Pedro

If you can aford one, go for a ride on a GS, post 2015, and see how you like it. Then ride a Strom 650 and see if that’s also a fit for travelling. I think a Strom 650 would be my choice for a cheaper bike compared to mine, the modern ones appeal to me.

If you end up trading, kindly ask for an address so I can send them my commissions invoice.

This is me on a song

This is currently my favourite song to have pop up on my helmet while on the bike. On the very rare occasions I turned the music on in Morocco to fight a little tiredness this music started as I was stopping for a drink of water, and couldn’t help but do a little jig around the bike. Wasn’t aware I was being watched by a kid laughing so hard he almost fell of his donkey

It was, she used a mix of spices I brought from Morocco. It was delicious!

Legend! I wouldn’t make an effort to go out in that.

Adventure, that’s the word you want. Otherwise it’s just silly.

That never stopped anyone on here, it’s almost a requirement in fact

That sounds like a new category. And racist, that’s racist!

He was my second choice for MOTY, because nobody new has ever not annoyed me except him. Plus his bike choice, he deserves something positive in his life to offset that.

See other thread, I nominate @boboneleg Sorry Bob, I meant well but made a mess of your first nomination. Bob’s a great guy with a smile present on everything he writes so vote Bob.

You shut up, if you were to have a say you’d be mod. I hereby replace my Bob nomination by now nominating @busabeast

Pete, stop making this stuff while pre dinner drinks are being consumed and I’m on the phone’s small screen.

I retreat @boboneleg as my nomination. Sorry, Bob, I’ll wait for the next submission thread. I will not nominate anyone for TOTY, and my vote will not be revealed either, last year was enough

I’ve got a client that some days can hardly walk on account of gout, bad stuff.

@boboneleg is my nomination. Bob’s posts are always uplifting, I like him and it’s time he got MOTY.

He also too the less travelled route, judging by the trails. got to love the commitment to WOT a 450 and deal with gravity

Rode to Sofia’s today, avoiding dark clouds and rains all the way, I realized I missed being on the bike! Also think I’ll keep the suspension soft and these tires for now, I ride slower like this, while feeling like on an adventure

I thought they would have minced meat on the inside, but turns out nothing inside those pies is minced? Is the whole food thing in the UK a joke on foreigners?

Why is that? Isn't it a Kawasaki H2 engine?

WOW, let's not carried away and take two pictures on a ride! I find more simplicity helps with this, I just took my phone. You don't need stuff complicating the getting on and off the bike, gets tiresome. Thank you for the compliment, but I really need to work on my English, it used to be a quite more elaborate. That's interesting and exactly what I was thinking about myself on most of the ride back. I have found out several things about myself. During the moment it sometimes felt surreal and like it wasn't really me experiencing moments, it felt sort of like reading about someone doing what I was living through. Sort of a weird numb feeling sometimes in which I surprised myself at little I was feeling, but at the same time I fell apart and lost control in other situations. What made me break up emotionally were not feelings of sadness but of reliving events that happened. I still feel like I left Maria there and it still broke my heart to come back and leave her again, that's why I rode straight back home. It'll still be very hard to go back again, similarly hard but with less of the unknown factor, and at the same time I will go back for sure and avoid a few places that didn't show me love. I always have had a relationship with places that I like, some reward me for the relationship some don't, some just take and don't give back and they're like a difficult relationship to which I come back again and again. I really missed the adventure feeling of being somewhere completely not European, and that feeling of riding into a small mountain village with smoke in the air and food smells, I miss that now already. I also learned I can ride better than I thought through some sorts of terrains, and it gave me confidence on the bike, and I was never tired or bored or not feeling like riding in the morning. I enjoyed doing this alone, and that hurts me and makes me feel like I'm betraying a lot of things I can't even pronounce.

That's a cool thing!

After a night of drinking by myself, woke up and stayed in bed till a little bit later than normal, then the sun came out and I drove to a friend's parent's for lunch with them. Nice long enough drive each way to get the moisture out of the old car's engine. Those are farming fields next to the road, irrigated by the Tejo but not part of the river. Safe to say this region is no longer in a draught!