RUTA

Discover with Kerimcan who spends his life on the road and takes photos instead of notes.

I am in a land where people are allowed to dream, and to chase those dreams. I am trying to understand Norway, where a man who works as a bell-ringer while pursuing his dream of becoming a poet, can exist, how a society can move into the future if oil revenues are used properly, and how a peaceful country based on trust can be created.

Meanwhile, the gas light of the car comes on. I enter the first gas station. We hand over our crowns to pay for the gas at the cashier inside. The gas station attendant says with great ease that the nearest bank is 30 kilometers away and therefore he cannot accept cash. We look at each other, amazed, and laugh. We are in Norway and every day we are confronted with civilizational saturation and well-situatedness like this.

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