Oaxaca is famous for its flavors. I’ve been diving into…
Oaxaca is famous for its flavors. I’ve been diving into its drinks - tonic, coffee, dry orange peels, fermented beetroot. Cold, strange, absurdly good.
Gil Alter
Rolling through life on wheels | Taking on daily challenges to fight darkness | Sharing real moments
2025
November 2025
The sun was a hard yellow ball in the Mexican…
The sun was a hard yellow ball in the Mexican sky, the air thick with the smell of grilled meat and dust. I didn’t meant to start trouble - just a few sharp words, a misunderstanding that grew teeth. Voices rose, hands pointed, someone called the police. By the time the siren wail through the heat, I lost interest. I slipped through the crowd, calm, invisible, the noise fading behind me. For me, time had no meaning, only the next corner, the next agua fresca, the next adventure.
When you smoke daily your new normal changes Without it…
When you smoke daily your new normal changes
Without it everything feels a bit low
dimmed
The balance hangs lower than before
and you start to forget how light once felt
without a spark to lift it
It hit hard last night. Late evening, after dinner. The…
It hit hard last night.
Late evening, after dinner.
The pain went through the roof the kind that blows your mind.
A neurological storm, invisible, harsh, fkn merciless. From the outside I looked calm making my jokes, smiling.
Inside there was rough chaos a soup of fear, frustration, anger, desperation - all crashing in waves of pure suffering.
When we got home I went to the shower.
The pressure was good, the water warm. I gripped the handles let the warmth cover me, and it was okay.
Then I whispered, fuck it!...
The last time I fell was a while ago on…
The last time I fell was a while ago on a crowded beach. Before the Trekinetic
I tried to walk a few steps on the sand without help. It was not courage. It was pride disguised as independence.
When you live with multiple sclerosis, falling is not a metaphor. It is a threat.
But it also exposes something most people never face: public fragility
The moment when your weakness is not private anymore. When your body tells the truth your ego tries to hide.
It is brutal. It is so humbling. And it forces a kind of honesty I had no idea I’ll ever need.
The road itself become big part of this Mexican story…
The road itself become big part of this Mexican story for us,
We are driving through the Mexican mountains - where the highway slices straight through stone and the cliffs occasionally remind you who is in charge. You slow down. The car shakes. The Trekinetic in the back jumps like it is alive. A tiny rock rolls down on the road, then another. For a second you feel both fear and fascination.
It is strange how quickly control becomes illusion - how one moment you are cruising and the next, you are humbled by gravity, by nature, by luck.
Leaving, I realised: Good intentions are easy. Feeling your impact…
Leaving, I realised:
Good intentions are easy.
Feeling your impact is harder.
I didn’t always get that right.
Leaving, I realised: Good intentions are easy. Feeling your impact…
Leaving, I realised:
Good intentions are easy.
Feeling your impact is harder.
I didn’t always get that right.
Leaving, I realised: Good intentions are easy. Feeling your impact…
Leaving, I realised:
Good intentions are easy.
Feeling your impact is harder.
I didn’t always get that right.
You stop thinking in weeks or months. You think in…
You stop thinking in weeks or months.
You think in moments
between one wave of pain and the next.
People talk about pain
like its a challenge,
a lesson,
a thing you grow from....
Three weeks on the road through Mexico. Hours of heat,…
Three weeks on the road through Mexico.
Hours of heat, dust, uneven streets.
Travel strips away what isn’t essential.
Bit by bit, my body let go - sugar, heavy food, weed, pastries…
Even coffee shrank to one small cup a day.
No discipline. No plan.
Addiction just faded....
Hierve el Agua Rough nights the last few days. Pain…
Hierve el Agua
Rough nights the last few days. Pain running high. Hard beds, one pillow, no airflow in the rooms. It’s very hard for me to turn from lying on my back to lying on my right side. That turn requires muscle movements that make it extremely difficult for me at night.
At home I have the wooden bars on the head of the bed. Here I don’t. So every turn at night is a struggle that wakes me up.
And then there is the need to change position from lying to sitting on the bed in order to be able to pee a few times per night. Changing position from lying to sitting is really almost impossible here. There’s nothing to hold onto or pull myself with like I have at home. When traveling this becomes a major issue.
