Because holiday times bring friends and relatives together, more people curiously ask how about the summer bike tour and my significant weight reduction.
It is fun to share the summer bike stories and learn how others react to hearing about such an adventure.
Most struggle to get a brief glimpse of such a journey and force that image into their current life circumstances. If that glimpse does not fit into their life's routine, they abandon all further attempts to reason how it could ever become feasible to take on such a challenge. And yet, thousands of people world-wide have accomplished this task over many different continents over multiple number of years.
For me, there has been a latent desire to complete a long distant tour but it was buried by years of "pressing" issues that blocked out or snuffed out all efforts to organize such an adventure. When a simple comment was over heard in a bike shop, it was that simple "nudge" that kicked over a pile of "pressing" issues and this latent desire rekindled.
My point has to do with the series of comments generated during holiday discussions. Everything from "no way" to "WOW, I would love to do something like that". Could it be true, that everyone who chose to accept the challenge and crossed the US and Canada, are also telling their stories to their holiday visitors? Why not do just that...rekindle these latent desires in each others lives? It may not be about the bike or poverty, but it may be about acknowledging how our excuse building habits constrain us down paths which could only benefit our immediate short term needs and never letting ourselves give ourselves a chance?
For all the new holiday visitors, especially, try leaving a comment. Also visit all the other blog sites associated with http://www.seatosea.org/ and click on Cyclists Blogs .
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