Traveling In My Mind

February 21^st 2009

The last few weeks I have done nothing except sit on the computer and read travel reports and blogs about motorcycle trips. Trips that seem crazy, yet I find myself wondering if they really are… As I read these amazing stories, I imagine what it would be like to take that same trip. What I would do and where I would go if the opportunity presented itself.

I have a trip planned to South Dakota with a good friend of mine and I can hardly wait for that day to come. I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning, yet I know what is to come and that makes the anticipation unbearable! Each year, my trips have gotten progressively longer and it will only be a matter of time before I will want more and more free time each year to satisfy this craving. I seem to plan more and more of my vacations around these "crazy" road trips and I love every minute of it. The planning, the anticipation, the unknown…

I have been growing restless and wish that I had something to satisfy it. Some may say it's the cold weather, others may say I'm crazy, but I can really see how much I have changed in the last 4 years. I would have never considered moving away from my family and friends and yet now I constantly talk about moving south, somewhere warm…and why you ask….? One reason is for the ride and yet that seems like just an excuse. I want to experience something new, something different, something unknown. It all revolves around the saying that "life is short", which is very cliché and yet those three simple words have so much meaning. People talk about how short life is, but I'm sick of talking! I want to experience life and put into action what so many people have merely dreamed.