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I seem to have reached a point in my early years where things are slowing down, just when I want them to speed up and get exciting, and perhaps that’s why the next few years would, usually, involve experimentation with drugs in order to regain the buzz that your mid teens provided. But, me being me, I don’t want to sit back and just take whatever happens; and watching Blue 88 depart on an epic trip around the world gave me the spark of inspiration that will, hopefully, take the next period of my life quite literally in a different direction.
My early motorbike adventure memories include a ride to Le Mans on the back of my dad’s bike, complete with a sleeping bag and pillow for me! Then at sixteen I rode to Wales on my Yamaha FS1-E; and okay the two days it took is nothing compared to the Mc-Boorman adventures, but it sowed the seeds of exploration that are blooming now. As I write I have an open atlas next to me and I keep catching Rio de Janeiro in the corner of my eye.
Now, I’m not jumping on the bandwagon and planning a trip just because someone else done it on the telly or anything like that, it’s just inevitable that I am going to go on a large scale escapade like this at some point in my life and this seems as good a time as any. Once I have finished my studies in a couple of months, I have nothing stopping me just going and riding, doing what I love until I can’t take it any more! (which could be a very long time, who knows? That’s the beauty!) It makes sense to go now while I have few responsibilities and before the whole planet is at war over oil or terrorism (or whatever other lies they are spinning to keep us scared and ensure we don’t examine their motives too closely).
So early plans are: find some solid work for at least six months and earn a decent wedge that will see me through the first travel period. Once the money is in the bank and other preparations are in place, the journey begins. Ideally I would like to start in Rio, with a bike already over there but sourced somehow from over here. I plan to travel the entire eastern coast of South and Central America.
Starting in Brazil I go north through, depending on the political climate, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Columbia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize and Mexico. Once I reach the U.S of A, then depending on my economic situation, I want to arrange some kind of work to pay my way up their East Coast and eventually into and across Canada.
I stress ACROSS because I would like to try and avoid the Arctic Circle! Once I am acquainted with the glaciers and bears I have the small task of working my way down the West Coast of America, then jaunting back down Central America and a small ride through Peru, Chile and Argentina and finally back to Rio, where it all began.
Nothing much then. Some might say I would be biting off more than I could chew, but I reckon, given the right companion, combined with the ambition and determination that I have, then it is more than doable. I’m getting flashes of the kind of scenery I will see and the completely contrasting cultures that I will experience… But planning starts now and who knows where I will be this time next year or even two years from now, but I sure as hell hope it is not London or even England! Now I have to go, I’ve got an e-mail to send to Charley Boorman.
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