Friday, April 17, 2009

Riding vs Driving in Tas

Lets get this question out of the way straight off the bat: ride a motorbike or drive a car? Which is better in Tas. Having been there twice on bike & now once in car, i reckon i can comment on this one.

The advantages of a car are kind of compelling cos you can go any season and you can carry any amount of luggage & collect crap all the way like a new pair of shoes cos yours got wet & not have a problem storing it all. You can even have an esky so you can have available food! And in the rain you can just sit there as you drive thinking, gosh i'm glad i'm not out there freezin my ass off & then having to dry all my clothes by a fire at night & getting there with my luggage full of water. So there's a bunch of areas where cars trump bikes from a great height.

However I have to say i have decided that motobike is the way to go.There's 2 reasons for this.
1) No roof. Roofs, & the associated pillars that hold em up, they keep you dry, but they stop you seeing a whole @40%-50% of the landscape at all times. Yes i mean the sky. Cos the sky there is massive. Like the mountains are massive and the trees are massive. You need the tops of the trees and the sky in your landscape. Sorry, u can't have them if u in a car, esp a small car.
2) On a bike you're Alone. Even if you travel with 100 other bikes, or a pillion, while you're riding inside your helmet you are alone & what u see goes in your brain straight thru yr eyes & you smell it thru yr nose without it needing to be translated into/from what someone else thinks by someone talking about it. A place like Tas needs you to be able to take it in. You don't get to appreciate it when someone sits next to ya exclaiming all day. Even if they're saying "oooh thats beautiful", well hell i know its beautiful, thats why i'm here, and i'd rather just absorb it without putting it in a box all the time. I'm sure this can vary depending on your co-driver/passengers but out of 4 people in yr car u gonna get one who thinks there is need for constant commentary. Which is also ok sometimes but like i said, in a place like Tas u need alone time.

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