Ureka by Graham Field

U-Turn if I want to, is that what I should do ?

The words rang a distant bell.  I can’t decide if turing suggests a rebellious failure or submissive success, not that it matters.  With my determined aspirations I’d overcome the challenges of terrain, bureacracy, navigation and heat as I rode to the Caspian Sea; it was just that illusive satisfaction  that I couldn’t find.

If all my experience had taught me one thing, I was buggered if I knew what that was.  I has all the usual ingredients, my trusty KLR, a little bit of money, plenty of time and lots of new countries to ride through.  I transited Bulgaria resisting its long-stay temptations, took an excurions into humbling Iraq, then wound on up through the wild surprises of eastern Turkey on the way to Georgia.  In Azerbaijan I turned the plan and the map around.  It wasn’t the journey that took a different direction, everything changed..........

If there is one thing I have learnt on the road it’s that I never stop learning from the road.  Some things are not meant to be and others are; the trick is finding the line between desire and contentment, then riding it.