Unfortunately my GPS-tracker didn't record any data today, therefore there's only a straight line between the start- and the end-point of today's track :-( It's a shame, the red line that started in front of my flat in Vienna has been broken for the first time...

Even though i tried to avoid it as much as possible(Which mostly ended in detours with dead-ends) today's track went mostly along the D100 - a 4-6 lane motorway with immensely heavy traffic through semi-urban and industrial environment, next to it the highway O-4/E80, even wider and even more traffic.

Seeing this huge amount of traffic(A third of it caused by trucks) and the unregulated and massive urban sprawl which the road was going through, makes me loose faith in the destiny of mankind. Imagine a truck driver, filling his lung with the smoke of burned tobacco leaves, sitting in his big machine that exhausts black waste, moving at 110km/h on a 20m wide sealed surface made of gravel and tar. To the left of him, a second massive street sitting on concrete pillars, sustaining a flow of 60 vehicles a minute. To the right of the truck, the sea, on it's shore a mountain of scrapmetal(We are talking of a 50m high, 70m wide and 300m long pile of rusty steelfragments) which is unloaded from a ship equally large. A few kilometers before this situation, the street was going through a terrain the size of a town full of heavy industry, a few hours later in the day, we will pass through 3 merging urban areas, each housing 200.000 inhabitants, stretching over 30km along the road, hundreds of cheaply(and ugly) built office- and residential-buildings, thousands of people living and working next to roaring motorways, on the hills some 5km away, dozens of new large-scale housings, quickly constructed to sustain the demand for cheap flats. This urban area is tiny compared to the size of the metropolis close to it. Imagine the same shore, the shore of the Sea of Marmara, 3 generations earlier, 60 years ago. Imagine it 3000 years ago. Imagine it in 100 years. Are you sure we're better of than hunters and gatherers? Where are we heading? Can this uncontrolled grow still be slowed down and civilization as we know it continue in a sustainable way?

Late in the afternoon, i took a single chance to flee northwards on a sideroad through hills where i've found a quiet campspot under an oaktree. It's beautiful up here.