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As every year I spend part of my vacations at my grandparents' house, in the Lorraine countryside. This year, as I just put a degoogled Android on my old Fairphone 2, I can have a better GPS than on my Pinephone and use it to map tracks and trails in the forest around the house with Vespucci. Till then I could only use JOSM and satellite images to map the place, which is quite difficult for forests, as you cannot see trails under the trees.
We spent a good time with my daughter exploring new ways and new parts of the countryside. The feeling of discovering unexplored places — even if the presence of trails shows that it is just unmapped. But you can only guess where the paths lead, you never know how much time you need nor where you will go. That's quite funny in our very documented world. Paradoxically, by mapping, we remove this possibility of walking in a undocumented world from those who will follow us. I guess this is the ambivalent nature of all exploration.
But bad surprise this morning: she had a tick on the body, probably caught in the wet forest yesterday. We removed it and desinfected the bite. Hopefully she will not be afflicted by tick-borne disease… Even in this temperate region, exploration is fraught with some danger.