Retail; the drug of the nation

This is almost certainly not the highest retail outlet in the world. Great advertising vision though!

Sunset

Kampala Market

                                                                 Boda Boda are the local bike taxis

Andaman Sunset

                                                                Malaysia 2010.

The islands out to sea are in Thailand.

Morocco, Atlantic Coast.

                                                                      Morocco, 2007.

Heading north from Agadir on the coast road, simple navigation - keep the sea on the left!  This stop was from a headland into the Atlantic just south of Essouira.

HST

                                                                Hunter S Thompson

“So it was always at night, like a werewolf, that I would take the thing out for an honest run down the coast. I would start in Golden Gate Park, thinking only to run a few long curves to clear my head . . . but in a matter of minutes I’d be out at the beach with the sound fof the engine in my ears, the surf booming up on the sea wall and a fine empty road stretching all the way along Santa Cruz . . . "

DAKAR Compilation. Work through the Bon Jovi and the crashes start to happen in their own time

THE BEST FROM PARIS DAKAR 2

THE BEST FROM PARIS DAKAR (motorcycles)

Thinking space

“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. --- Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.” - Nikola Tesla

Liminality brings parity

Psychologists call \"liminal space,\" a place where boundaries dissolve a little and we pause there, on the threshold, getting ourselves ready to move across the limits of what we were into what we are to be. You recognise this place: its inside your helmet!

Manali - Leh 2010.

Taken from 'Pig's' saddle; note Sicknote ahead trying a bit of overtaking in the mud.

Roots

New things are good things and my familiar things are weathered and worn. The wheel goes ever round but two wheels slow it a little. I may have the watch but someone else has the time.

Motion without emotion

This post is for when 'Adventure' riding goes back to being the lonely preserve of the driven, the disposessed and the wanderering souls. Balance and motion are the sea anchor of emotion.