Ouh la la Tim, so sorry and so happy for you, for both reasons you gave ! You are alive and thanks to lucke ! Enjoy life and the lessons that life gives. I was ‘rapatriated’ too for knee injury, of course much less dangerous than what happened to you : So happy to be alive and to have been able and allowed to do what I did so far.
Congratulation to you and your Beast ! The most important is now, what you gonna do with your experience, what it will have given to you, as a life experience. Yuuuuhuuuuuu ! Enjoy life !
Thanks! Will have the time for a long think about what’s next; not going to be moving very far for a month or so.
You’re right, I think – you never know when life might stop, suddenly and permanently (and the accident was pretty close for me). And that definitely makes you want to make the most of your time.
Will keep you posted on the future!
Yes, yes, yes ! This is it : enjoy every second of our life here and now and let’s never forget the lesson : this is the secret of happiness !
we met on the road in December last year in NZ (near Geraldine). You probably won’t remember.
Anyway, since than I occasionally have had a look on your blog, and this time it was kind of a little shock what I read. That’s really sad but I’m also glad that you’re taking it with a lot of optimism!! With this lines I just want to wish you all the best, hope you’ll recover fast and you’ll be able to enjoy life to the full with or without the bike!!
P.S. In Febrary, another cyclist was also hit by a pickup truck in Thailand … he died and left a wife and child (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/22/chileans-round-the-world-record-cycling-quest-ends-in-death-on-thai-highway). So, cyclist, please be careful and never underestimate the traffic!! Safe travels!!
I do remember; you were heading into the hills as I was heading for town.
Enjoy the rest of your ride, and stay safe!