The 10th of April marked the end of my bicycle touring trip from Mexico to Argentina. I have made it as far as Guatemala! What made me end? Was bicycle touring not made for me? Did I choose the wrong travel partner?
This blog entry as it has been for a long time – with all it’s personal tragedy and drama – was by far the most successful blogpost I have ever written in terms of people who read it.
Lately I read a very interesting paragraph in a book stating that humanity gravitates towards bad and dramatic news instead of the good and positive stuff. Tells us something about ourselves, doesn’t it?!
A quick end to my bicycle touring trip
My bicycle touring trip ended on the 10th of April due to private circumstances. To answer the initial questions and male a long story short: I had picked the wrong travel partner. Things didn’t work out between us as so often in life.
In the situation I was in with only basic Spanish language skills, no profound knowledge about how to fix a bike by myself and most of all not the right attitude cycling on by myself was not an option for me.
The way back home
Even if I knew what happened on the 10th of April was finally good what happened had hurt me a lot.
The next day I flew home. Sitting in the airplane I felt like having a dark cloud hanging around me. I was operating on travel autopilot. Hardly I could manage to talk to some nice American men while waiting for the boarding to start. They were fishing and had to pay a second flight home because they messed up with the flight time. I could have easily provided a better horror story about unnecessary costs and messed up travels…!
My flight went via Houston Texas where I had only one and a half hours for changing planes. Thankfully no time to think! I made my way through immigration and customs and was once again impressed by the American way of control (I like it!). For me it was no problem to get through and just in time I arrived at the next gate for boarding my flight to Frankfurt. 10 more hours full with painful memories eventually interrupted by some hours of bad sleep.
I thought back about our trip for picking up the bicycle in England, our flight together to Cancun, our time on Holbox island and cycling through the Yucatan peninsula. It was all for nothing.
The future
It is hard to think about a future at all.
More than all memories and all disappointment about a bicycle touring trip that ended way too early there’s one question that will keep me awake for many nights from now on:
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I am sorry for your loss. Perhaps not for the loss of this particular individual in your life, but for the loss of the dream of what you hoped the relationship and adventure would be. Let yourself grieve. When you are ready to think about what your next step will be, dream BIG! You have all options open. All the best to you.
Noreen, thank you very much for your kind words. It’s all a part of life, isn’t it? Maybe after the first shock is over I can dream BIG again… Thank you.
Atleast its over! Too bad you didnt explore Xela, its a really cool town. And if you would have hiked Tajumulco or Santa Marie you would have been the only ones on the volcano! Hope all works out for you
Thank you Steve. Yes, I really feel sorry for all the beautiful places I missed out in Central America. It wasn‘t meant to be this time. But who knows? I might come back one day.
I am a soloist and have always dreamed of having a partner that loved adventure. I watched his videos and saw the way you looked at him, I knew you were enamered. I am shocked to find out about your departure. I hope you are not jaded and find your true partner.
Hi Yoyo, I guess in many ways it is better to be solo. For now I definitely buried every hope of having a partner to share my adventures. There was too much disappointment in it for me.
But that happened to me and it hopefully never happens to you like that.