"The weather has turned markedly colder and the shortened daylight triggers some biological reaction that doesn't feel great. Looked back to brighter, warmer, days and rides enters my thoughts more frequently now. Rather than gird and prepare myself for riding in colder weather I'm spending more time remembering summer rides. Like this one with my friend Dave that was merely a ride to breakfast. Just not the closest place or the most direct route."
"It's hard to explain how strongly I respond - emotionally and spiritually - to being in the natural world. As a younger man I traversed these mountains and forests on foot. Much later scooters and motorcycles entered the picture and the experiences and feelings are the same. A quiet satisfaction and a twinkle of joy at being out in the natural world."
Cold weather and shortened daylight prompt recollection of warmer summer rides and preference for remembering those rides instead of preparing for winter riding. A recent ride with a friend followed a meandering thirty-eight-mile loop of mostly dirt and gravel through Appalachian mountains near the author's home, ridden on a Royal Enfield Himalayan and a BMW R100 GS. The route offers sweeping vistas such as Harry's Valley Vista and feelings of liberation from daily concerns. Gravel roads are manageable and not sought for exertion at age seventy. Riding through forests evokes emotional and spiritual responses, providing quiet satisfaction and joy beneath a morning canopy.
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