Jim Hughes takes you on a camping trip, canoeing down Gauja, a river in Latvia. On his way he tells you some facts about the river, a folk tale, he talks about the calming nature of nature. We check out some nice views and just straight up chill.

This is a two part (maybe even three part) episode. The second part is in the works.

These episodes take a very long time to put together, so if you enjoyed it, please do the cringe thing of subscribing, liking, commenting, sharing - it really helps a lot. And most importantly, join the free patreon, it's legit free as hell, dawg.

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Created by Robert Dirnens

Music by Dalton Wright and Daniel Kelly.

You can find Dalton on:

IG https://instagram.com/daltonwrightmusic/

YT @daltonwrightmusic8598

BandCamp https://daltonwright.bandcamp.com

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0u9ATJj5VA4ygvfUYECHFR?si=UPLpJTjRRFWf3_oCAb1GYA

You can find Daniel on:

IG https://instagram.com/danielkellymusic

YT @DanielKellyFolkMusic

BandCamp https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/259ryE0pBJDAOayk4NK5KK?si=M5alFMb7RLiYDtyG27yD_g

SOURCES/REFERENCES/LINKS:

This image by my wonderful girlfriend Anna, taken during a trip to Gauja in the summer of 2022: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K5TAkDhC8m6LLGoWgFJDYWLAW3uU-ZNL/view?usp=sharing

Folk tale about Gauja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fap7kuMcCtA

A lot of the visual references can be found here: https://www.pinterest.jp/rdirnns/pins/

Inspiration and perspective from this timestamp and the Blue Turtle channel in general: https://youtu.be/oUBuNfiJaWg?si=PnEsgSTLH5kfi6yR&t=124

Surely other photos, paintings and stuff have been used as references or tracings and I apologize if I have failed to mention them here. Let me know if that's the case. I'm a complete dogpoop artist, so everything I do is mostly recreated from existing stuff.

Only God can judge me, though.

Just kidding. You can too.