Thursday, October 1, 2009

New Love and second chances


Howdy everyone ,

well where to start really, probably best to give you the background ,
about 7 years ago when I was living in China quite by accident I met
the love of my life - she was a American who had also found herself in
China - anyway it was kind of love at first sight and we were pretty
much inseparable as we traveled through China, and central Asia and
turkey and Europe over 6 months - we had this fantastic time but
inexplicably when we got to Rome we went our separate ways and in
truth we have never seen each other since .........i guess I have kind
of tortured myself for the past 7 years wondering why I would give up
such a good thing and occasionally even my Dad tells me I should have
bought her home ...

Anyway , most people don't even get one chance at true love, however
once again really when i wasn't looking for it I'm in love again --
Funnily enough when met on the Internet when i was doing research for
my bike trip - she is from china but her parents are American - she
lives in NYC so we decided to meet up while i was there, --- and of
course my first impression was wow!!! she is a bit younger than me--
but - I really wanted to spend more time with her so with nothing to
lose invited her on our cycle trip - And she said YES, so with any
fledgling love i asked Andy and Wei Ling to not mention anything on
their blogs cause I just wanted to see how things would go , we said
that we would go to Austin ( Texas) together and reevaluate things
from there....

So of course things are going great- everyday from NYC I have felt
like I am flying on a little soft cloud, and you just know it is love
when you can't get the Karen Carpenter song " close to you" out of
your head for the past 2000 miles.

So anyway the big news-- we are going the whole way to Rio de janero
together and this time I promise I am older and wiser and will bring
her back home . Both Andy and Wei Ling have seen the change in me and
of course they really like Allant as well so they wouldn't have it
any other way. I've attached some photos as well and of course Allant
is in her favorite leather and rubber outfit ( wow!!) come to think of
it maybe the married men shouldn't be looking at these photos.- and i
just want to encourage anyone who hasn't found that special someone
yet to not lose hope and to take chances- you never know what could
happen. Even though I gave up my GT slipstream ( probably the best
bike I ever owned) in Rome i never gave up hope of finding another.


Andy and Allant








Top photo:, me and allant
bottom: Allant all loaded down

2 comments:

  1. Andy you bastard! You had me cursing your name for a while there!! I couldn't believe you would keep such secrets from me.

    Now all is clear and it makes much more sense- she is the perfect female for you.

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  2. You had me going there for a while. I didn't get it until I saw the photos. Very funny and very clever.

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