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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Heading towards Rome
From La Spezia I continued my way down towards Rome, and on my way in the middle of nowhere my motorcycle decides to break down. Unfortunately I was also on a toll road so it was impossible to get my bike off the interstate because it had guard rails the entire way. The good part of this was there was an exit only 6 miles away and it was a nice day to get some exercise. After pushing my bike past 2 cops and through the toll booth, I found a gas station. In Italy English is not as well spoken as other places in Europe and everything is also closed on Saturdays. Lucky for me....it was Saturday and to make me even luckier it was about to be the beginning of August and everything closes in Italy for that month. As I was pushing my bike through some little town just outside of Pisa, I asked a kind stranger for advice on what I should do to get my bike going. We went to his house and called all over town to see if anyone could help repair my bikes electrical problem. We found a guy who said he would look at it, but he doesn't work on those bikes. We showed up and took the entire electrical system apart and put it back together and ........we didn't really do anything, but it worked. After that he brought me back to his home for an authentic Italian meal with his family. Actually worked out to be a really nice experience! Stressing about things really have no purpose. You can just do what you can do to fix the problems and things always seem to work out anyway! Thank you Giuseppe Rovelli for everything!
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