Zen Moments
Slow Down!
This last weekends’ rides told me I needed to back up and take a new look at how I am doing my rides. I need to get out of the “gotta get there” mentality and see my destinations as the turn-around point rather than the endpoint for my rides. It is a subtle difference, but one that changes the entire point of the ride.
The whole point of a ride is the journey along the way. The destination is just another place along that journey.
Looking Back
I took my first ride way back in January. January 2nd, actually. It was a 10 minute ride around a parking lot and to the Home Depot. It was cold, damp and miserable out. But I loved every shivery second of it. I had been wanting a motorcycle for a long time, and never thought I would actually get one. I always had a reason not to get one. This year, to hell with it, I decided to finally pull the trigger. It has been a ride ever since – pun intended.
Deep Dreams
So there is this neural net image processor backed by Google running some processes on uploaded images. I am not getting into the full background. Mainly because I don’t have time to read and fully understand it right now. Short story, upload your photo and it spits back the LSD tripping version. See below for a side-by-side. Follow this link to create your own “Deep Dream: http://psychic-vr-lab.com/deepdream/
Excited and Nervous
Coming up in 3 days (Wednesday) I leave out on my longest (time and distance) trip yet. This is something that I have been looking forward to for a long time now (pretty much since I got the bike). I have been going over what to pack and what to leave, and even with all the planning, I know I will find myself leaving something behind. But as excited as I am, I am also nervous. I will be traveling solo for over 7 hours (one way) which is a lot (over 350 miles). I did have Raven in for her 4000 mile service, so everything is adjusted, fluids swapped, critical systems checked and verified. Raven is ready, time for me to get ready.
Adventures of Raven 
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