December 2011
5 posts
two things i will keep close as we all roll into a...
1) the reverential hush that every poetic sunset, decorated night sky and morning birdsong evokes. the day i cease to wonder is the day they bury me. 2) the rigorous honesty and open-heartedness of friends who are more family than they’ll ever know. 2012, lets see you stride in with all the bold swagger of a proud mountain range.
"i looked into the eyes of the world and saw...
for most of dec 2011, i lived out of motorcycle panniers, tracing a winding, varied road across the face of thailand, crossing shortly into myanmar. here are excerpts from short correspondences with T along the way; these are probably the best and most raw logs of the experience:
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12 dec we rolled into chiangmai by lunch today. weather and traffic have been kind. went straight from...
3 years in the dreaming and 6 months in the planning - tonight at 2200hrs we ride for northern thailand. nearly 8000km, but still only a baby step.
the open road - i will always romanticize it out of proportion, its rough-tough spontaneity, those unreachable horizons, and that machine-and-two-wheels smell of freedom. above all, that sense of an overwhelmingly larger world.
this time i’ve...
2 dec is for those whom we cannot bring back. although we see their faces in the most silent of constellations, and whisper their names into the loudest of winds, they remain memories on the other side of the door.
i’m right here, doing the living for you gabs.
November 2011
22 posts
