I'm belgian after all ...

Flo heiss sent me a very nice one

radio silence ....

is not a good thing in life ... it's been to quiet the last two weeks but i can blame the work for that and the fact we are franticaly trying to finish off riens his room....

somebody one day will have to tell me how to find the right balance in life between work and dreams ... i feel been sucked into my old pattern again of focussing really hard on work and loosing a bit the perspective i loved so much when i was travelling with my bike through Morocco ... feels now like a distant thing ....

getting used to the instant world is not a thing that you can do in a sec, feels like i need some course in fast reading and response .... i've put the bar quite high in wanting to be up to speed in two or three weeks, but reality is that it just takes a bit longer since the ratio amount of information and time is not fit into a 24 hour day ...

i rest assured, everybody told me that i should take the time to get my head around the initial phase since everything you take time for now is won in the long run .....

taking time now to say hi and tell you all that i still miss the old gang ...

happy travels

still have sand in my shoes

feels in a way already so long ago that i was on my trip, but still it is echoing in my head ... i still smell the morocan wood fires, taste the tagine, feel my heartbeat on the track ....

i changed the map in the living room for the one from Asia, but still need to make up my mind on where to go. Ulan Bator to Beijing seems like a nice challenge :-)

happy travels my friends

a secret reminder of your biking trip

My first days ....

well it's back to the real world .. today my first day at Microsoft and had my first part of the introduction. it's a bit strange of mving from a state where you only think about what destination to pick for tomorrow to what marketing plans to set-up for the coming year ...

all in all it feels good to be back into the IT industry with all it's buzz and excitement of technology. it will take some time from me to get my head around the new challenge, so you can imagine i'm really nervous to life up to the expectations ... but i feel i can count on a lot of people to help me achieve it ...

on the other hand in the back of my mind i can not stop thinking about the adventure i had and already feel the urge to start planning for the next trip ..

This is it . . .

The figures speak for themselves . . . I'm leaving all this behind to start a more normal life tomorrow : my first working day . . . Feel like a teenager again . :)

After the clean up . . .

Still adjusting to be in our own house . . . Checked my mails and snail mail : oh yes i'm back to reality with a bang . . . I promised myself to write a bit more about the Morocco experience for myself to make sure i do not forget the details . . .

Before clean up . . .

Home . . Home . . .

Taking my adventure to dream land . . . I dreamt about this trip for more than half a year . . . And i made it . . . Now tomorrow will be the start of something new, built upon what i experienced before . . . Happy travels and like they say in Morocco: inshallah . . . Toon

We received an offer . .

My bike and i received an offer to play in a movie . . . Spongebob squarepants the motorcycle story . . . My body and especially feet and hands feel like sponges . . . My butt is rather square and the motorcycle is obvious . . .

France is welcoming us . .

With some heavy rains . . . As if they want to wash away my Morocco experience . . . But i still have sand in my shoes to remind me of all small things i experienced . . .

Brothers in arms . . .

Also coming back from Morocco

These guys are coming back from Morocco as well . .

1200 renault 4 driven by students spend 10 days in Morocco for a humanitarian rallye . . . Nice guys and seems view had a lot of fun . . .

The change . . .

Olivetrees nicely lined up as soldiers for inspection, no more mules but tractors doing the labor, farms instead of shelters, roads with luxury 4x4's that never saw anything remotely close to a trail . . . . Yes i'm in europe again and it shows . . . . Haven't figured out what i like most . . .

Unfortunately i have no space left in my bags

On my way to Granada to change my tires . . . Now i really feel i'm going home . . .

From trail to track :) .

Taking a little walk in sebta . . . Just walking without being approached :) . . .

In the spanish part of africa . . .

Passed the frontier without paying one dirham of bribery :) . . . Just gmt the hang of it and now i'm leaving . .

Saying goodbye to Morocco

From the beaches near sebta . . . Strange to leave behind but also happy to get into spain . . . . I will leave a piece of me here to be picked up later on some other travels . . .