Just 23 days until he arrives in León, I have spent these months in Afghanistan and although it seems like yesterday when there is for the month of March I came to these bad lands, a lot of time has passed, many experiences, some bad and the less good, here far from home everything is magnified more, I never thought you could miss some things so much that pass in front of us without us noticing.
I can assure you and you already know that one of them is the trial, there was no elevation, sand rib… I didn’t think about how to ride it on the bike, my teammates can attest to that.The trial has helped me to disconnect, even to start a conversation with an Afghan. that I saw riding motorcycles, motorcycles all from China, with an unknown brand, Pamir (mountain in Darí) motorcycles that endure a lot, without maintenance, bad gasoline, and dust and more dust, worthy of study.
These people move with them, without roads on gravely and dusty roads, with them those who can, the rest on their tiny donkeys, a country to know.
As he told me Laia Sanz in conversation with her, “It would be nice to do a Dakar here”, well, yes, and who knows if our work here has helped this country to evolve and stop tribal wars, all caused by religion, which I doubt, the future of Afghanistan is very black, but I would like to think that at least the future of Afghanistan will be a great way to achieve it. The people I’ve dealt with here, and who I’ve grown fond of in part, are going to have a better future And one day, who knows, I’ll go from side by side in the province of Bhagdis where I have been, a caravan of Dakar motorcycles.
See you soon on our bike.
Sergio Pérez from Afghanistan (link to his website)
