I just bought an old moped!? (part 1)
My biological clock just turned 34 years of age a few weeks ago, and I am not sure how to feel about that. Inside i stil feel 21? but the outside body is begining to show som signes – acheing in the morning, a few gray hairs and oh how tired i am all the time haha. The last couple of years has been very.. interessting to say the least. i have been traped in some sort og “identity limbo” where as im not so sure where my life is going, or what i am supposed to do anymore? in my late 20's I seemd to have it all planed out, I just finished my education as a teacher, and was about to land my first job (oh how that flopped;–)). now I dont know where im going, and im sure as **** not going back to teaching as long as the conditions in my part of the world is as.. well as it is to put it politely. Enough of that... I have long been looking for some sort of direction in my sometimes mondane excistence, but sort of didnt know what or how? A few years back i felt adventurous and got my motorcycle driverslicens, and have been fixing up old motorcycles and riding those around – wich was fine for a while – I still do that. But as time went by it just didnt do it for me anymore... That is until i found “it” on facebook-marketplace... My first taste of freedom! a 1980's 50cc Vespa Ciao! KAAZHAAAMM..! I was immediately transported back to when I was 12 years old, and finaly got my hands on my first moped. Oh the freedom and joy that little moped gave me. Endless summers, riding around town with friends, wrenching and doing silly little stunts. Suddenly I was not bound to the boundries of my small costal town – now i could travel anywhere in the world (or at least it felt like that in the mind of a 12 year old boy). I eventually drove it to pices, but the memories on that little machine will always stay precious to me :) Back to me anno 34 summers old... I quickly chatted up the person selling the moped, and he told me it was running, but poorly, and needed a bit of love. I made a deal to come pick it up the same day, but had a bit of a dilemma.. it was located in a city 50 km away, and with a car that can't pull a trailer, I had absolutely no way of transporting it home..