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eric on Apr 19th 2007 Book Store,Motorscooters,Moving,Random Life Stuff,Route 66,Scooter Trips

A quick realization… (peppered with curse words)

Talking to a friend today, I spat out:

“… and you know what’s really fucked up? Everything in my life right now teeters on one thing. Just one. And that is making through the mountains at Flagstaff before the fucking snow hits in October. Sure, I could ride south and snow wouldn’t be an issue, but no. I’m not doing that. … what the fuck is THAT about?!”

For the longest time, I’ve been thinking that everything rested upon when I sell the store. Sure, not much can get going without that. It’s important, of course. But it’s not what is making/breaking anything. It will sell, I know that. But it “has” to sell before a certain time so that I can fucking make it over the fucking mountains at Flagstaff before it fucking snows. What. The. Fuck?

Seriously? I need to think about this.  I need to really re-evaluate everything here. Leave nothing unquestioned an unchallenged.

Ok, there are about 30 of you folks who read this everyday. It’s 30 more than I ever expected (hell, sometimes I can’t even read it!). If anyone has ANYTHING to say about this, say it. Call me on my shit, people. If you think my plans are daft, tell me. If you think it’s not actually ape shit insane  to have EVERYTHING rest upon the weather in Flagstaff, well, tell me that too.

I can’t believe that I did that. That I allowed everything to set itself up so that I have to get across the mountains by October. That’s incredibly. Well, actually, it’s exactly like something that I would do.

I feel like the Donor party with a much smaller buffet.

Now, keep in mind, I’ve got two other trips planned. I could always bag one of those. Maybe I’m making too much out of this. Who knows. I probably am. I can be a bit of a drama queen.

For those not up on things, here is My Summer ’07 Travels page. It’s not fully set in stone or anything just yet, but those are my plans. You can’t see it on there, but everything really *is*  based upon making Flagstaff by October. That would be in the Scoot 66 section.

Oh, and when I asked for opinions on what you think might be crazy, that assumes that it’s perfectly sane to travel the country, riding as much as 13,000 miles on a scooter.  Ok? That is sane. Now, using that as a given, what is insane?

Maybe it will just come down to the question “what do I do now?”  And the answer to that is always, “Whatever comes next.”

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