Status Updates From Lone Rider: The First Briti...

A volunteer from work told me to read this when I told him about my upcoming adventure🥹I’m gassed that she decided to do this after her fella and her broke up. She’s the original risk taker and I love it

“Looking af all the poverty and hardship slide past the window, Listening to Mozart’s _Requiem_, alienating myself drom it all, was almost like watching a television programme.”

“I followed Sanatan up a flight of steps into an extraordinary colonial building in which I immediately felt at home.”

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Mycket inspererande!

“Even when problems seemed insurmountable, I’d learnt there was always a way to deal with them. Do what you’ve always done when faced with more problems than you can handle, I told myself. Break it down. A big problem is no more than lots of small problems.”

“It struck me that people in poorer countries appeared happier, even though they had very little. Life was much simpler in the less developed countries we’d travelled through, and it seemed the more people had the more they wanted. It was clear to me now how easy it is to take things for granted and forget to be grateful for the basics in life: family, food, and shelter-“

“After two years of travelling slowly through the developing world, sometimes at walking pace, it was a massive shock to find myself on German autobahns. Whenever I ventured into the overtaking lane, hugely powerful BMW and Mercedes cars would bear down on me at frightening speeds, their headlights flashing. Suddenly I was back in the manic thrust of Western Europe.”

“I had to stop and take a picture. Just seeing London painted on a sign for the first time in two years was a very significant moment in my journey. For the first time I felt completion was within my grasp. Now I really wanted to get home quickly. I was tired. I was ill. I was weak. My bike was just hanging on, bandaged together by too many makeshift repairs”

“Dealing with the hassles of riding in India – sometimes a dozen or more of them in a day – pulled Robert and me closer together. We became a team, helping each other get through it all. But I worried all the time that eventually it would be too much for Robert – he seemed to be becoming increasingly frustrated with it all. I started to worry that, when I least expected, he would completely lose it”