Michele Harrison > Quotes

“The journey was uneventful (apart from a bulldozer reversing into my bike and ripping apart my luggage).”
― Michele Harrison, All the Gear, No Idea: A woman's solo motorcycle journey around the Indian subcontinent

“It was reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance that did it. In it, the author explains that there are two types of people: the romantics (the Zen part of the title) and the classics (the motorcycle maintenance part of the title). Romantics are interested in the pleasure of riding a bike, while classics are interested in the pleasure of understanding how the bike works.”
― Michele Harrison, All the Gear, No Idea: A woman's solo motorcycle journey around the Indian subcontinent

“There are few things more satisfying than weaving your bike in and out of almost four kilometres of stationary traffic.”
― Michele Harrison, All the Gear, No Idea: A woman's solo motorcycle journey around the Indian subcontinent

“As I parked my bike alongside one of the temples, set by a tranquil lake where young girls were washing laundry, I was assailed by a dozen little boys who insisted on escorting me into the building.”
― Michele Harrison, All the Gear, No Idea: A woman's solo motorcycle journey around the Indian subcontinent

“He came down from the traffic island. His face softened and he asked, ‘Do you have anything sweet to smoke?’ A policeman asking me for hash? I didn’t know what to say.”
― Michele Harrison, All the Gear, No Idea: A woman's solo motorcycle journey around the Indian subcontinent