Off On A Bimble

                                                        Home again - tired but happy!    Next day, I feel 100% and ready to set out on the next bit of the trip; back up the south coast towards Ulladulla, or around there. Depends on how tired I feel as to where I'll stay, I only have to please myself!  Ha I have remembered the name of the Italian girl I fancied; Paola!!! She was lovely  Her and I say goodbye with a kiss and a hug, and then I set off up the road into a light misty rain. These are roads that I have ridden down the other way at the start of my trip. The roads might be the same but I am not. I have gained a huge sense of self confidence, learned to enjoy my bike a lot more, the joys of just sitting in the middle of nowhere looking at a view, and enjoying a bit of solitude. And I'm also be...

                                                        SRX600 somewhere in the High Country  I wrote this about 10 years after the trip itself. There no doubt the trip changed my life. See what you think. I have edited some bits out as on reflection, they were not my best stuff. I'm a better writer than I was in 2006. I hope.  In about mid 1997 I had a bit of a let down r omantically and this led to a bout of introspection and examination of my life, at the time mainly concerned with working, playing the banjo in a band, and riding my newly aquired SRX600 - having passed my test a few weeks earlier. So I was feeling a bit down and wondered what to do about it; the truth probably was that I had been a bit down for about 3-4 years, but had not noticed it creeping up on me. Maybe a bike trip, my first ever, woul...

                                                      One of my most common destinations this weird year - Dream Machine                                                                  near Modbury. Its been a very strange year for motorcycling for me. After the highs of last year in Italy, and a few winter rides, I returned from a visit to my family in Australia in early March to a much changed UK. The government was giving different kinds of advice every day, and there were rumours of a “lock-down” - whatever that would entail. There was one reasonably fun day on the Guzzi and then that was it. We were not to ride unless it was es...