Sadness as the year draws to a close but hope for the future 😔

I can be sad about what was, but there is only 13 days left in the year, so I might as well maximize them before it’s done forever. Put on as many miles, see as much as possible before the year is forever done.

Truth is that I am quite excited about going to Michigan and Upper Peninsula next summer, and this does remove a major mental impediment to the trip. And it will give me a chance to build a better rig, with fewer worries in first few years. Seeing the Midwest with the forests, farms, dirty hick towns that smell like burn barrel, manure and paper plants, all while singing along with Ian Tyson and Dick Curless. Seeing places that might be on a map, but aren’t on many people’s mental maps except but the locals, and certainly can’t be found in any tourist brochure.

But the internet is like, don’t you want a plastic house in suburbs, heated and cooled to 72 year round, with a 100 foot square television in XXX High-tech 200000 Resolution and high 62G speed internet and a 30 yard plastic “recycling” dumpster in front yard? That you can drive your frugal 20-year old Honda Civic to and from, because that’s the financially responsible thing to do. Please put a bullet through my brain if it ever comes to that. Thanks.