Travel
03.27.13
Safe Travels Dylan
We have had a guest the past four nights. Dylan has ridden his bicycle all the way from Anchorage, Alaska to Asheville. He’s now headed north and will complete his year long loop of the country sometime this summer. We met him via Warm Showers, a service that matches bicycle travelers with willing hosts. Sign up if you want to meet some interesting people or need a place to stay while seeing the world via bike.
This Moment
Today I am on the road heading south, the Everglades and New Zealand shimmering on the horizon. Monday I took a walk around our neighborhood in Asheville. It was a beautiful fall day with a few wisps of color still stubbornly clinging to the branches of the trees. The air was warm for late November but with a hint that something was about to change. A whisper in the breeze indicated that winter was on its way. As I ambled down streets I travel sometimes multiple times a day, the thought struck me that this would be my last day of fall here in the mountains, and one of the last times I would see these familiar streets until after the winter has come and gone, after the freezing and thawing, and the cold north winds have advanced and retreated once again. I was again reminded that all we have is this moment right in front of us and that that is all we really need. This moment.