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It could be the winter blues, but I feel the typical 9 to 5 daily grind has to go, at least for a little while. My life has that repetitiveness and monotony going on, and has been that way for some time. Days blend into one another, weeks slip by almost unnoticed, leaving me wondering where the time went and regretting not accomplishing more of what I wanted to do with my life. A new year begins in 14 days, and I don't know where this one has gone. Soon it will be nothing but memories. Far too soon, in fact.

Will next year be any different? Probably not. But next year I do plan to plan and prepare.

The plan: a cross-country trip to Alaska with a few side destinations totalling about 12K miles.
Destinations: up the Dalton to Prudhoe Bay, with stops at Pikes peak, Yellowstone, Glacier NP, and whatever strikes my fancy somewhere along the way to AK.

Those are pretty grand plans for someone who's longest round trip has been 1400 miles. I won't mention the fact that I want to camp most of the way, and I haven't camped in decades, and don't even own any camping equipment. Well, that's where the planning and preparation comes in. I figure I'll use the next year to year and a half accruing the needed equipment and skills needed for two or three months of life on the road. Hopefully I should be able to accrue the funds needed for the trip, also.

I've been dreaming of a trip like this for only a short while, but it's a trip that I need to take just for the experience alone. It's one of those things that seem like it will make one's life experience more complete. I'm sure it will change me in more ways than I can imagine. I suppose two or three months on the road could do that to a person, given the challenges of doing such a trip.

I've come to the conclusion that I may need to sacrifice some things in order to accomplish this goal. It may become necessary to sell off some possessions in order to facilitate this little adventure of mine. Selling my computer, car, and other miscellaneous things isn't out of the question. It's not really that big of a deal. They are only things, and worth much less than the life experience I'll get from a trip of this magnitude.

Life is about the trip, not the destination, just like motorcycling. That's the way we should treat both, and that's what I plan to do fron here on out.