REALITY CHECK TOUR 2022: FL - MD/PA - New England - Nova Scotia - Quebec - MI/WI/IA - CO - FL


 

Without this sense of what is naturally fitting, you can be cleaning up the world with one hand and spreading poison with the other ... this sense of rightness does not appear naturally in people, even though they live in the heart of nature.

Custom is the enemy of awareness, in individuals as much as in societies.  It regularizes the fears and cravings of everyday life ...

Ted Simon, Jupiter's Travels (1979)


This year I will be taking my final North American motorcycle tour.  It will be a long one (approx. 10,000 miles).  I will spare you from the daily journaling, and will write/publish an account on a weekly basis.  Next year, and years following, I anticipate taking a tour of Australia and Europe - Looking for the World, a Listening Tour.  Of course, that is, if I am physically able.

What I have learned over the past 5 years is that many people are predisposed to believe almost anything.

I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles such are promises.  
All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon & Garfunkel (The Boxer)

It all boils down to is this: who do you Trust? - and Why?

Roll back the freedoms that we struggled for
What were those freedoms for?
Let's not talk about it any more
Roll out the drums of war.

Whatever you believe the necessary course to be
Depends on who you trust to identify the enemy

Jackson Browne, Drums of War, Time the Conqueror

And it depends whether the people you trust tell you not to trust others - as if your salvation depends upon resisting all others.

In any event, I look forward to reporting from the frontier.  One-on-one, most people are good and decent.  And, with some trepidation, I embark tomorrow morning - foregoing my habitual customs - to experience what the spirit decides to unveil on the road.







Comments

  1. AnonymousJune 15, 2022 at 6:01 PM

    Safe travels

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  2. AnonymousJune 15, 2022 at 6:39 PM

    Robbie, I will be in MN, WI, MI, OH, NY, MA, ME, NH, and VT between now and Oct. How can I get your itinerary to see if we are anywhere near each other?

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