Sun bathing in the 1970s was something I’d never seen in real life before, and even then it seemed strange to me.
But the experience was magical.
In a very real sense, it was my first time being immersed in sun bathing.
My body had always been designed for it, with a perfectly functioning photoreceptor in my eye that let me see the sun through a narrow window and the rest of the world in the distance.
But with the advent of modern technology, this simple function could be easily switched off.
In the 1970’s, sun bathing had become a thing of the past.
Sunscreens were everywhere.
I’d seen a movie of a couple of hundred people who were bathing in a pool, and they were wearing sunscreen.
That seemed like a pretty good start, but I wanted to go deeper.
After all, the sun is the source of life on Earth.
I wanted the experience to be as natural as possible.
So I made the most of it, and I took advantage of a good tan.
This, of course, led to an obsession with sun bathing in general.
Sunspots were everywhere, so I went in every direction, as far as possible, to the nearest sun.
I started my journey from the South Pole, as the sun would rise there in the afternoon.
I decided to head to the Australian outback for a week.
The sun was shining in the sky, and the only way to get near it was to climb into the back of a pickup truck.
In those days, I could not afford a truck.
I needed a car, so my plan was to go to a petrol station and buy a cheap car.
I would not have been able to get a car in Australia if it wasn’t for the oil subsidies.
As I sat in the backseat, I was amazed by the amount of energy and fuel I was consuming.
By the end of the trip, I had run up to 700km on petrol.
I went on a little fishing trip and I did not have a car.
So, when the sun was coming up, I’d take my truck to the supermarket to buy petrol.
The petrol would be cheap, but the truck would be quite old.
The salesman was a big, fat man in his 70s who was selling petrol and food, so the truck was a little heavy.
I asked him how much I could pay him, and he said it would be just under $20.
After a while, I decided it would probably be better to drive it.
So it was about five minutes later when I spotted the sun rising.
I was so excited.
My life was in complete control.
I didn’t even have to wait for it to go down, as I was in the middle of nowhere, in the desert.
The first thing I did was to pull the car out of the parking lot.
It was quite big, and it had a big hood.
The driver said, “Come on, come on, we’re going to get you in there.”
I went out in the truck, and in about 20 seconds I was inside.
I put on my mask and started looking for the nearest beach.
I saw some big sand dunes, and then I saw the sun.
The sand was hot, and when I went to look at it, it looked so bright.
I walked towards it, thinking, This is my paradise.
The second I looked, the sand had turned a bright red, and there was a line of sand just a few metres away.
I looked at it.
It looked beautiful.
I took a look and I said, OK, it’s not that great, but it looks beautiful.
It’s like this is my heaven.
I had just been there.
The next day, I left the beach, which is a good way to do it.
The car had just got there, and all the other people were swimming, playing soccer, and doing other things.
So when I got back to the car, I put my mask on, got into the truck and started driving.
I got there in five minutes.
I knew I was going to be swimming, but my first thought was, I’ve got to go on this trip.
So as soon as I got inside the car I started walking towards the beach.
As soon as the beach got close, I started swimming.
I never knew where I was, but after a while I started feeling the sun on my skin.
And then I got to the beach and started swimming around.
I’ve never felt anything like it.
I have never felt more alive.
It is wonderful, and so very different from anything I’ve ever felt before.
But I’ve had this experience before, where I’ve done this before, I thought, I’m going to have a blast.
But that experience, this experience