As you know I love to ride my bicycle and there is almost no day that my bicycle rests. In the summer I ride in the day but with the heat that my country has during the night, it’s almost impossible to sleep during the night so I just go for a night ride. It just so happens that this country is poor and somewhat dangerous with drugs dealers and worse things. Most people are afraid of the dark and I used to be no exception, until two days ago. Again in a night ride I came to a place, far away from my home, that had no lights for some kilometres. I was scared to death, I mean almost wetting my boxers. I decided to force myself to ride that entire area no matter what, I would pick no other way. If you have never been in a small village with just 2000 or 2500 people living there with few public lights at night and some of the most dangerous drug dealers arrested in that village, you must imagine what fear I was feeling. Once I reached that place the first thing I did was to stop the bicycle and enjoy the night. I feared some wild dirty dangerous dog would come and bite me. I also feared that one car would pass and stop there for the worst reasons. Nothing of the sort happened. I had some lunch with me to eat, I ate it, I lied in the ground for a while. I had the entire street for me. And boy I must tell you that being completely alone in a completely dark place with no absolute light, just nature night sounds and the sky with all those stars it’s such as amazing experience. I was there for more than half an hour, once I was fed up of being there, bored not scared, I started the right again. It was around 23:30 pm GMT time. I had about one kilometre to ride in the dark and that was such a great feeling. I did it before in a smaller place, much closer to my home. This time I was more than 15 kilometres away. It was the best night of the year for me. Now ridding in the complete dark has become something I do not want to live without.

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What have you learned with this? We paint very imaginative scenarios of the world. Too bad they are so inaccurate. You need to be there to judge something.