How does one get back into the rut of work and home after a big trip?
In my case, one doesn't!
My first trip was USA and Canada in 1980, up the west coast, along the Alaska Highway when it was all gravel, on a BMW R90S.
Utterly unsuitable bike for gravel, but I didn't know any better, thus everything worked out fine.
When I returned home to (then) the UK and I was getting interviews for jobs, I was inevitably asked about the gap in my employment history, which I explained away by saying the trip was just something I needed to get out of my system, blah blah blah, knowing full well that I just wanted to earn enough tin to get on the road again.
40 years later, I'm still up to the same old silliness, last year was a 35,000km lap around Australia, this year is Norway into the arctic circle and then south through Russia and Ukraine, looping pack through southern Europe, ending up on the Isle of Man for the Manx GP.
Work is for horses.
Feb 2022 Edit..... well, we all know what happened to the trip through Russia in early 2019, don't we children?
Covid happened.
Latest update, bike is en route to UK for a ride through Europe, Iran, Pakistan and India, and then.....? who knows?
Keep dreaming, keep planning, keep saving then start riding.
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Last edited by PrinceHarley; 22 Feb 2022 at 00:28.
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