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Sunny? Ride. Rainy? Ride.

I guess I don’t really have much of a choice since I don’t have a permanent spot to stay on the road. Embracing the suck is part of the adventure to me and builds resilience as a person.

Besides, the rain is temporary and if you ride far enough in Ireland, you’ll escape the rain to a patch of sun to dry off long enough for the next round of rain 😹 This makes it tolerable to me.

I’m trying to find the purrrfect balance of finishing up Ireland/ the UK and getting to the West side of Europe so that their temperatures die down. It was 116F/ 46.8C in Spain a few weeks ago. Rain might be miserable, but that heat is absolutely intolerable. The other thing I have to consider is finishing before the winter comes and temperatures DROP 🙀

It feels like I’m playing chess with Mother Nature ♟️ Just a little peek into my decision making and what I need to think about when living in the elements

Is there anything you’re musing over?

Let’s tackle this week y’all! 😼💪🏍️

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Hello from Drombeg Stone Circle in Glandore, Ireland! 🇮🇪🪨😺

This is an ancient megalithic site dating back to the Bronze Age to early Iron Age and was used until the 5th Century AD. The stone circle features 17 stones, 13 of which are still standing. There were cremated remains of an adolescent in a pot found in the circle’s center. The second photo shows a roasting oven area for heating water and the third photo shows the cooking area.

While it’s amazing to see stones still standing for thousands of years that were influenced by humans, it’s always a bit eerie to me that these stone circles have human remains, so I try not to step on too much of anything out of respect. These monuments are literally graveyards. So after a quick walk around and admiring the feats, I leave and don’t spend too much time at these places.

But now you can enjoy these photos without the eerie feeling I experienced 😺

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It’s bike maintenance day! 😺🏍🔧

Honestly this is the first time I’ve done more involved jobs like taking apart my calipers and rebuilding them. I have the typical stock toolkit that fits under the seat and I just don’t carry enough repair stuff with me, nor do I want to. I’m finally somewhere that has extra tools I can use. I’d love to carry a breaker bar, a torque wrench and full size sockets to make things easier, but I chose the badminton, book and skincare life 😹

I forgot how much I missed wrenching. I usually just pay for oil changes on the road because I don’t have a drain pan, nor do I want to deal with the logistics of how to drain the old oil or what contraption I can make to catch it blah blah blah.

So I’m happy to be working on my own bike. She is my machine. Don’t be fooled, I learned and am STILL learning how to do this stuff from YouTube University and sometimes I ask mechanics a bunch of questions before I dive in.

If I can can do it, you can do it too.

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Happy Friday Beautiful Earthlings! I have officially achieved my TRUE life dream: I am a troll now and this is my bridge. Hahaha 😹 If you’re ever having a bad day, I want you to know I’m camping under a bridge in Bulgaria somewhere where an enormous green spider somehow got into my tent at night and I screamed and tried to get it out without touching it or squishing it. Dude. Imagine you only have your headlight and can only see a 3 foot radius in front of you and BAM! This is 2 feet in front of your face. So yucky 🤢 Do you have any fun plans this weekend? Go out and get some fresh air, your body will thank you #chasingcrystal #bulgarianature #bulgariatravel #asianwomen #motoholicseverywhere #wheretheroadends #femalemotorcyclist #solofemaletraveler #motocamping #motodistancing #dualsportlife (at Bulgaria) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChKfsRdomog/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Happy International Women’s Day! Do you know a strong woman? How does she empower you? Shout out to all y’all supporting me and hanging out with me on my journey. Your words of encouragement lift me up on the hardest of days. Thank you for being my ally. The world is better because of you. Photo flashback to crossing the border from Austria to Hungary. Don’t worry, ya girl is still an ice cube in Ireland 🧊 #chasingcrystal #strongwomenlifteachotherup #asianamericanwomen #asianwoman #solofemaletraveler #mototour #mototouring #bikerchicksofinstagram #ladyriders (at Europe) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpif97SvyxS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hello from Ballyliffin, Ireland! 🇮🇪 Ballyliffin is quite amusing to me. It has a population of 426 people as of 2016 and had one grocery store in the entire village which was also a gas station, a newspaper stand and candy store. It’s like men’s 6 in one shampoo, conditioner, face wash, soap, windshield wiper fluid and toothpaste 😹 I’m kidding, sort of Have you ever visited a village with such a low population of people? Did you enjoy it? I like alternating from medium sized cities to villages to change things up. #chasingcrystal #irelandtravel #irelandcalling #ballyliffin #wildatlanticwaydonegal #donegal #donegalireland #donegaltourism (at Ballyliffin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqYflvJvIOB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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