LETS RIDE! and talk about tomorrow – 01-24-18 – 2004 BMW R 1150 GS Adventure motovlog
Going over my plans for this week’s desert adventure; the anxiety which always haunts me before, the settled resolve that meets me once I’m there, and the blessing of empty which I always take back with me.
By this time tomorrow I’ll be back in Siberia. The desert killer should be nowhere around then, the atmosphere being just right for life; heavy sweater weather really, at least until it’s very night. Though my anxiety is already high now, for the awareness of how far and removed that distant somewhere is from the safe and secure of home and family.
This will be my first time back in the desert in nearly two months. By now the Orion constellation will dominate the night sky, and the moon will be more than half grown towards January maturity. There’ll be no lightning in the mountains tomorrow, no rain, no clouds, no wind in the forecast; just a long night of diminishing warmth, increased alone, and a return to the emptiness I both fear and love. I’m less afraid now in my fifties than any decade before, though the deep emptiness out there touches me more than in my youth. It’s because there’s less time left now, less life in me than before; yet more urgency to live better in the brief time that remains.
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