Comments on: Morning Consciousness

By: CodyandMichelle

CodyandMichelle — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:28:00 +0000

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By: American Scooterist Blog

American Scooterist Blog — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:03:00 +0000

Steve, you're killin' me. Any more of these fog shots and I'll be figuring a way to see the sunrise at the McKinley Marina in Milwaukee again. See, now that's about a five hundred mile scooter ride from where I am now. Any more of these fog-ride pictures an I'm gonna do it I swear I am... God, I miss those fog rides...

Great stuff Steve, really great stuff you produce!

Harv aka Roadbum

By: irondad

irondad — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:30:00 +0000

I really like the early morning hours, too. I’m usually on the road by 5:30. Do have to say that I’m becoming concerned by your increasing affection for fog. Do you live in Pennsylvania or Transylvania? 🙂

By: gary

gary — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:00:00 +0000

It appears that I am going to have to learn to slow down even more.

Ride well,
=gc=

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:14:00 +0000

hrw115: Cool Beans opens every morning at 7:30 AM. 9 AM on Sunday. I put a live link in the text to their Web site.

vinod: I have driven across route 6 in pieces over the years. The most beautiful stretches are in the north eastern and north central parts of the state. Rider Magazine recently had an article about it.

It is a main road with traffic running at 55 MPH and faster. Two-lanes for most of it. If you want a slower pace and have the time (and a map) I would travel the spider network of secondary state and township roads that follow along that route to the north and south. These roads are much less traveled and you can easily travel at whatever speeds you want and conditions will allow.

For me that means poking along at time at 15 MPH to look at things. You won't get away with that on route 6.

christopher: If you have an office in Bellefonte you definitely have to put them on you list!

tim: I love the key to the portal idea. You are exactly right! Speed is the antithesis to awareness I think.

anonymous: Fog could be a nightmare if there is a lot of traffic. I have only ridden is near desolation in fog so I only have to watch for the occassional errand driver or rider. Good luck on your photo tour!

another anonymous: A Bonneville to a GTS! That's a switch. And perhaps one of those doors swung open that you'll ask why you didn't do it years ago.

Good luck with your new adventures.

geist: Yeah, it was sort of startling when I saw it too. My expectations for hot chocolate are pretty low. Cool Beans obviously takes their chocolate seriously.

alex: Thanks for your kind words about the picture. I plan on making a picture for my office so I can stare at it now and then.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:01:00 +0000

That first picture is absolutely stunning. You should make prints of that.

By: Giest

Giest — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:39:00 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cup of hot chocolate that made me drool. That looks simply delicious!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:32:00 +0000

I have enjoyed your blog so much I’m thinking of selling my Bonneville and getting a GTS 250.
Now that I’m retired I’ll have tons of time on my hands to travel and maybe pass some of the points of interest you have talked about.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:37:00 +0000

I am going to take my camera and I'm going to take pictures and i am going to take hours to get wherver it is i am not going.
Thats on my days off.
Now, as for enjoying fog, I'd have to be burned at the stake before i could manage that. I do like looking at gorgeous pictures of it though.

By: SimplyTim

SimplyTim — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:28:00 +0000

Steve,

I've been thinking about this whole process of taking time, not rushing, and "go slow, mon."

And I'm coming to the conclusion that it's like a skeleton key for a portal to a different way of being and experiencing.

Go too fast or go and be preoccupied and you miss the portal. Go at the right pace and with mindfulness and the passage presents and you can slip through.

If you bring the old to the fresh, you will muck it up all over again. But then you can start over again, and repeat till it becomes ingrained.

Picture 1 has it. Picture 4 with the hot chocolate has it also.

Tim