Goin' Too Fast? ... or Just Right?

 I don't know that I know for sure.

"Anon" asked what's the rush? Why'd we roll from Moab to La Grande so quick? Considering a lot of what I've written... to stop an' smell the roses and NOT be in a rush... A fair question. I'm not real sure there's an answer a lot of folks will like though!

Sometimes, much of the time... My pleasure is to sit and look... or just meander along... pokin' around here and there... Turnin' left when the crowd runs right. Other times... the gypsy itch is hard to soothe, and I pick 'em up and put 'em down, coverin' some country in the process...

Kind of like a herd of Elk that have been known to run twenty miles when they got spooked... Maybe that I-84 Spooked me? :o) and pushed me to get past it?

Then... there is the season... Pushin' November and we go and choose to turn our circle North, up against the advancing winter beast... Almost thumbing our noses at him... Can't dawdle too long... or those winter winds'll catch up.

But...

... Not This winter ya bugger! Ya don't get to freeze my kiester, and my Bike... This... winter! They'll be warmin' up down on the southern desert!

Three days travel to here... we'll be here three nights, and days, along the Grande Ronde River... and then, a slow meander down the Columbia River gorge to the coast.

... and then, part of me had been held static for so long, fightin' to get loose...that it's simply takin' a while, maybe even longer than, I , expected... to wear off the Edge, and the pent up wanderlust of my urge to drift.

I think you'll see me slowin' down some... but hey... it's taken nigh on to a month... to get from Denver to here... so, it ain't All been rushin' an' movin'! :o)

and one last thing... I'm hesitant to speak of... That country From North of Moab and across Southern Idaho... well... it's dry. Now, I was grown up in the desert of Southern Arizona... so, I know desert... but there's something in that open, dry, North Utah/South Idaho Desert that we came through... that just doesn't sing to this Ol' buster.

I don't like to put down anyone's home country, and I'll not do that here... There's quite a few folks who live in that area, so something is there that holds 'em... it just don't speak to me... so I rolled through it quick... and tucked back into these Oregon Pines.

When you stop and really look at what I've written, ain't that the foundation of it? Go with your gut... Follow your heart. Do what's right... right now. Don't get frozen into a line of travel... or anything else, simply 'cause you started out that way. If the trail changes... adjust to it.

When you put on weight, you buy bigger jeans... If you set out to go south... but something turns you North... stop in at Wal Mart and buy yourself a hoodie... and just keep on rollin'!

Now I'm not talkin' ethics here...those have got to pretty near be rigid. They're not something you can allow to change with the wind... but Livin'! is a tee total different deal.

As you wander and see more of the world around you... your heart and soul, if you're awake... can't help but get stretched some. You see how others live... how poor some are, how their ways of doin' the tasks of livin' are so different than you own... even right here in the same country.

It would seem to me that if you come back from a long trip, through new country, the same person you were when you left... you must have been asleep most of the time!

So... why did I roll so fast the last few days? Not really sure... and to tell the truth... I'm not really carin'. I just moved when the spirit said Roll and stopped when the spirit said; Hold up Cowboy.

I'm here. I've got a lot of road in front of me... plenty of stories yet to write... and so, I'll just get on about doin' that.

Just a Driftin' Cowboy...

Searching for Soft Winds and Sunny Slopes
Brian

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