Motorcycle Explorer December 2014 Issue 3 | Page 205
S
o, one day a rider finds himself in Rwanda, Armenia, Iraq, a place with a world recognised
name for a solitary reason.
The status update that says ‘this is the area that was flooded 3 years ago, here is the memorial’,
reminds informs, its responsible, useful, and I have so much more respect for it.
I remember getting perspective on it all when I saw this
W
hen I wrote my last book it was
inevitable that I referred to Wikipedia to make
sure I had my facts right and to confirm dates.
I’m ashamed to say there were several places I
visited that I learned more about when I was
back home that I did when I was there. In future
I'm using my internet connection to Wikipedia
the place names on the sign posts that are to
come, not to post a picture of my lunch.
Explor
is the name of this magazine, there aren’t many
places that haven’t been found already, we
were all born too late to have ‘explorer’ as a job
title, but we can explore beyond our own
limited knowledge, discover the facts and
inform. Wikipedia is the methadone to get off
of facebook. When I gave up smoking rollups I
had to find something else to do with my hands
in self-conscious situations, thankfully phones
came along.
Imagine riding round a place and changing your
view from status updates to discovering the
state of the place you are in. Explore where you
are. Report back to MEM perhaps we’ll print
your findings.
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