23/07/2007 planes, trains and automobiles... Back to the real world!

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Here I am,  back in the real world, the world of planes, trains and automobiles, shopping malls, golf simulators, televisions and computers, back in a hectic, man-made world.

Step by step I slowly walk the streets like a patient just dismissed from a hospital, without orientation or goal. Merely a stranger to myself. Something really powerful has got a hold on me: the experience of being on the road for almost two and a half month all across Europe from the Southeast all the way to the Far North.

I can still smell the trees, the rain and the strawberry fields in Spain, I can taste the sun on my face, hear the rhythm of my shovelhead ringing in my ears and feel the vibrations of my rigid moving under my skin. In the far distance more than 24'000 kilometres away lay buried my everyday troubles, hundreds of roundabouts have helped getting my head straight back on again and the millions of trees we have passed have ensured plenty of oxygen for the rejuvenation of the brain, mind and soul. Yet, even though i was hoping that riding would put a new perspective on things, I still wonder, how come we put ourselves out on a limb? Seventy days of hardship, beauty and joy and that many days with all kinds questions on your mind and still, no answers!

The question is why?

find out for yourself.....

live your dreams

Stephan