ISLANDS In the sun
WHO DOESN’T LIKE islands, especially for motorcycle trips? You get a sort of buzz of… completion when you ride them – always assuming that they’re small enough to cover in one trip – and when you leave there is a distinct feeling that, yeah, I’ve seen that place! I know that place now! It’s wrong, of course. No matter how small an island, there is always something left to discover next time you visit; but what the hell, we don’t have to be right all the time, do we?
Islands also tend to leave impressions that are simpler and easier to turn into memories. They’re more consistent, somehow, than those of a larger place without definitely identifiable edges.
Does that all sound like over-thinking? It probably is. The point, I guess, is simply that there are islands on this planet which
