Howdy my friends, welcome to your weekly dose of my insanity!  LOL!

Under the category of best laid plans and all that … the week started where I couldn’t have guessed.  I had “planned” on a sunny uneventful ride from this place of rainbows towards Lake Tahoe.  Didn’t happen.  I had connected with a person who was going to sell me a bike.  He promptly sold them all even though he knew I was coming  Then I hit a hawk in the bus (and yea, we’re going to talk more about that in the BTS video).

But mostly there has been something going on that I want to briefly discuss here

I’m lonely.  Part of it is (of course!) because of my separation from Nikki.  Going from a long-term couple to a single dude of 62 is supposed to be hard.  But this is actually something that I’m been dealing with since before the international travel portion of the “run away from work and play” adventure began.

As I type these words, I’m sitting in a minor rainstorm from the remnants of Hurricane Hillary, disconnected from physical humans, in the dark to save batteries, and I’m forcing myself to ponder.  I know that I can (all too) often fall into melancholy, and perhaps that’s what I really need to deal with, and not the symptoms.

So yep, I’m doing the difficult.  Figuring out after sixty some years how to be happy.  I’m sure it will only take a week or two now that I’m finally looking into the matter (and yea, that was obvious sarcasm  LOL).  I’m thinking quiet mind, zen-kinda-stuff, and perhaps general acceptance might lead me somewhere.  It’s still in the early stages of over-planning.  🙂

Enjoy this week’s BTS!  And we’ll see ya real soon!

– Rick