I've been contemplating my trip almost all the time now as we prepare to cast off our lines. I'm talking about my cross country motorcycle trip. I've traveled around the world more than once, and have been here and there most of my adult life, so this trip is just another chapter. However, I'm glad that I still get nervous a little preparing for the unknown. If I didn't, what would be the point of this adventure in the first place?
I haven't been a rider my whole life. In fact, this is a relatively new experience for me. I remember the first time I rode a motorcycle -- a dirt bike in Nepal, for a day -- a girlfriend back then said, "You're a boy! Of course you know how to ride!" and off we went through the countryside among rickshaws, elephants, and other things.
But, that's another story.
This is a BIG trip through Alaska, the lower 48, and back again with the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge. Some folks I know, just can't get their heads around it. Why? I don't just ship my bike down to the Keys? It's inconceivable for them. They don't get it! (And if I gotta explain it to you, then you don't get it!)
A 14,000-mile trip through some of the greatest terrain on the planet with like-minded riders and for chance to win a sack of gold in the end?.. Shhhhii##! It's a vacation of a life-time! Riding just for fun, setting my head down at night under a big sky, and moving at my own pace with folks who know what I'm talking about -- it's the freedom that we crave, and the passion that fuels our next ride.
My route is picked out with some ideas of things to see and do along the way. But mostly, I'm leaving things open and letting the trip unfold for me as we (me and my 2010 HD Dyna WG) go. Funny, as I think about the start of this trip, I can't help but get the feeling that it has already started, and now I'm left pondering the past, present, and future as one thing. Yeah, this trip is going to be...? And, that's the beauty of it!
(Brody will log his trip.
Came back daily until July as he reaches the end of his 14,000 miles!)
