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Published: June 25th 2016
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The road goes on forever.
It's up to you to take the journey. Greetings from Los Angeles! I'm home, I'm safe and I have a few things to say in order to wrap this adventure up.
3 weeks ago, I kissed my wife goodbye, fired up the Mothership's big six cylinder engine and pointed her front wheel east. I had a rough idea of the high points that I'd hit along the way, the overall destinations and the friends I'd visit but it became so much more than that. The road is like that. It surprises you and changes your priorities. It reminds you that there is so much more than what you see every day. It lets/makes you be yourself. The road never lies, nor does it accept lies. It will make you honest. Honest with yourself, your machine and honest with the world around you.
My Mother-in-law asked me what I learned from this trip. That's the right question, isn't it. What do I know now that I didn't know or had forgotten before I left? A lot as it turns out.
I learned that I have imprisoned myself with excuses not to do things, work, family, etc. I also learned how to escape that prison without abandoning any
Storms can be conquered.
It doesn't matter if they are internal or external. of my responsibilities. You see, as is the case with most people, I had the key to my own chains all along. It just so happens that in my case, the key in question fits a motorcycle that has become a close friend over the last 10 years.
I also learned a little about my own duality, another trait that we all share. I went into this thinking that the Alien was only a small part of myself that I've kept a tight leash on, lest he get me into trouble. It turns out that he and I are one and the same. I've learned that the Alien was never the destructive, irresponsible part of my personality as I had long thought, rather he was the part that has just been quietly waiting patiently, occasionally scratching at the door, for me to remember how to be him again. How to be whole again. From now on, I will be letting my old pal out to play on a more regular basis. Sure, he might say the wrong thing, he might upset some people, he might even be a little selfish but the guy sure knows how to have fun!
There are those close to me who would like me to sell the Mothership and move on to other things. They care about me and fear for my safety. What they don't understand is that I NEED that bike, for all that she is and all that she represents. For the Zen, the therapy, the pure joy that nothing else in my life brings.
I learned, or more accurately I remembered that I love writing. I'm going to be doing more of that!
Most of all, I learned that everything is going to be ok. I am healed.
Thank you all for joining me on this journey. I've enjoyed relating my experiences to you and I hope that I have done an adequate job of it. I hope that you will take some trips of your own and I'd love to follow along. There are more journeys in the future for the Mothership and I , which I will relate them here as they happen. For now though, it's back to work, back to business. In my heart and in my mind though... the Alien rides!!!
Thank you all for your time and support, I'll see you on the road,
Ride safe,
Alien
June 2016
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Beverly
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As I said before its obvious that uou can write. I hope you pick a subject that interests me,I would love to read your book!! Glad you made it home safely and feel refreshed! Bev