just travel on no matter how.

may I just throw in a different aspect....

Question is "what if you can't ride a bike any more, but don't want to give up travelling"

the thing is for instant, that I my self have been quite active in the HU community for years, attending to HU-meetings, holding presentations and workshops, helping out and hosting other HU members, writing posts and so... in short enjoyed it a lot.... but what if some thing happened that does not allow you to ride a bike any more... like having a very nasty bike accident for instant... yep that can happened in an instant to every single one of us HUBBer and it happened frequently, some even deadly.... but not always.

As it did happened to me, about 2-1/2 year ago with spine and talus injury, with month and month of heavy pain and a good set of titanium bolts and rods stuck in my spine as new companions, certainly no good deal at all, and on top of that my beloved bike a wreck too, but I have been lucky... I still can walk again well rather limp... but so what, at lest upright

Well I'm well aware that the HU is all about two wheel travelling, or mainly at least, which is grate anyway.
Coming to my point... and may I'm not the only one who used to ride along this endless country roads and beautiful countrysides far away from home... and than this thoughts pop up as you ride along... and I'm sure many of my fellow HU members experienced this thoughts too...

"What would it be like, be here right now without a bike, with much more time and less money to spare, or at least dive in to it.. more intense than riding a bike, like walking freely all this endless roads and tiny small path you cover in no time riding along right now, what would it be like to stretch this fast moment without riding a bike with just even less equipment... just walking, walking along a path even no longer accessible for riding a bike... like travelling by foot, may with a donkey in tow, with all the burden it takes, like the way the locals do.. or have to do... like what travelling used to be hundreds of years ago.. and so on.."

So... what if... you are unable to ride a bike any more but still like to see parts of this world you haven't seen yet, and didn't end up being depressive about your circumstances and haven't give up on live staying at home all the time hidden from the world... solution... you do rather walk ... or very slow hiking with just the few essential items you may just capable to carry on your back as far your physical strength does allow you to do so again.

So yes travelling does not stop after the bike is gone, it's only a way of getting around the world but not the only mean at all, just a temporally very convenient way of travelling.
In the 70th I was hitch-hiking around Europe with a big and heavy Rucksack, in the 80th I was travelling with just a shoulder bag and lots of Zombies in my head, in the 90th a old ex-military Land Rover 4x4 was my home to get around and about, the 1st Millennium century on Bike and enjoyed it a lot... and now... well.. a small backpack with no more than 7kg in total with everything needed to carry on exploring the world ones more...
Yep hitting the roads again in tree days again, hiking for a change as far as my broken spine bolted in to place and limping foot will carry me... not a big trip, not a trip around the Globe, but out and away to places less seen, breathing it all in ones more, happy to be alive enjoying the little things by the side of the path, meeting strange people and time....

see you soon

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