The flight of «Daring»
(In Miquel Silvestre path for the planet we had skipped the post flight to North America. Readers will forgive this throwback demos, but we like to have your trip completely)
While not have floats BMW, will be impossible to complete a round the world motorcycle without taking two or three aircraft to overcome those little accidents called oceans. Having reached Manila jumping from island to island, I have to catch a flight for the third time this Route Forgotten Explorers. It is the only way to overcome the Pacific, this immense pile of sea Núñez de Balboa discovered in 1513 after crossing a pure egg the Isthmus of Panama. My destination, Vancouver, Canadian town opposite the island of the same name, rich in stories of forgotten Spanish explorers.
In like Volare. I hate planes, aerodromes, airlines and their procedures
In like Volare. I hate planes, aerodromes, airlines and their procedures. It is not fear but rebellion against irritants organized channels of mass consumption and mass transit. Airports are factories inconveniences and delays. I hate undergo security checks, I do not like the metal detector arches, feel animosity for queues, waiting and those long hours that are wasted with a boarding pass in hand and staring into the monitor output.
Air freight is faster, but is usually more expensive. Sometimes expensive, as in the Philippines. We piden 4.500 U.S. dollars. I reject this option uneconomical. Maritime transport means about 1350, I can pay through the sponsorship of Salami SA, meat products a company that strongly supports the motorcycling world and has sponsored people like Dakar racer José María García, the TT driver Juan Maeso, traveler in 125 Fernando Retor or globetrotting unparalleled Alicia Sornosa.
On the appointed day the bike wash well to meet Canadian safety standards and hygiene
On the appointed day the bike wash well to meet Canadian standards of safety and hygiene and pack the bike in a wooden box, write your name on the side. "I am Bold". I named in honor of one of the corvettes Alejandro Malaspina Expedition, who in the late eighteenth century, the company undertook to visit the Spanish Crown possessions that had scattered across the planet.
After leaving the sealed package and ready to ship, I go to the airport. When I go into the booth, I see that I will share space with a lady in her sixties. Oh dear, never touches hottie. Arellano and as I took off, beginning to ask for this mouth that God has given me and wines and beers are falling.
Turn off the light as chicken farms. Everyone shut up and sleep. It's a way to combat jet lag. Traveling east, will land before the time that took off. Effect shown for the first time in the trip when Elcano 1523 llegarón to Cape Verde, off the coast of Africa, and 18 survivors of that terrible ordeal asked what day it was. The Portuguese were told that Thursday when shipped for was Wednesday according to Pigafetta daily punctilious. Also for me the time has become elastic and unreal as I wander the room clear Vancouver International Airport without knowing what time of day is. Is it about jet lag and hangover, you lose all sense of spatiotemporal location.
But no wonder lasts forever. While the tape moves me without walking, behold suddenly all this cleaning and modernity and I realize that, in fact, I left behind Asia, its chaos and overcrowding. I spent five months there and I was used. Now at last I am aware that my American adventure begins and still not know my place in this new world of indifference neat.
