Looking for America - A Listening Tour

  Hotel Luna Mystica - Taos, NM Well, I am on my way back home to Florida.  However, not before I explore Taos, Santa Fe, and White Sands National Park - all in New Mexico.  I will then head west to Marfa, TX (look it up - very funky with a Prada store in the desert).  From Marfa, comes Fredericksburg, then Austin, TX.  Will hightail it to Florida after Austin.  BBQ here I come! The colors of the turning Aspens peaked and I am chasing the Fall and warmth.   Left Breckenridge, CO & Headed to Taos, NM Beautiful ride with no little traffic, I was happy to get on the road again.  Once I crossed the Rio Grande Gorge ... I was only 3 miles from my to be lodging at the Hotel Luna Mystica; an RV Park with vintage digs out of yesteryear.  Very mystical. The stars were bright and plentiful as I sat at a campfire and talked with new friends Colin & Julie - and their two dogs.  What a great couple from Western Colorado.  The only r...

Trip from Evergreen, CO to Breckenridge on Hwy 285  Intermission is a time between events, like the space of time between seconds, or as time flies. Thoughts rush in to fill the void.  Either you are comfortable in a void, or you are not.  Either you are immersed in the Now, or you are aware of time itself.   Motorcycle touring teaches you how to feel comfortable in the void.  Some call it Freedom while some call it Meditative - same thing.   The earth, before humans, was a vast empty canvas, living outside of time, with its simple laws of nature.  No concept of history.  Life and death - that's it.  And all the dangers in living.  That is when the thoughts come in to fill the void.  What we perceive as dangerous, or hard, tells us a lot about ourselves and each other.  Can we become comfortable in the perceived danger we face ?  A confident "Mountain Man" with one noble objective: physical survival in nature....