20-07-2006

Kemerovo – Krasnojarsk 20-07-2006

After we are all awake we have the small pancakes and some tea for breakfast. It is really good. We load up our gear and get ready to leave. So much for the easy part. Although it hasn’t been that long since I met Nadia, it is hard for me to leave her. If it weren’t for Doug, I probably would not have been able to bring myself to leaving her. But then again, if it weren’t for Doug I probably would not have been to the Tomsk bike show and I would not have met Nadia.

I do not have a lot of experience with relationships, just a couple of broken hearts. I have not been in any relationship for 6 or 7 years. It’s a shame, but that’s just how the cookie crumbles. I love to give love and be loved. I probably haven’t met the right girl or I’m old fashioned and my idea of love is not of this day and age. What do I know anyway. I am very shy when it comes to girls. I may talk the talk when I am sitting in a bar with my friends, but I certainly do not walk the walk. Of course Nadia took the first step. It went way further then I would normally go with a girl I just met. The fact that I had more alcohol in my bloodstream than average is not to blame; I have kept my cool before under much worse conditions. I don’t know what happened. She managed to accomplish what I thought was impossible. She just seduced me I guess. In any case she liked me and I liked her. In the morning she still liked me and I still liked her. A couple of days later she still liked me and I still liked her. When the time came to say goodbye, I had fallen in love with her. For the short time that I have been around her, there is nothing about her that I dislike. She is a very interesting person and she has more qualities than meet the eye. And knowing she likes me is incredible and it gives me a feeling that I haven’t felt for far too long. She couldn’t believe that I had already fallen in love with her. Understandable, but I could not but tell her my feelings. I am very honest and serious about that kind of stuff. That is also why I told her that I don’t fool around. I hate it when people play with feelings and a broken heart is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I told her to send me an SMS later on in the day to let me know if she was just playing with me. Just to kill any suspense, I did get a message: she wrote me that she missed me and that she wants me to send her messages and call her once in a while.

With Nadia on my buddy seat, we drove to the edge of town. Only after a long kiss did she catch the bus. We waved and tossed kisses to each other until the bus was out of sight.

She’s not just using me as a toy. I will visit her on the way back and we will see what happens. Maybe Nadia is the "one". She is actually the perfect girl. I am crazy about here. Here English is actually much better than I first thought and she learns quickly. She’s an intelligent girl. She teaches me some more Russian. Communication is not a problem. Oh I can’t wait to hold her in my arms again. Nadia, I love you.

Needless to say, I did not get a lot of the scenery on the way from Kemerovo to Krasnojarsk: I could not stop thinking about Nadia. We stopped at a gastinitsa in Atchinsk, but the prices were a bit high. We got in contact with the people from Krasnojarsk and they told us to just keep on driving to get to Krasnojarsk. By the time we got there a welcoming committee was awaiting us. We were escorted to a garage were we parked our motorcycles. Then Nikolai took us to his lovely apartment in Sosnovoborsk, a good 40 km from Krasnojarsk. He must be doing good, since his home was unlike anything I have ever seen in Russia. New interior, furniture, kitchen and bathroom. This is there winter home, so they normally don’t stay here around this time of year, and they go to Thailand for a couple of weeks during the winter too. Not the average situation for the majority of the Russians. Nikolai is a great guy and we talk, laugh and drink until well in the night.