It has been far to long.
I got the creativity back about sept. 2009 but that definitely did not translate to blogging more. I could use the excuse that my computer took a dump soon after that but it would not be true.
I have had a couple adventures since I last posted, biking in Arkansas, finally buying a car, getting more into bike camping.
All of those adventures have come together to just give me a hunger to bike more and help others bike more and I wonder where that will lead.
I always said I was a mountain biker and not a road biker, but I am even moving away from that. I am realizing that I love the adventure. If it is on the road is great, if it is on a small path winding through the mountains even better. If I meet up with other random bicyclist as the adventure progresses that is the best thing of all.
What is even more crazy, is that for the last 5ish years most of my big adventures have involved a motorcycle. I think that might be changing. Is it another chapter in my life or just a gradual move to what I have always loved?
I have even been considering selling my car, but then I think about the state of public transport and all the friends I have been able to go and see during the winter since I got it and I realize that I might want to keep it for trips. Biking is awesome but seeing good friends is much better.
I pushed past the first barrier to really having amazing trips on bicycles. I actually road from Colorado Springs to Breckenridge. On a cargo bike
even...About 2/3 of the way there I met up with some guys doing the Colorado Trail Race. And I kept up with them on my big massive cargo bike. It was kind've exciting. I got to have dinner with them and meet some very cool people.
I rode about 5 hrs a day every day and discovered the secret to riding longer distances as I pushed through the wall that would come up every day. Walls are not pushed through in my life. Normally they are skirted around. Pushing through the wall gave me the confidence to start pushing through a couple other walls in my life such as starting to look at where I really want my life to end up. Working for a corporation is not where I want to be the rest of my life. I want to work in a place where I see the same people and build relationships and friendships. Not a place where I am locked away at a desk all day!
Hopefully more to come. But of course I said that last September...
