My memoir describes my solo bike trip from Edinburgh, Scotland to Istanbul, Turkey. A trip that, although I did not know it at the time, was something I had to do to be ready for the next stage of my life. It is a tale about my bike and I but like so many other partnerships I had in the course of my life it became a story of my relationship with a friend and the trials and tribulations that we went through.
The ride is the final section of a four and a half year autobiography that I wrote to detail my life between leaving Australia on the 3rd of January 2011 and returning on the 2nd of July 2015. The journey across Europe was only 10% of my entire trip but it encapsulates so many common themes, emotions, hardships and wonders that filled my life in those years away that it represents everything in a profound way.
Happy reading, I hope you enjoy the tales you encounter along the way.