
23 Jan 2022
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Originally Posted by backofbeyond
Many thanks for mentioning that. I looked it up and have just spent the whole of my Saturday evening (and more of a bottle of gin than I realised) reading all 27 pages of it. Absolutely fascinating and really well written. I was with him in a kind of "I could do that on my small bike' sort of way until he hit Tajikistan. Then it started getting tough. And that ride back through Russia ...
What comes across though is the generosity of strangers. Again and again he was helped out by people who put themselves out for no reward. I've been on the receiving end of that kind of generosity myself and have been so grateful for their help. Each time it happens you think it's a one off but from his report it comes across more as the default human response. We - the West - seem to be the oddballs.
A perfect example of what ADVRider is so good at
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Can you post up a link please.
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