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Getting Ready for Summer!

Only 4 weeks left in India before i head to Europe for the summer. I will spend most of my time in Europe promoting/taking part in my rally race the Black Sea Run and hopefully a little sight seeing. The Black Sea Run starts in Krakow Poland on July 25th!

Here is My 2010 proposed country list:

Ireland
Poland
Sweden
Spain
Portugal
England
Ukraine
Russia
Georgia
Turkey
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Slovakia
Austria
Czech Republic
Germany
USA
Columbia
Venezuela
Ecuador
Panama
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Cuba
Brazil

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All you need is love!

I’m finding the saying “All you need is love” pretty spot on. Everything in my life right now seems to be going in every other direction then I planned other then my love life. India is proving to be one interesting place to live and “try” to start a business. I will save you all from the negativity and just say that things here in India can be challenging. But like they say “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

I love the fact that when you’re in love… nothing else really matters. All those little things that make your life difficult all seem so small and pointless in the bigger picture called “life”. The fact that just thinking of someone can bring a smile to your face and tingles to your toes is proof that the human bond is what life is all about.

So other then having tons of love love love crazy love in my life, I am dealing with the normal stuff… monkeys, crows and sidecars that ride like bucking broncos that like to break your ankles!

The Sidecar Rally is taking shape… slowly but surly. I feel that the watches here in India have extra gears in them to make things seem to take years to get anything done! I am hoping to have the first race March 28th leaving from Goa with who knows how many people… it might just be me and my pet dog Loveheart.

I have finally sorted out my house. I have a maid/cook/comic that comes everyday to bring me grief and laughter. She likes to drive me crazy always asking what she can do and talks and talks but in a language I don’t understand. She sort of babbles on and on and I just say, “yes yes”.  She has planted me a garden with something in it, im not sure what it is… but it’s growing. She’s also teaching me to cook, which is kind of rough since I can’t really understand much of what she says. But that said it’s nice having her around, we make a good team. I even help her fish a dead crow out of my well.

The monkeys and crows are getting bolder and are moving in closer and closer each day. The other day I woke up to a monkey sitting on my motorcycle. The crows better watch out because in a few days I going to head into town and get some sort of gun, most likely only an air rifle… but I’ll take something bigger if they’ll give it to me.

I’m used to writing about traveling and taking photos, but right now I’m not doing either. I picked up my camera yesterday for the first time in a while. I will be heading to northern India next week for business so I might bring it to document the trip.

Here are some photos of the two things that are on my mind the most…love&sidecars!

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Looking Back

I’m not sure how you can possibly sum up a decade…. I’m having trouble trying to sum up this last year, let alone the last 10 years.

I started the 2000’s as a 21 year old boy fresh into the world without a passport and unaware of the world that surrounded me. I now find myself 10 years older and have been fortunate enough to have visited over 100 different countries and now have friends in almost every city in the world.

I’m not sure where I will be in 2020, but wherever it is I’m sure it will be great. Life is one amazing journey and I’m enjoying the ride!

I wish you all a Happy New Year….. 2010 is going to be one… awesome year!

Here are a few photos from New Years and also some photos from the ealry days of the Sidecar Rally!

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Work in Progess..

Here are some pictures of my new house in Goa. I am in the process of building a bamboo hut on the roof that will act as my office and party place. I am finding that getting workers to actually work here in India is like pulling teeth! Hopefully this will be done before 2020!

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Week 1 - India

People think that living in Goa India is all beaches, sand and sun…. but there’s a lot more to this place then you would think.

Once you step a few feet off the beach you enter a whole new world. A place filled with pigs running around eating trash, cows eating trash, water buffalo doing whatever they do (which I’m still not sure what that is?) monkeys jumping from tree to tree and breaking into peoples houses to steal stuff, kids playing and local man just sitting around waiting for something to happen, and for someone to do their work for them!

I kind of feel like Ace Venture the pet detective. There are all sorts of animals wondering around my house. Last night when I came home I found a white cow in my yard eating leaves off a small tree and some stray dogs sleeping on my doorstep. Today some monkeys broke into my house and trashed my kitchen and threw my brand new masala cooking spices all over the floor, not that I ever would have actually got around to using them since I don’t know how to cook. Also as I was taking a shower a water buffalo with their normal stupid face expression stared at me through the window as I took a shower. This place is starting to grow on me in a good way. Nothing here is what we would call “normal” and I love that!

In the first week of being here I have got myself a 2-bedroom house with a kitchen, Internet, cell phone, car and one nice tan! Not bad for one week!

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