On returning from my trip in 2018 I found a very ill wife at home – she hadn’t told me!! Off to hospital we went and within a day she was in the operating theatre having a large tumour removed. Sadly she was never going to get better and I had a heart breaking end to the year looking after the person who’d been my partner and best friend for over forty years. She died in January 2019.
I’ve spent most of this year learning to live again without my ‘rock’. And with the support of some very good friends and my sister I’ve been getting there. Life will never be the same again, but my wife would have wanted me to get on with it and enjoy the years I’ve got left. She also fully supported my biking sojurns.
In June ’19 Andy and I went to France, Spain, Portugal and back through Spain and France to Blighty. Fortunately I found I could still enjoy riding on the continent with my mate – and it had a certain healing quality to it too.
Currently I’m planning our next trip – to Poland. And I’ve got a new bike to take with me there. A nearly new Triumph 800XRx. And I love being back on an explorer bike again. More soon ……………..