wrap my frozen fingers around a steaming mug of tea to bring them back to life. Hopelessly unprepared for the bleak Scot- tish morning without proper riding gear, it was a painful ride to Edinburgh on my old ‘73 Honda CB250 K4. Mother Nature smiled on a poor spotty youth that year by warming up enough that the remainder of that first, sophomoric tour around Scot- land didn’t leave me with frostbite. Repeat- ing the first leg of that journey in mid-summer in full BMW gear, we cruise into Edinburgh with a plummy English voice announcing our every turn from the GPS, and we are soon touring the magnifi- cent Edinburgh Castle. Nothing’s better than exploring dungeons and sitting on cannons for a twelve-year-old boy, and we lose a few hours walking back hundreds of years in time. Patrick’s an exceptional traveler, so next
up we meander off along the Royal Mile to see the sights. After an hour or so, we stop to watch a young European artist creating magic with newspaper and spray cans. On these ancient Edinburgh streets, I have, as Spalding Grey would say, “my perfect moment.” Patrick is entranced and doesn’t want to leave. As a father, wanting to impart the world as I see it to my son, it’s a home run. Standing amongst Muslim tourists in
full burqas, Japanese tour groups taking hundreds of pictures, Scotsmen in kilts and young Italians playing classical music, he completely connects to the whole experi- ence. As I watch him watching, thoughts swirl through my head of everything from puppet theatre in Indonesia to aboriginal dancing in the Australian outback. A thou- sand other moments from 35 years on the road come back, and my spirits soar higher than the prayer flags along the Tibet/China border I rode past in northern India. I’ve experienced these perfect moments before, and savor every moment as the picture is finally painted and the crowd applauds.
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