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Am I a traveller?

Hi, people
I live in Danmark. Got my license 7 years ago. Got me a Honda CB500 and spent the next 6 years exploiting that poor bike to go all over eastern, western and southern Europe. Alone. Long haul. That, to maximise time spent at interesting bits rather than plodding along, spending my days getting there.
I prefer using airbnb on a next-day-basis because it leaves me free and brings me into contact with the locals, rather than the hotel staff.
I've come to like mountains and rural backwaters.
I don't like aeroplanes. No sense of distance.

And now I've replaced the CB500 with a Blackbird. Not exactly what you'd use for greenlaning or dirt. But oh boy will this increase my range.
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Welcome to HU! And yes you're a traveller!
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Yup, Sounds like a traveler to me :-)
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Sounds like a lucky and smart traveler to me.
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Traveler, no doubt about that.
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Right... I got laid off, meaning the funding for anything travel-related just stopped. So much for being a traveler. At the moment I am a stranded traveler if anything.
Oh well.

Come spring, come job, come travelling. The light at the end of the tunnel isn't necessarily an oncoming train...
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Yes

Yes you are a real traveller.
That uses the bike to get to places that Airplanes and tourist busses do not reach.
Goes to places not built for tourist and that are full of tourists.
Where you see local people, nature and culture.

That is what MC travelling is all about.

Keep going
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Personally I don’t like labels, along with borders they separate people.

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