January 27, 2012
Celebrate Winter: Go Snowbiking!
Posted by vagoscribe under MTB | Tags: Amphitheater Trail, biking, indiana, mountain biking, MTB, snowbike |Leave a Comment
January 25, 2012
To get far away from people for a while.
To get far away from people with other people (sometimes) that, without needing to express such, also want to get far away from people.
To see what’s around the next turn.
To surf the dirt.
To climb a mountain and ride down the other side…because.
To feel flow in your toes.
To be healthy.
To live.
To feel exhausted in every bone and muscle of the body.
To sleep well.
To better understand contour lines.
To better understand physical limitations.
To work harder to overcome some of those physical limitations.
To focus in the moment, so as to keep pedaling.
To experience the bio-chemical magic of being human when life’s whoas become less so as a result of solving problems whilst navigating a rock garden.
To see distant places of wondrous beauty.
To be here now.
January 23, 2012
i need some desert in my cheekbones
some searing hot light that pierces me
some gritty dirt and stone under my feet
i need some hard edges that cut the sky
some lines that break the landscape
some bleakness that shouts out to me
“you don’t belong here so come on in
and walk around and make yourself
at home, intrepid stranger of recent times”
January 21, 2012
Why Travel?
Posted by vagoscribe under Say Something | Tags: africa, food, Latin America, Paraguay, travel |1 Comment
To break down stereotypes.
To undo the learning in your head.
To learn that you have a lot to learn.
To taste how foods are prepared by other people’s hands.
To drink local juices, brews, concoctions with the people.
To know how a place smells and not just how it looks.
To be discomforted.
To feel what it’s like to not understand what someone is saying.
To feel the satisfaction of communicating with someone whose language you do not speak.
To better recognize from where it is that you come from.
To realize the arbitrariness of political borders.
To find that humanity’s borders are non-existent, unless we create them.
To get turned around, lost, disoriented.
To be helped by someone who sees that we need it, and as a result, have a new found trust in “strangers.”
To wake up in a bed that isn’t familiar, and be excited and a little afraid about the unknown that awaits outside the door.
To see the differences in how people live, and learn to accept them, and eventually celebrate them by adopting some of those ways into your own life.
To see what makes people smile on planet Earth.
To walk in forests, deserts, grasslands, mountains new to you.
To swim in oceans, lakes and rivers that your skin hasn’t touched.
To assist in making the world a better place for all of us to live by working side-by-side, shoulder-to-shoulder with each other, sharing our skills and determining, together, rich and poor, “educated” and “uneducated,” how to answer a call of need.
