West Bound and Down... Loaded Up and Truckin'...

Well... OK, not quite yet... but we will be shortly :o) rolllin' the rig on into the unknown. Unknown to us anyway.

This Leaving... has got me to thinkin' 'bout things... again...

I'm pretty much a collection of walking talking contradictions... Don't want a laid out life... I Like not knowing what's around the next bend... wondering what's comin' up...  feeling like I still have choices... but I'm really uncomfortable with surprises... I like people... but too many of 'em at one time and eeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiikkkkkkkeeesssss! I pull my hair out... and uh that dome, if ya'll ain't noticed, is shiny and hairless these days! ;o)

I don't like doing much of anything with the thought that it's For the Money... but what can I say... the things money can yield a guy... well... I'm not giving up my Motorcycle... Uh Uh... THAT... ain't happenin'!

I was asked a week or so ago, where I'd settle if I did again... "Where's your favorite place?"... I couldn't answer... "Yellowstone has always been a... but wait... Glacier country is fine... but... Lake Ponderay is right up their with the Olympic Penninsula... and... it's awful beautiful in the Tonto Basin..." ....

I'm frugal by nature... but... true to my Cowboy Roots...If I've got a dollar bill, I spend it! :o

Aw hell, I could go on for most of the day... I had a point here somehwere...uh...

Oh Yeah... I got to thinkin' 'bout what it is... that makes me hunger for wanderin', that pushes me away from things I value... I've got family in one place... very good friends in another... all of who I miss... painfully... when they're not around...

...so why the urge to roll?

I wonder if I'll ever, really, have that answer... or if I'll always be runnin' from one Itch... to the next? :o) and hopin' to find the salve that soothes 'em all at the same time.

... am I just shallow, fickle, and indecisive? ...Greedy and wanting it all? Eat my cake and have it too?

... or... maybe it's that... that constant itch... somewhere... Is the Thing that keeps all those pieces in perspective...That being away from the things I value highest... keeps them from becoming common and unappreciated... Keeps their Value to me in Sharp Focus... by their absence?

Dang... that almost sounds like that Old line... something about; "Why are you pounding on your foot with a hammer?"... answer: "because it feels so good when I stop!" :o)

... Is a Gypsy like me some sort of a Mobile Masochist? :o) geeze!... I hope not... I like to think I've got a shinier motivation than that!

The unanswerable question? well... it'll have to wait... Cuz... it's time to finish loading the rig, get hitch up and see if I can find Burro Creek!

We're needful of gettin' back on the road... Itchy ya know...

Back out there, followin' my Nose... Huntin' for the Answers to Questions I've not Asked Myself Yet!
Brian