We took a ride up to Golden Gate State Park and continued on CO-119 on Saturday. It was a day with really clear skies the color of blue you only see at 8000 feet or more. The wind was blowing the snow off the peaks creating the only clouds in the sky. Tis a priviledge to live in Colorado.
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Back in 2007, Rochelle and I started on the “Pass Bagger 50” award sponsored by the BMW Motorcycle Club of Colorado . To earn the award requires you to ride your motorcycle over 50 passes in the state of Colorado. We started working on this in 2007 and both of us completed in the fall of this year.
If you want to do this, Randy Bishop has a great site with helpful resources to help you plan you ridding
Here is link to Google Maps showing all the passes we have ridden over. Click on any of the markers to see the pictures we took at each pass.
And, you can look at all the pictures of the passes in the order we rode over them on Flicker as well.
David Brooks asked people over 70 to write “life reports” and send them to him. He has posted several on his blog. I find them fascinating.
The stories document our culture over much of the 20th century (at 70, the youngest were born in 1941) as much as they do the experience of living. Their values, challenges, triumphs and observations are rooted in what it is to be human which is a process of continually becoming, not a static goal achieved once and put on the shelf like a trophy.
Those in their 20’s and 30’s may think folks over 70 are near the end of their lives. But none of the writers seem focused on the end as much as they are on the living process of becoming who they are. Despite the bad behavior some confess to, none of them are static, unchanging, nor accepting of the ultimate end, their deaths. Instead, they are actively engaged in writing the next pages and chapters of their lives.
Their stories underscore what I hear in Dylan Thomas’s poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night“.