TRAVERSE Issue 09 - December 2018 | Page 42

to sleep. The house was beautiful with a huge garden where the two dogs frol- icked and to my surprise, the mother allowed them to enter the living room where they settled peacefully on the beautiful white leather sofas. The next morning, an espresso cof- fee awaited me at the breakfast table with warm croissants. Renzo came down and said goodbye, leaving for work. Giovanni and I started a tour of motorbike workshops of friends to see who could do the repairs to La Más, then we decided to take her to Ferrara, to BMW, where the chief me- chanic is my friend Alberto. So we did that. We left it with the dealer and then we went to the country house of Stienta, where its residents Veronica and Marco were absent, but I have the key so we could unload the luggage of La Más. I said goodbye to Giovanni, a young man of twenty-sev- en, a motorcycle racer who saved my life. Today we are great friends. I’m so grateful for the wonderful gesture he had for me, as well as his parents. I have been invited to Croatia to taste its wines and olive oils, and I promised to go. The surprise was even greater when I arrived at BMW in Ferrara; a new Metzeler Tourance front tyre for La Más with a note that said: "It's your birthday present, Mac ..." GM Guillermo, "Mac", is a world traveller, usu- ally aboard his bike, La Mas. He's an artist, photographer and writer, through his work wants to inspire as many as he can. See what this world traveller is about - https://www.facebook.com/MACWORK- MAC/ TRAVERSE 42