Motorcycle Explorer February 2015 Issue 4 | Page 16

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nyway, accessorized and secured it’s easy to forget that adventure comes with a side
order of danger; real, painful, debilitation and occasionally fatal danger. Dreams end
prematurely, risks are inherent, and perhaps the manufactures who use buzz word branding,
distort the reality with pictures of fantasy that, although achievable come at a cost. We endure
killer traffic, bad roads, we get cold, wet, hungry, and deal with corrupt officials, border delays
and all the other things that the ‘adventurer’ has to face to get to that rewarding, blazing fire by
the river bank under a starry sky.
The reward of adventure