Why ?

I do not know myself.

1) Do I want to test myself? If I can live "on the road" alone. For some "longer" time ?

2) Do I want to escape from something ?

3) Do I want to experience something ?

1) Yes, to some degree. My plan is to spend quit some time on the road in southern Europe the comming vinters. When the season is over in Sweden, And my  dream is to travel on  MC in South America. I want to test myself, the equipment and the ways of travelling and living in small steps. Incremental as we developers says. So a tour from Sweden på Portugal is a decent start. But the pure driving is not the main goal. It more the living alne on teh road anc check the equipment. (Even most of it has been used already. On shorter trips)

2) Probably yes to some degree. I am unemployed at the moment. And I will retire next spring. No work and no family any more. And the relation with the woman that I planned to spend the rest of my life together with, did not work out as expected. I have a good house with a nice garden and a very good garage. So I could take it easy. Garden and MC in the (short Swedish summer). Projects in the garage during winter. As long as I can. But is it all that I want ? And soon it will be to late to change life. No, I do not want to do "only" this. I want to change before it is to late.

Also in shorter time perspective, there is somtehing to escape from. Last 3 years I have been very busy with the house, garden, garage and... Due to what happened before that, and the plans for future. All the time I see things that needs to be done. And I can't relax. I need to fix that and that first. And then relax. But "then" never comes. For short brakes, I take by bike outin the nature. Make a firm. Boil coffee and sleep over night. ( I attach some nice photos) But then it is back to normal again. To get a real break, I just have to leave home.

3) Yes. Connected to number 2. I am in the phase of my life were you start to realize that time is limited. And you never know when things change. So I want to use the time to travel, experience things. Collect memories. That I can keep forever. Things can be taken away. Money dissapear. But memories will last. As long as the mind works. Many years in my life have been very hard. I have been fighting and struggling. Now it is time to get something else. 

So I would say yes to all 3 questions. But I do not know. And I do not know how I will react to this type of travelling. I will have a lot of time to think. And then the mind goes around. And it can be hard. It was so long time since I was on a long MC tour last time. And at that time, I travelled together with the women that I have given my heart.  We shared everything, and did everything together. This time will be a new experince. But if I do not try. I will never know. And I would regret that I did not try. But if I try and it does not work out. I will not regret anything. I will be happy that I tested. And that I know that it did not work.