Motorcycle Explorer December 2014 Issue 3 | Page 204

T
he reporters leave after the first dramatic leading chapter, the hook, the book is put down
the story unfinished, soon forgotten by everyone other than the lives directly affected. The
name of a place devastated by civil war, famine, flood, environmental disaster, tsunami, or
massacre, sticks in our head and that's how areas and sometimes entire countries have one word
associations. A classic example is when I tell people I rode to Kazakhstan, say Borat one more
time motherfucker, I dare you, I double dare you.
say Borat one more time motherfucker, I dare
you, I double dare you.
Everybody nice!
My name a .....
W
hen I crossed the border from the US to Mexico and stopped to get insurance from a
happy but sweaty man in a small hut, he asked my country of origin and his one word response to
my being English was ‘hooligan’. That's how he sums up my nationality. We Brits know as a
nation there is more to us