Tour de Life Lesson

I recently had the privilege of spending nearly a week in a remote area known as the Tuli block at the conference of the three countries of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana.  The intended purpose was to ride our mountain bikes in the 11th edition of the Nedbank Tour de Tuli as a guest of Nedbank.  The 4 days (plus 1 extra day for some) traverses the trans-frontier parks of Mapugubwe and runs between the Limpopo, and Shashi rivers.  This is a big 5 reserve teaming with game and wildlife and is a truly unique African experience.  I could regale about the organisation and the logistics and the riding terrain, but since I have been unable to write for some time I wanted to incorporate the experiences on tour with those we come across in life and the meaning that an experience like this can have on our lives and our future.  Certain experiences shape our lives more then we imagine and they can be responsible for either moving us to a new season and direction, or they can at least halt the place where we are and get us to take a good long look at what the future really holds.