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Photo by Alessio Corradini, on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, of two locals

I haven't been everywhere...
but it's on my list!


Photo by Alessio Corradini,
on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia,
of two locals



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Emmet .. er non-emmet?


Emmet fraid , wouldn’t insult the locals by pretending to be ‘a local’..!! I take it by your comment you are a ‘none emmet’ Keith..??


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Emmet fraid
Well you can't help that!


Me? I'm as Cornish as they d'make 'em.

Always start to get a bit nervous up pass Bodmin. Dunno why I'm 'ere on this forum really!
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Well you can't help that!


Me? I'm as Cornish as they d'make 'em.

Always start to get a bit nervous up pass Bodmin. Dunno why I'm 'ere on this forum really!


......”errr because you I intend to go global travelling of course”...!!! You can do it, deep breath......


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Good info, plan-save-hit the road
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it is wonderfull to read all this easy planning, makes you somehow wanna start poacking right now, and then you realise , almost 90percent of planners, rtw riders and people posting, are uk, us , europe some sorted countries, people being payed well for their knowledge , having some nice free strong passports, renting whatever they can and then heading out, hmmm what about the rest of us from some smaller crappier placies, where you have average salary of 250 till 350 eur, live with odl folks, can get a loan, pay the bike for 10 years , and then just head in and out for some short trips ? nobody know your country, no papers can be done freely and easily, most of the visa PIA to obtain .
Lets get some topic going on for that how to ?
Now i am a world traveler by any means , dont care as long as i move, foot, bike, motorbike, car, plain, train, really dont care, been struggling to do that rather successful in the past 15 years, but i always see same , need to work illegal, whatever you do, whenever you apply for a job thats it your passport get rejected for some USA or UK one, and so on and so on......
for me its funny to read these topics a bit, no offence meant, but by the time i was adult i went to see whole Europe, and changed 2 passports, by getting in surround countries for visa for every single EU place, waiting and non sleeping in lines for days, getting rejected repeating progress and so on, because we where scary war Yugoslavs at the time....bs.....and after all that i listen to my friends, yeah i just by ticket go somewhere work a bit at restaurant continue wherever, for f sake man, i want that , then i wouldnt need any planning or sorting out, just head and work along the route , the cost of that is always waaaay cheaper than what it is in our heads , and we as a human beings are design to survive and fight, every time you get your ass in some "cosy and safe environment " you start to get weak and soft and harder to move ......you all are one crazy lucky lot, so stop thinking and overthinking just go, mile by mile , expand and prolong, and make a plan by the time you are wrinkly and old and dead see whatever you wanted to see .
at least when you get back home you can find a job, where i am good luck you are done begging living with parents or 200euro waiter thats it..............
Expectations are something you can rely on, i cant and i still do it ,so as bob marley says get up stand up and hit the road

now this all makes no sense but i needed a valve , i was raised to grab the life by horns and struggle it and fight it , but if you ever feel in doubt about cost , issues, problems whatever , there is a bit of my story to get you going, since it can be done for some way easier then for other, yet others do it so can you, it will cost you way less then us by any means
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very well spoken mate.

Thanks for your comment.
You hit the nail well on the head.

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