I've been on the road now for three years... Which fits pretty fine, since I've been a gypsy spirit since as long as I can remember. My only regret is that I didn't just change my life to this "way" of going a Long, Long time ago.
Buuuut... There's ALWAYS a but...
I also have a very big "scheming" gene that never rests. To many it carries a face that looks just like indecision or at best a short attention span. In reality, it's more akin to an open mind mixed with a hyper active curiosity and seasoned by a hunger to try a bit of everything; all compounded by the very strong realization that my scrawny ass sits on the shady side of the mountain.
It's a lot like one of those; "If I could" grunt, grunt "just get this" gruuuuunt! "pushed into pla.... Oh Look! A Butterfly!" Clank!! as the tool in my hand falls forgotten on the ground and I go wandering off following my new interest sort of mental meanderings. ;)
Too bad all those psychological deficiencies are financed by the wallet of a gypsy biker cowboy disabled vet! :)
So anyhoo, wandering across the country, riding roads all over the west and having a warm dry bed and a refrigerator for my beer in the fiver right behind me, is absolutely fine! If I get to not liking a neighborhood all I gotta do is hitch up and move my house to a fresh place. No shortage of new places to flicker past my wandering eyes.
The ONLY drawback is there are things I want to do, things that really grab my imagination, that just don't fit into that gypsy living.
I have in my head a vision of a one of a kind camp catering specifically to traveling bikers. Keeping that company are visions of several versions of a "vintage/hot rod/classy "rat ride"/survival" sort of a bike... I'd like to carve the tooled leather seats for those bikes with my own tools... since I used to make my living doing custom leather for several years.
...then there's several, looooong... Rides I want to make that a wife, two dogs and a fifth wheel just don't fit well with... especially a wife that enjoys the occasional 200 mile day with me... but not 40 300 mile days in a row... or longer!
All of those are nestled amongst plenty of other schemes that float around behind my eyes when my vision clears after just a few miles out there on the two lane.
So... though I am as happy as a biker with new tires with the life I have... I am one of those lonesome souls that's never fully satisfied. I'm always pushin' for the horizon... reachin' for the stars... and dreamin' way beyond the world I'm in.
Ain't that what it's all about in the first place? Dreamin' the dreams... and then seein' how many of 'em we can chase down before our odometer ticks its last mile... Living Life and Chasing the Wind!
Grab Your Handles and Ride!
Brian.
... Splitting the wind on a Motorcycle... Feeding my soul with the Healing power of the Open Road... following that twisting, Ribbon of Highway that leads me on...
2 comments:
Ahhh wanderlust.
You know you could do that 40 day in a row thing and your wife could fly to meet you in one spot with her gear and fly home to the RV after a few days. Doesn't help the budget but might be an idea.
Mr. & Mrs. Everyday Riding did that with his Alaska trip and it worked well for them.
Trobairitz; yes Ma'am! We've actually tossed that around. Especially for the return trip(s) I want to make to Alaska... 10,000 miles on the back fender just doesn't tickle her imagination... I just don't get it! ;)
As for the "budget"... really I couldn't care less if it's a budget buster... more of... simply scratching it together in the first place! :) If I can get it together at one time, I have NO problem droppin' the coin. :)
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