01-06-2015, 01:57 AM
I can't say I am an adventure motorcyclist, although I would like to be! Up until now, I simply have not had the time to really get out there and travel the world on a bike, but I have often thought about doing it. Perhaps someday when I have enough money to stop working I will go on a proper ride.
However, throughout my life I have travelled extensively and the thing I particularly enjoy is the discovery of everything unknown. I love finding and trying local food, and to date there is nothing I have not eaten. There have been some pretty strange things sometimes in my travels through Asia or Africa, but I always figure that if the locals can eat it and live, then so can I. As far as language is concerned, that is not a huge problem either as together with my wife we cover fluently English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Italian, and can get by in Japanese and some Arabic. You also get a knack for communicating in English with locals that don't necessarily speak it like in China or other Chinese speaking countries.
I got used to moving around in some foreign places very early on, and have grown up a bit all over the world. I am Swedish, but the place in the world that I feel the most like a stranger is actually Sweden. So, the whole world adventure part of a trip like this is totally within my comfort zone.
My biggest problem is my obvious lack of mechanical skills. I have friends that have done some pretty adventurous rides, and there will always come a moment when something brakes down in a remote place, and I really don't think I would be able to fix it. More than anything else, this would be my main concern before setting off on such a trip, so the best would be to do it together with somebody who is a bit more mechanically inclined than myself.
However, throughout my life I have travelled extensively and the thing I particularly enjoy is the discovery of everything unknown. I love finding and trying local food, and to date there is nothing I have not eaten. There have been some pretty strange things sometimes in my travels through Asia or Africa, but I always figure that if the locals can eat it and live, then so can I. As far as language is concerned, that is not a huge problem either as together with my wife we cover fluently English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Italian, and can get by in Japanese and some Arabic. You also get a knack for communicating in English with locals that don't necessarily speak it like in China or other Chinese speaking countries.
I got used to moving around in some foreign places very early on, and have grown up a bit all over the world. I am Swedish, but the place in the world that I feel the most like a stranger is actually Sweden. So, the whole world adventure part of a trip like this is totally within my comfort zone.
My biggest problem is my obvious lack of mechanical skills. I have friends that have done some pretty adventurous rides, and there will always come a moment when something brakes down in a remote place, and I really don't think I would be able to fix it. More than anything else, this would be my main concern before setting off on such a trip, so the best would be to do it together with somebody who is a bit more mechanically inclined than myself.