Comments on: Doubt, Foreboding and the Solitary Adventurer https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/05/doubt-foreboding-and-solitary/ Exploring life on a Vespa, Royal Enfield Himalayan, Honda Trail 125, and a Kawasaki W650 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:32:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/05/doubt-foreboding-and-solitary/#comment-5567 Mon, 30 May 2011 01:00:22 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=272#comment-5567 Ara: Best wishes to you in your prostate battle. And thank you for your thoughts on doing things today. I have a hard head but things are getting through!

Give Spirit a pat on the head for me!

]]> By: ara & spirit https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/05/doubt-foreboding-and-solitary/#comment-5555 Sun, 29 May 2011 04:50:54 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=272#comment-5555 Whatever you are going to do, do it now. Do it now when logistically and mentally and can I say “spiritualy”? possible. Cross country today is a breeze and yet, one needs to almost be reborn with a sense of prepardness mainly never loosing sight of Plan B… sometimes even Plan C.
I don’t know if all this makes sense… I don’t drink either by choice, yet, after 5 years full time on the road I just went through 14 snips and more snips yesterday… what are snips? Prostate Biopsy… at 63 the numbers are bad… Will beat this too… so, still, whatever you dream of, do it now…
Be well… Ara & Spirit

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/05/doubt-foreboding-and-solitary/#comment-5527 Sat, 28 May 2011 04:14:16 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=272#comment-5527 Bryce: Sudden, super high blood pressure. So diet and exercise changes were suggested along with temporary medication until I see my doctor.

Junior has already received some extra miles of walking.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/05/doubt-foreboding-and-solitary/#comment-5526 Sat, 28 May 2011 04:08:58 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=272#comment-5526 Bobskoot: Life serves up endless pitfalls and magic. Just need to go with the flow I guess and enjoy the ride.

]]> By: Jack Riepe https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/05/doubt-foreboding-and-solitary/#comment-5524 Sat, 28 May 2011 01:10:19 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=272#comment-5524 Dear Steve:

In the summer, I have a love affair with gin and rum. Two years ago, pharmaceutical chemistry guaranteed I’d have a raging headache after three drinks. I just couldn’t justify the loss of a day ot two due to pain in my head.

Except tonight. I want to gert on my bike and rage to the horizon. I want to make a dozen questionable decisions based on testosterone, and the chance to spread it around. It is 9:04pm… It is the first night of a holiday weekend… It is the first night of the summer… And I have already had 5 gin and tonics.

I will ride that bike at dawn.

Thank God I can still write like I’m 20… I understand that jack-hammer sex at my age can be fatal… What the hell… She’ll just have to take her chances lke everyone else.

Fondest regards,
Jsck/reep

]]> By: Bryce https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/05/doubt-foreboding-and-solitary/#comment-5523 Sat, 28 May 2011 00:15:53 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=272#comment-5523 OK, the 3G iPhone works just about anywhere, including the ER of the hospital. Ya know as we age, our physical body changes, and often not for the better internally.
Am missing a kidney and my spleen thanks to cancer and today am still alive though not riding on two wheels. Doctors can be wrong, why diet and exercise, for you? Granted some of those Sunday morning breakfast rides seem to have too much of the fatty foods; ever figured out how much?

So get your butt off the too short guerny, and go walk Junior who appears to be so wistful not having you near him. Cut down cut out, and keep walking. And get well soon.

]]> By: bobskoot https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/05/doubt-foreboding-and-solitary/#comment-5522 Fri, 27 May 2011 20:48:40 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=272#comment-5522 Steve:

sorry to hear about your malady.

I don’t drink by choice, and now I find that you don’t drink by statute.

one less bottle to carry on your journey. I can’t believe it, rIEPE and Mr Conch in one place. Too bad PA is too far away for me

bob
Riding the Wet Coast

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/05/doubt-foreboding-and-solitary/#comment-5521 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:04:23 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=272#comment-5521 Dear Jack Riepe: Recent health events preclude any ingestion of alcohol. I suppose I should post something about that miserable story. But I digress; this comment is about you.

Best wishes on your literary endeavors. As with riding my writing takes the form of short little pieces. I admire the writers (and riders) who can embrace the longer, more demanding journey. Don’t let rum or whiskey lead you away from the keyboard.

I still think this blog benefits greatly from your appearance here. Celebrities commenting is a rare occurrence.

]]> By: Jack Riepe https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/05/doubt-foreboding-and-solitary/#comment-5520 Fri, 27 May 2011 13:07:39 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=272#comment-5520 Dear Steve:

Life has come to a desperate crossroads, when anyone thinks my opinion adds to the credibility of a column.

I strongly urge you to drink a whole lot more.

To answer your conclusion, I am working at least 6 hours a day on moto writing. I am now focusing o two books, and plan to have 60 chapters, 30 in each, done by the year’s end.. I have discovered something liberating in all this… But not yet profitable.

Fondest regards,
Jack / Reep

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/05/doubt-foreboding-and-solitary/#comment-5517 Thu, 26 May 2011 23:51:18 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=272#comment-5517 Brady: Fretting is a tough thing to let go of. Everyone has something I guess that their expectations get the best of them.

Sitting here right now and thinking about what would concern me most about a cross country trip on the Vespa—- would have to be a breakdown. Not so many Vespa mechanics around and parts would be a matter of having them shipped in.

Ride a Kawasaki,Harley or Honda and the odds are much better that you will be delayed far less.

That said, I still want to go someday!

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