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last trip prep

05. May 2008 | en

well, it’s been some time since my last entry and lots has gone on…we left berlin on tuesday and went to Dominik’s family country house. the plan was to spend the last few days relaxing in the country taking care of the last details before the big departure….it was perfect!! Dominik’s father Octavo was a wonderful host, lending us all the tools we needed and filling us with good food and wine, we were basically spoiled the last week before leaving…maybe it was too nice!!
the work on the bikes was supposed to be simple, but that never turns out to be the case….i had to replace my muffler which would have been a simple task had there not been a screw broken off in the muffler where the sheild attached!#x%x$’####+*what could have taken one hour turned into all day, drilling out the screw only to find that the reason it was broken was because it seemed to have been cold welded!!!!! anyway….nothing is easy, especially if you think that it should have been….the next task was to find a way to use the rack that the plastic cases had been attached to for the aluminum cases, that turned out to be a piece of cake! next was to wire in the lighter socket so we could plug in battery chargers, also pretty easy, except finding parts proved to be the difficulty and so we had to improvise, in the end it worked out great. the last prep work was patching all the holes in the cases and installing locks on the lids.
so then the day of reckoning….actually packing all the crap on the bikes, this huge pile of supplies and clothing had to fit into small little cases and a bag, oh the task was daunting and i was skeptical, but believe it or not we fit everything on the bikes with room to spare….well, to say ‘room to spare’ is a bit optimistic because, now that we have had one night on the road we realize there are some things we still need, but i’m jumping ahead!!!
let me backtrak, so cudos to Dominik, and many thanks for the coffee breaks and home made sweets that he prepared everyday, and also the the fantastic meals that we ate each evening he was really cool to support us in that way!! Thank You Dominik!....
our last night in Barsikow was a celebration with friends from berlin, Johana-Sophie, Henrieta, and Rene came to join us for a dinner of american style hamburgers with cucumber salad and tomato salad, what a feast!!!!
let me just also say that the weather was astounding, you wouldn’t have believed we were in germany, sunny skies and warm temp.
again i must back up just a bit, and tell you of my first real off road riding….so joscha and i head off into the country, really just down the road because we are already in the country, but anyway, we hit a dirt road and take a couple of turns and come to a massive mud puddle. now mind you, this is all new to me, and on the road to this point i had gone into a tiny little puddle which nearly threw me to the ground, so i’m looking at joscha( he has this gleam in his eye) he’s happy as though he has been waiting for this moment, and i’m thinking ‘you’ve got to be kidding’ or ‘are you completely nuts’ and he says ‘the secret is hit it in second gear, not to fast, don’t slow down, let the bike find it’s course and don’t fight it, let the bike swim through it!’ yeah…. i’m thinking i’m going to swim and it won’t be thru anything….you want to go first?.........no, i’ll watch first thanks…...........so he makes it thru and fish tails at the far end, i’m not feeling so confident but what the fuck, just do it as they say…..so, I DID IT, heart pounding out of my chest and all that adrenaline rush, wow, cool!!!!we did it twice more!!! then we hit an enduro trak, i liked the puddle better….enough said.
so, it’s day of departure, another beautiful day, i’m feeling tense and nervous, i’m quiet and it’s noticeable, Joscha gets some bad news, the credit card that he has been waiting on to take with him on the trip was stolen and the thief has withdrawn 4000.00 euro from his account, so the tension is cuttable but we endure and finely get underway at about 1pm.
riding on the bike is a sublime experience, you are totally alone with your thoughts and yet you have to say sharp as to what is going on around you, because one false move and ….well lets not dwell on bad things. the smells of the world are your company when you ride, i smell everything, flowers, trees,grass, pig shit, and lets not forget diesel!!
the german countryside is beautiful, lush and green, we pass thru so may quaint little farming towns, each vary charming, oh the winding roads, this is motorcyling.
we crossed the Elbe river by ferry. it was a pendulum, anchored up stream and directed by rudder, cool!!!

Tags: barsikow Germany
Map: N 52° 84.894 E 12° 54.054

Created at: 05. May 2008

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