ROYAL ENFIELD Himalayan

SOMETIMES YOU ARE riding along, and you just aren’t there. Not the ‘there’ in the domestic sense. You find yourself in another place, another country, another time. I do that a lot on boring freeway rides, getting away from the world I live in. Motorcycling, especially on adventure-style bikes, allows you to find that nirvana.

I was plonking along nicely at the rear of our large press group up around the Tweed Caldera (look it up, it’s a geological wonder) in northern NSW. I was on the Royal Enfield