Motorcycle Explorer June 2015 Issue 6 | Page 74

So you've gone around the world and seen the sights, submerged in new cultures and come back ... now what? This is the answer no one tells you. When dreams become memories... the aftermath of adventure A fter a lifetime of dreaming, ten years of planning and five years religiously saving money and selling everything that wasn’t absolutely essential to our journey, we’ve finally completed a full circle of this magnificent planet and returned home to a hero’s welcome in Ratsville. We’ve got a million photographs on our laptop and a thousand followers on Twitter, plans for a bestselling book in our head and the square root of bugger-all in our bank account. So, after the homecoming cake’s been eaten and the bunting taken down, what the hell are we goi