When I go riding on my bike, the world around me becomes exciting and so elegant all at once, so despite the shortcomings, disasters and horrors… I embrace it. I know it is not just me having these feelings, but I’m definitely another nature lover looking for unanswered questions in an extraordinary manner as well. I cherish the pictures caught by my camera and the ones remained forever in my essence.
20 Feb 2025 1 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr
Every morning, as soon as I wake, my first instinct is to check the “power outage” schedule for the day. Two hours without electricity. Every single day. I rearrange my life around it, learning to exist in the gaps between light and darkness. It’s...
5 Feb 2025 1 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr
I searched for you—through time, through moments, through this ever-darkened era. And at last, I found you.Do you want to know what it was that I found?I’ll tell you in just a moment…Every now and then, I would set out on my bike, gliding through nat...
16 Jan 2025 1 minute read 11 comments Melina Mehr
It all started with a simple walk along the beach. I had just lost my job and found myself with an unsettling amount of free time. Losing a job is funny in a not-so-funny way. At first, it hits you with this wave of panic—your mind running a hundred...
5 Oct 2023 1 minute read 5 comments Melina Mehr
In the deepest depths of despair, where hope appears to wane, They speak of a moment, when despair's shadows are most profane, When hands that once entwined, now part like they'll never meet again, A flicker of light awaits, in that darkness, I pr...
11 Jun 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
Last week, a good friend of mine and I went on a different biking trip in the forest. It was mostly more discovering than riding, and at every turn, so many wildly grown trees and vegetation, unusual village settlements, and pristine nature were a...
24 Apr 2023 1 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr
I'm not gonna lie, it's a bit scary not putting on Hijab, the mandatory scarf that society has been used to for more than 40 years. People stare, mostly because they all know the war has begun. Eyes are looking for Hijabless women and their hair...
31 Jul 2022 1 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr
When an accident happens, especially when the human hand reaches nowhere, you can clearly recognize people’s actual nature. People reveal their true selves in travel, but they reveal their real personalities in dire moments of life ... and cyclists...
24 Apr 2022 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
Salsal Castle in Lisar is one of our most common cycling destinations of ours, which is a tourist attraction and is about 40 km far away. The allure of the trip is mostly because of the gorgeous surrounding landscape as you climb up the castle. Also...
13 Apr 2022 1 minute read 10 comments Melina Mehr
The photos I took this weekend from my trip to the sea have become strangely similar to black and white photos. With the onset of hot seasons and the end of the cold bitter winter, life takes on a different path. As if it had never sunk in the tur...
3 Mar 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
What happens when a dear friend finds her way back to you, even if it is for a selfish reason… A friend who has been away from you for years, her sudden return can be blissful. Last week, before the cycling trip, one of my friends called saying tha...
