In retrospect

The picture on the left where taken after my polish the bike meditation. I reckon the bike looks pretty good considering where it has been over the last three months.

I decided to take this next few days to adjust to not being on the road. I have discovered on this trip that I like to keep moving, rest is rust as an old mate of my dad used to say.

Its been 25 years since I did my last big trip, as many know I rode a push bike from Vancover to LA it took me four weeks and I travelled aprox 3000 km. I was looking at my old Passport and I returned from that trip on the 4th of may 1985. I seemed like it was only yesterday how quickly the years go by. Well I am so glad I did that trip and I am proud of my achievement and this trip was an achievement as well.

Interestingly enough I probably am the first person in the world to cover the distance I have on this trip in a Can-AM Spyder so I have made a first...

Yesterday i practised a technique that I learned from a monk, it's called the Zen of motor bike polishing, one can adapt this technique to any mundane situation, for example the Zen of Mowing the lawn.

The technique involves bringing the attention to the task in hand by focusing fully and when the mind wanders you guide it gently back to the task.

Our mind then becomes like the sky clear and infinite for me the moments of clarity are very fleeting, however the practice does help me focus.
I needed to find some peace as I was over focusing on the negative things that happened on the trip.

In reality the bad things would have only made up 1 percent of the whole picture and only after letting it play on my mind did it become overwhelming.
So now I am focusing on the other 99 percent that were positive, sometimes I think to much so some focused meditation is good to slow the monkey chatter of the mind.

I will continue writing this blog for the next few weeks as a retrospect of the trip

Well Until Tomorrow Night
Bye