a microcosm of social experience, of the community
they were in, the people, the present day.
“Funnily enough when we were away we were ac-
tually free, because we didn’t know anything about
terrorism, we didn’t know anything about anything
in Europe, so every place we went felt quite safe,”
they both agreed.
“The fact that we were riding for ninety days, we
didn’t know what was in the news, we didn’t know
what was happening with politics,” Dennis contin-
ued.
“We didn’t even know that the Olympic games
were on until we just saw something on a television.
So that was great to just be free from all of that.
“We take it for granted I think, in our day-to-day
lives, but it actually kind of influences your thinking
a lot and you probably react differently to the way
you would if you’re completely free from those sorts
of things.”
Two people, riding alone, together, forms a bond
and often the pair found themselves laughing about
different things for the same reason, it became a spe-
cial time linked only by the intercom they were com-
municating with.
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