Around and Back: a year and a day on the road

The sun was shining when I stopped my motorbike by an old tractor in rural Norway. 15 years earlier, I had worked on a machine just like it for my brother-in-law and I was looking forward to telling him about it at the kitchen table one evening in the future. At the same moment I remembered what I had seen and tried in Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France and England. My travelogue was getting too long for me to tell it over a single cup of tea. I was on my way to the northernmost tip of Norway, back south through Finland and to Ireland and it dawned on me that if I wanted to share this experience with others, I would have to write a book.

Many things happened to me when I left my girlfriend, my family, my job, my life....and ventured out in pursuit of my dream. Beautiful vistas, a broken guitar, a Buddhist monastery, new buddies, motorcycles and a chance to hone my skill as an artist are all a part of this story that spans a year in my life and gave me a chance to see myself in a whole new way.