Travelling Light 05/16/2010

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I guess, for me, Motorbike touring could be described as Travelling Light.  You can’t take much with you, you can go anywhere and meet people along the way, and leave the world and any troubles behind. No-one describes these feelings and emotions better for me than the masterful Leonard Cohen:

I’m travelling light
So Au Revoir
I’ll miss my heart
And my guitar

It’s lovely here
So far away
I couldn’t take
Another day

The songs won’t come
But if they did
I’d go back home
So God forbid

I guess I’m just
Somebody who
Has given up
On me and you

I’m not alone
I’ve met a few
Who were travelling
Travelling light

While I’m sure Mr Cohen was not thinking about the free wheeling spirit of the open road and touring on the back of a motorbike, the raw emotion in the text above does draw direct comparison to those I have felt before. 

Escaping the real world to travel light. For me I’ve left things behind to enable me to go – never a guitar – I have no musical talent – more so for me it might be my mobile phone or my large screen TV, but none-the-less it’s about escaping away from what makes me comfortable to challenge my own emotions at different times. The ending of a relationship or a crap week at work have all been triggers to leave the comfort of home to travel light. 

It’s lovely here so far away, I couldn’t take another day – exactly the pressure that has pushed me to hop on the bike and discover something new, ‘so far away’. So far away not only in distance, but removed from all that was going on back in the city – that broken heart (again), or that bad customer meeting on Thursday morning. 
 
Travelling light – the perfect way to describe the way to escape the world, and troubles and really question and discover who you are.

 

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