Eventually I do get to sleep a few hours in between all those hustles, as I got used to it, but in the last few days the church bells outside, Day of the Dead, ringing a lot. Beautiful tradition but not great timing. Your body already refuses sleep, then the bells say “stay with us.” So you do.
We’ve been moving through Mexico, Mexico City, Puebla, Tehuacán, Oaxaca, each place amazing in its own way, different vibes, aesthetics, people, faces, smells, food and so on....
Enchiladas are soft tortillas rolled, filled and swim in chili…
Enchiladas are soft tortillas rolled, filled and swim in chili sauce…
Tlayudas are giant crispy tortillas loaded with beans, cheese and meat, like Oaxaca’s 😋 street pizza.
We learned that Tlayudas stay crunchy because the masa is pressed thicker and cooked twice and the cheese used is quesillo, the signature Oaxacan string cheese (it’s not mozzarella)
When the night falls, I’m not going back to the…
When the night falls, I’m not going back to the bruises of the day.
Some self doubt comes from you. Some comes from someone…
Some self doubt comes from you.
Some comes from someone you once listened to.
When you spot the foreign kind, it loses authority.
October 2025
Leaving, I realised: Good intentions are easy. Feeling your impact…
Leaving, I realised:
Good intentions are easy.
Feeling your impact is harder.
I didn’t always get that right.
Meanwhile in Oaxaca. 🌼✨💀 #trekinetic #travellingwithwheelchair #wheelchair
Meanwhile in Oaxaca. 🌼✨💀
#trekinetic #travellingwithwheelchair #wheelchair
When you live with a chronic illness, fear often hides…
When you live with a chronic illness, fear often hides underneath everything.
Physical pain and weakness activate the body’s danger sense - real or imagined - and often, it finds threats in people, in moments, in memories.
That constant alert push you into fight mode.
Suddenly, small misunderstandings turn into sharp edges.
Resentments build. Old stories replay. Your energy gets tied up fighting.
There comes a point where replaying what someone did, or what went wrong, just drains you.
With MS, that drain is real - energy isn’t abstract! it’s your daily fuel....
I was on a call with a friend. He had…
I was on a call with a friend.
He had just come back from a therapist who uses some new method, never mind the name, and for the first time in years, he sounded light.
I hadnt heard him sound like that in a long time.
I told him you should post about it.
He laughed. And what? Get three likes?
He said it like a joke, but it wasnt.
People who truly don’t care don’t keep explaining why they don’t share.
...
Especially when you travel, every time you arrive somewhere new,…
Especially when you travel, every time you arrive somewhere new, it’s usually dark. You are tired from the road everything looks strange, and your mind reads every face as a threat.
So - do not make any big decisions that night, or even early the next day.
Wait.
Spend a full day just walking around.
Find the best coffee in town and stay there for a while.
Talk to people. If the guy next to you seems chill, say hi. If not, talk to the waitress.
...
Ask me anything about wheelchair travel – the real version,…
Ask me anything about wheelchair travel - the real version, from the road.
“Fuck it” is underrated philosophy. Perfection is propaganda.
“Fuck it” is underrated philosophy.
Perfection is propaganda.
Take it into consideration – you might mess it up…
Take it into consideration - you might mess it up because of the third thing.
You will manage your body, your pain, your energy. That is one.
You will show up for life - for others, for work, for the moments that matter. That is two.
Then comes the third thing - the wanting.
The thank you, the “you r amazing” the proof that someone noticed.
But listen: the third thing isn’t in your control.
And even when it shows up, it doesn’t last. It fades quick.
The third thing is rubbish....
There is no room for mistake when every wrong bite…
There is no room for mistake when every wrong bite means a search for a toilet or a lost day.
I didn’t change my diet.
The road changed it for me…
There is no room for mistake when every wrong bite…
There is no room for mistake when every wrong bite means a search for a toilet or a lost day.
I didn’t change my diet.
The road changed it for me…
Rolling through life on wheels | Taking on daily challenges to fight darkness | Sharing real moments
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October 3, 1973
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