Were you so excited about your first deep motorbike water crossing that you failed to notice the drastic change in the road conditions, that the once previously smooth 2 lane paved road had turned into nothing more then a dirt track. And were you also so excited about the water crossing that some how you didn't even think about why you were having to submerge your fancey motorbike thy deep in the first place. Had even one of the four of you sparked the slightest of brain functions you'd have realized you were having to do the water crossing because...'there was no %#$ing bridge!' 5 miles back you had been passing trucks not to mention busses and now you had just made your passenger dismount to walk across the elevated 2 foot wide roting bamboo foot path so that she could take your photo as you glefully submerged your motorbike throwing wake towards the couple of bewildered local ladies washing their cloths.
Of course the next two bridgeless watercrossings didn't tip you off that maybe you'd missed the 5 foot by 5 foot sign at the last major intersection. But maybe you should have seen it in the locals eyes. Remember the past 22 days of motorbike driving you'd done and the 1000's of children you'd passed. Remember how there wasn't a single one who didnt' come running, arms flying, to the side of the road to scream, 'Hello!' and smile as big as they possibly could. Yet now every child and every adult you passed just stood there utterly dumbfounded, you might as well have been headless, you'd have gotten the same reaction. That was because no one drove down this road unless they lived on it.
Ok so you didn't notice the road turned into a dirt track, you didn't notice the absence of bridges and you didn't take note of the locals reactions but 30 km on there was no way to miss the fact that the dirt track just abruptly ended in a field.
Bzzzzzzzzt. Four brains begin to function simeltanously, time to turn around.
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