Almost just took off today

Riding around my little podunk town just to clear the cobbwebs - hadn't been on the bike for almost two damned weeks. Hit the bypass, dicing with traffic, big rigs, cagers on a mission ... Everything clear and bright in the sunshine, blue sky ... bike just humming along - perfect. I swear I was thinking "Credit card ? Check. Cash in mah pocket ? Check. Why the hell not ?" Just effing go, leave, not tell anybody, could be two states away by midnight.

I swear, one of these days, I am gone . Nothing but me and the bike and what I'm wearing/ carrying in my pockets.

 

Some of the best adventures are those that are not planned. Ride Safe and ATGATT

 

last time I was struck by wanderlust like that I went from Charlotte,NC to Mount Mitchell then BRP to Roanoke,VA. Wish I had a camera with me lol

 

IMO many of us have had much the same thought. I usually get as far a Walmart.

 

Become a bike owning Jack Reacher!

 

There were times when I was commuting on my bike, that I would hop on it in the morning and it took all I could muster to not take off. Cool, sunny morning and ACH or Malibu calling me. Now that I have done a road trip from Moorpark to Nashville, it is a bug that eats at you. Wanderlust. It is an addiction, one you'll never be rid of.

 

I hear ya SS, two weeks, how did ya do it? haha....just took a ride today, haven't been on the girl since Sept. No plans on your destination always turns out great. Used to do it every year leaving Laguna, flip a coin....head east.

 

Those are some fun trips, wallet? Check. Gear? Check. Total lack of fucks to give? Check.

Let's ride.

 

Been on two of those rides in the last few years. I downloaded my map from my Garmin and printed it off. Looked like a spider web. Five weeks and something like 8,000 miles through Washington, Oregon, and California, mostly California. Then last year it was 3 weeks and 5K miles, BC, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Nebrask, Wyoming, SOuth and North Dakota, (might have been in Montana too cause honestly, I was lost). Then up into Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and back home to west coast of BC.

Hope to do even a bigger, longer and three month or so trip maybe next year.

Go do it man! You will smile into eternity.

 

This is why I go to Walmart. The greeters smile back most of the time. This Eternity dude doing that is iffy.