Meeting Strangers, Departing Friends...

As anyone knows who has travelled abroad and stayed off the resorts and big hotels, part of the whole experience is meeting new people. The ability to strike a conversation with someone, who is only common to you by the fact that you are both fish out of water, is quite easy.

You see here, in lands abroad, we´re all foreign and that is an instant pass to ask "How´s it going?" or "Where you from?" and these simple question can often lead to great friendships. Nicola and I have been very fotunate to meet some great people on our journey, but like all things on the road they must come to an end when it is time to move on. When the time comes to say our goodbyes, unlike the goodbyes to long time friends at home, these departures are with road friends and we never truly know where our paths go or if they will cross again.
The one thing we do know is that it hapened once and could very well happen again...

"What is that feeling when you´re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?-it´s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it´s good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
Excerpt from "On the road" by Jack Kerouac