The night before....

And BORING!!!!

Tomorrow is day one of my BIG 5K+ road trip. Ran into these posters & just had to copy em to remind myself that life is to be lived without a safety net sometimes. As Neil Young sez, "..it's better to burn out, then it is to rust". Despite being comfortable at home, just have to get out of my routine once in awhile &
go fer it!

Million things could go wrong, but a
million things could go right too!

One of my dear friends has been asking me for a while now, when I was going to start thinking about packing. Finally started laying out my gear & planning what I wanted to take on my trip today. Nothing like waiting until the last (almost) minute! But easy day! Got all organized & ready to go for tomorrow in no time at all. All that remains to be packed are items I need tonight. Being in the military certainly helps one learn how to pack & be ready to go anywhere, at a moment's notice. Thanks Uncle Sam!

It is good to get out of one's comfort
zone & shake it up, no?

Today it rained almost all day. My little spot of earth got 2", which is very close to my all time record of 2.5" in one day since I moved here. Happy to have the rain but am just dreading driving down my gravel driveway tomorrow on my bike. No doubt the gravel has moved. Question is how much.

Just bladed my road less than two weeks ago & put in some "speed bumps" in an attempt to keep the water from rushing down the drive & washing gullies in the gravel.

The first time I drove back UP the driveway on my bike, I bottomed out the bike on the first bump, hesitated, then promptly dropped my bike. Took everything I had to right it while on the gravel & hill. But one must do what one has to. Guess we will see how successful I am tomorrow but going down is always easier than going up. Nothing like driving on gravel on a motorcycle, on a hill, with various obstacles to navigate! 

I have the goal of one day being so very savvy on my motorcycle that I can zip around like Steve McQueen did in the movie "The Great Escape". The really cool thing about this scene is he did his own stunts & actually drove the bike instead of a stunt driver. Way to go Steve!!

Anyway, just noticed this entire movie is on youtube so am going to watch it all. Cheap entertainment. Here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBcC6X2FWsQ  Check it out!

So tomorrow I roll.....ETD unknown. But first stop is Kansas City, KS to crash for the night with my travel buddy, Rob.

I'm going to Kansas City. Kansas City here I come!

Hopefully won't run into any rain but if it rains, it rains! All part of the adventure!

So will close with a quote often erroneously credited to Mark Twain. This quote was actually originally in a book titled, "PS I Love You", written by writer H. Jackson Brown, Jr. who published it and credited his mother with this saying.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Tomorrow will be time to sail away from that safe harbor!!