High Desert in Idaho - amazing big spaces!

There's gotta be a way... 

Some how, some way I need to find a way to make money riding my motorcycle and writing about the amazing experiences I've had!

I could wax philosophical and go on for hours about the zen-ness of being on a bike in a vast wild paradise, how it feeds my soul, renews my spirit, allows me to wrestle and come to agreement with all the old demons and ghosts that hang over my shoulder during my "normal life".

Or I could just go wild, give in to my inner secret self - that old buddy Wanda (as in Wandalust!) who urges me at the most innapropriate and surprising times to set my purse down, grab my keys and boots - and into the sunset I ride!! Ah how blissful would that be? Warm Pacific wind beckoning me to ride faster, over the mountains with wintery peaks, through miles of flowers and forest until I find myself side by side with twisting coastal highways....ahhh yes that would be so nice!

Why not mornings rolling out of a comfy bed in time for coffee with the sunrise, leather's at the ready, tank full of gas and good tires - and just head out - letting the weather determine the route - travelling until the beauty of the surroundings beg you to stop to just sit and listen to ...NOTHING for a while? Watching antelope race through the sage, hearing red tail hawks cry out as they glide for the sheer joy of being able to fly! Seeing fellow riders on the road, sharing a beer, a coffee or a sandwich in a friendly place..chap clad legs stretched out as I lean back into the seat and laugh at a shared experience?

His eyes crackling with laughter, my husband and best forever damn I love him riding partner - sometimes teasing me till I am nearing the red line of anger, only to make me laugh out loud at my foibles, or in amazement that he had the nerve to push me that far! Oh he's a fantastic guy to travel with - knows all the schedules, studies maps and can't remember their numbers once the trip is underway.  Mac is one of a kind - we both studied like it was finals to prep for our most recent venture into California, and be damn if when the rubber hit the road - we both forgot it all! LOL It was heaven all compressed into two and a half weeks!

So my challenge now - or ONE of my challenges now - is to figure out how to make a living riding my bike.  Reporting on the adventures, the highs, the lows, the good, the bad and the ugly of being all over the place on a bike with a variety of people!

This blog has been a starting point and a bit of a test drive - can I actually put to paper in an intellegent way some of my many life adventures? And although it's not going to be pretty - I'm feeling more ready than ever!

Is it because I just got, as they say "another year older and deeper in debt", or is it that a week ago at the local bike dealer's I sat on THE BIKE OF MY DREAMS and as I was drooling over it realized I'll be 60 before I can buy it!! Freaking 60!!!!! Humbling.  Yikes, when the hell did I get this old?

Yup, I pull on the chaps, tie up my boots, zip up my jacket and I'm....ageless! The same as I was how many decades ago? A better rider for sure.  But I feel...so hard to describe - maybe 35? 40? 50? can't say! But I feel good - complete, where I should be. How I was meant to feel as a human being. Can this be my total destiny?

My current job is satisfying, tho a bit restrictive - even with all the freedom to create, be imaginative, it's still a shackle to a computer.  My ride? It's totally free.  Ok not "free" in the monetary sense, but free in the sense I am the one calling the shots, making my own decisions, making the most of the moment.  Not at the expense of my relationships - of course I am happy to be part of a pair, but in the sense that it's so fulfilling to be riding and traveling with my husband, that he's like the icing on the cake!

And with that last almost dewey eyed revelation, reality now demands that I attend another Council meeting, focus on making money to pay the bills -- and to keep me on the road! (at least until I can figure out how to ride and live!)

Keep the shiny side up and the rubber side down friends!