The best thing about riding without a map is the discovery of places, roads, people and experiences. Somewhere in Wyoming I was traveling along a two lane highway cut into the mountain. The north side went up a rock cliff the south side dropped hundreds of feet down. It was a beautiful sunshine day cruising along the curves no other traffic except for a moose. It is refreshing and yet interesting to be on a road where for an hour or so there is no other traffic one way or the other. We think about how complex and populated our world is and yet for stretches of miles one can be seemingly alone or at least by themselves in this universe. I came about a bend in the road and there standing perpendicular to the highway was a moose. A moose is a majestic creature and all creatures are even more spectacular when you encounter them in the wild. However encountering a 7 foot 1,000 pound animal while on a 200 pound motorcycle is more petrifying than spectacular. There was no way to go around it without possibly spooking the animal. The moose had me outgunned in size and I had to just wait until it decided to move on before I could travel on. It is often difficult to relate this story to others, trying to explain the majestic presence of a moose straddling the highway. We do not think of nature in these terms: we the humans on top of the food chain. We are so used to going to the market and purchasing nature in neatly packaged parcels we forget how foreboding and imposing nature can be. A car is a formidable adversary but a motorcycle is a mere curiosity to a moose. These are things we get to encounter while living the Biker Life.
See you further on up the road...
