alive with 48-hour microadventures. Microadventures with a motorcycle and tent have one huge advantage: a guaranteed good weather. "How come?" "Because you don't even set off in the first place if it's raining, stupid!"