I'm a bit of a loner by nature. Not that I don't enjoy the company of others, I do, just that when it is time for me to relax and recharge I find some place to be alone, or at least as alone as I can get. Sometimes that is escaping into a book or just finding someplace where other people are doing the same thing, escaping into their heads and not talking to each other.
When class ended today I came home and watched a few cartoons (you are never too old for cartoons or legos) then hopped on the bike to get some Vietnamese food. After enjoying some very yummy lemongrass chicken I decided to take a road that I had never taken before just to find out where it went.
I found a bar in the middle of nowhere that was packed to overflowing at 1830. I found a gas station that sold alcohol free gas (I topped off the tank with midgrade). I saw lots of purple blossoms on trees lining the roadway, smelled the clean scent of spring, and the scent of dirt when my bike thundered across the bridges connecting stream banks.
Riding a motorcycle is just a more active form of meditation. You keep your eyes open and let the bike say "Ohhmmm."
About Me
- AM
- Raised by conservative Christian parents, enlisted in the Army at 18, used the GI Bill to finish college, and I'm back in the Army. Along the way I've encountered a huge cast of characters, some I got into trouble with, some that passed on skills that have helped me on my life journey.
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- Arctic Patriot
- Bayou Renaissance Man
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- Blue's Blog
- Brigid's Blog, Mausers and Muffins
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- Guffaw in AZ
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- Irons in the Fire
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- Just Stop
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- LucrativePain
- Lurking Rhythmically
- m4040
- Mad Ogre's Blog
- MFRC
- Mountain Guerilla
- Mulligan
- MyDailyKona
- Near the Salty City
- Neo-neocon
- NinePoundSledge
- Photography is Not a Crime
- Random Nuclear Strikes
- RobertaX
- SFMedic
- Sniper's Paradise
- Talk Radio Blogger
- The clue meter
- The Lizard Farmer
- The Silicon Graybeard
- Total Survivalist Libertarian Rantfest
- View From the Porch
- Walls of the City
- Zercool
5 comments:
I always found being behind a rifle did that for me.
No matter how cold, wet, or miserable I am, it all goes away when my nose touches the charging handle (or equivalent).
Everyone's got to have the "one thing" they can do to recharge and withdraw. I'm glad you recognize yours.
AP
So, what do you ride?
95 Honda Magna. The 750cc V4 engine has a much more even sound out of the quad mufflers than normal VTwin cruisers. I'm pretty sure the previous owner cut the baffles in the mufflers as well because she is loud enough to be painful at times.
Eventually I will move up to a bigger bike, just not sure what it will be, or when it will be. Whatever it is will be fuel injected.
I went to the woods for a couple of days. Still Winter in the woods. Come Spring, when more folks are out and about in the woods, I'll head into them a bit deeper, as most who head out into the woods seem to wander no farther than a mile from their cars. Solitude is what I search for.
My only problem with a ride is I'm so used to "I have to be at X by Y" it's hard to just ride and enjoy it.
But I'm working on it.
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