This picture was taken by a fellow rider who did the dream ride around the world trip. You can read the rest of his thread over here. But my favorite quote from it all.

true dat. I always said that if a Jeanie came out of a bottle and offered me a wish, it would not be for money or fame or any of that stuff. I would want to ride around the whole world.

I remember being in Kyrgyzstan. I met this very attractive Turkish woman (who turned out to be part of some sort of powerless royal family) and I rode her across that country. The Kyrgyz language is essentially old Turkish so she could get us accommodation in yurts and good food etc. The roads are not paved and the mountains are high and jagged and snow covered. The dirt roads cut back and fourth to get up them.

We woke up in a yurt one morning and ate with the nomads. We rode for a while to lake Issyk Kul. It’s the second highest lake in the world so it should be freezing, but there is volcanic activity so it’s the worlds biggest hot tub surrouned by the Tien Shen mountains. We swam there and started riding again. Some nomads rode up on horses and camels and after talking for a while, invited us to stay with them. We were riding back to thier tents and I’m looking at the view and I’m thinking. “I’ve been riding for well over a year, I’m in Kyrgystan on my beloved GS, the view is breathtaking, the road is perfect, the sun is shinning, I’m going to sleep in a yurt with Kyrgyz nomads tonight and there’s a freaking Turkish princess on the back of my bike.

What was missing from that picture? Did I leave anything out? Should there be TWO princesses? I dunno man. There are plenty of snapshots like that that pop into my head when I’m in the middle of doing something like tracking a package for a customer or something.

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