Everywhere Virtually

The final day at the Touratech Travel Event was a good opportunity to catch up on any talks I had missed, make some more friends and the whole point of the weekend… “Talk Bikes”.

I met Charley Boorman and had a small chat with him. he kindly obliged with the obligatory photo. In fact he obliged twice because the first time I fucked it up as it was inside, I had a weird puss face on me and well I’m such a narcissist I had to get the damn shot right didn’t I? I’m a Gemini just bear with me on this one . He comes across as a decent bloke… not that I’m expecting him to be any different from anyone else. You just get the feeling he has time for people and is a pretty genuine chap when all is said and done.

I bumped into a fellow rider I knew from Cheshire. he was keen to get going so I decided to tag along and he was packed and fueled in double quick time. Even though I have streamlined my packing process I was feeling hot, bothered and rushed.

I was all sorted in the end.

We set a fair pace as we headed North but he wasn’t happy with his sat nav. He had a route he wanted to take and I was happy to let my sat nav figure out a nice route. We had different kit and no doubt slightly different maps and thus the two units had different ideas of where they wanted to go. Add into the mix two riders who had obviously set different home locations and the end result was that it all went to pot.

After an hour of nailing it through the Welsh countryside I got fed up of seeing the natural beauty go past in a blur. I eased off the gas and let my IAM speed demon companion disappear over the horizon while I took in the sights, stopped for a few breaks and took photos.

The shot below looks quite ordinary but it was the hay bails that caught my eye. I took this in mid shropshire

I made it home in the early evening with a sense that I had experienced a very good event. It was how I believed adventure motorcycling should be. Not crossing a desert but meeting people and sharing a passion for motorbikes.

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