TRAVERSE Issue 17 - April 2020 | Page 70

fusion and it becomes the entrée, the only one available, and it doesn’t go down too well. IT is where we are. There are few to talk to on the matter. There is little info out there. You can find folks for sure and every conversation is helpful. But we would like to make you aware that IT is real. There’s little point in hopelessly moping about. We’re in a constant process of designing our next journey, our path is still to cross the wilds; it is our passion, our focus. The IT is worth the lifestyle. It would’ve been awesome to have anticipated the IT, to be able to navigate and sew in more positivity had we not had to flush it out into the light to see what IT was before we could begin contending with IT. In the interest of awareness, I’ll say to all doers, and those dreaming of doing, that no matter what you and I do there will always be unforeseen challenges. It’s what adventure is. Down past the skin and ribs we find the heart of the matter and sometimes it hurts to get there. As adventurers we must realise that the heart is equally wild. It is a ride; a bucking, twisting, snorting, wild ride. When we think we’ve figured it out, that’s when the real danger begins. The quest of challenging everything you've ever un- derstood, flipping the lives of you and your family upside down and literally throttling into the most terrifying and valuable experience of your life and coming to the other side, victorious, is an epic experience. Finding out however that the 'real' world has no real- istically suitable place for you anymore, nor you for it, is the oddest of homecoming. We maintain that there is always a way and that by sharing our discoveries we can help make finding IT a little easier for you. We can be found at IT, and we’d like to see IT become topic of mainstream conversation. In so many ways, life is like riding; a series of lines to pick and stick to in order to get on through. It’s nice to get a little heads up to the challenges, to the ‘funky little boulder on the left as you come around the juniper just ahead’. IT is just that, a funky little boulder. It’s no big deal, but if you hit it wrong, it can become a big deal … but I guess, we just deal with IT … BJ Billy and his family have spent the past two years travelling the United States by motorcycle; a KTM 690 Enduro R, a Yamaha XT250 and a Honda CRF250L. They say the've outrun the odds and made it work, they want to show you how - storymotoadv.com TRAVERSE 70