Out this morning with shirt sleeve weather heading down the self proclaimed “loneliest highway” route 50 across Nevada. Once in Utah we cut off on roads that should be called loneliest highways over to our stop for the night. The Utah roads today remind me of many of our choices in highways on these trips. We do the tourist roads, the motorcycle roads, national parks, and our favorite the “green dots” from the Rand McNally atlas, but oh the other roads. The ones that aren’t on anyone’s “best of” list or in any motorcycle magazine or listed on a web site. The roads we find by accident where we drive most of the day without seeing another bike and meet interesting people at every stop.
Met a couple riding a BMW today that were in there 70’s riding by themselves. At a fuel stop the gentleman seemed to be having bike problems and I asked what was wrong. He said I think my pacemaker screwed up the ignition. They provide inspiration to the rest of us to keep riding.
After Tim left today I was thinking about tomorrow being father’s day another day when we don’t have to do anything we don’t want to, like many of the other days in the year. I’m thinking back to about ten or twelve distinct times this trip where we have passed young fathers with their kids along the side of the road. A couple that come readily to mind are a father pushing a small child in a swing stopped pushing to stare as we drove by, another Dad stopped pushing a stroller along a creek to give us a thumbs up as we rumbled through. I could tell by the body language that they all longed to be on a bike going somewhere. If I could have stopped to talk to them I would tell them don’t wish or waste this precious time. You get one chance to be a Dad, make full use of it, enjoy and inspire your children, and spend every moment with them you can. Your time to do what we are doing will be along all too soon and if you are lucky your children will turn out to be your inspiration. I’m looking forward to being home and seeing my inspirations.
Happy Father’s Day
Chuck
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WOW! Had to get the kleenex out on that post...a tender moment. It's all so true. We have the best kids and grandkids. I'm sure the grandkids will give us more gray hairs in making more precious memories.
Ahhh...tear-jerker...
You and Mom ARE our inspiration, Dad. Ted and I were just talking today how becoming parents has given us a new appreciation for our own. And we're just getting started! Thanks for being the best Dad!
Enjoy the rest of your trip!
xoxo
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