HAS INTERNET
STERILE?
Old Skool travller
Graham Field asks
the question
I
’ve been wondering on this trip, should
going off on an overland motorcycle journey
be easy? Should it be challenging? Should you
discover unknown abilities, find your
limitations? Grow, learn, experience, gain
knowledge, wisdom and if so how do you get
those qualities? I'm seemingly old school,
that’s the knowledge I’ve gained on this ride, I
appear to be making it deliberately hard for
myself. It must be my unwillingness to do
research on forums, it’s all out there, where to
stay, what roads to ride to get there, and what
to see on the way, border procedures, maps
and layouts.
I met a German 4x4 at the bottom of Mexico
whilst eating bbq chicken for breakfast from a
road side vendor (I’m sure I ordered eggs,
clearly the vendors’ Spanish was worse than
mine). The occupants of the 4x4 had driven
down to the Guatemalan border, sized it up
and decided to do more research and wait
until tomorrow to cross. I continued on into a
Sunday afternoon, and what do you know? An
open border that caters for the people
crossing, simple, straight forward and
efficient. The only delay was the fact a tourist
bus had just spewed a load of lost looking gap
year backpackers into the immigration office
just as I was putting my bike on the side stand.
Like turtles with tumours they bumped their
way around the