Dreaming of a Life Less Ordinary

10/31/2024 – Happy Halloween "Hey man, I think I like being scared And I wish you all were there Man I really, really think, really think That I think I like being scared" - Dangerous Toys, Scared “Scritch, Scritch, Scritching at the door.” The Bounty Man, Into the Badlands (1991). Every year since 2018 or 2019 I have wanted to tell a Halloween tale.  Every year over that time Halloween has come and gone, like a wraith that goes bump in the night and my tale never materializes.   On September 28, 2024, I sat down though, and I started to write a Halloween tale.  I am three thousand five hundred words into that tale but even so, we have just scratched the surface with what I want to tell.  It is something, that I need to spend a lot more time with before I can release it, or any part of it.   Now we have 9 hours still left in Halloween 2024, but I think starting this story and peeling back the onion a little bit has come to make this one of the better Halloweens I can remember

  The Continental 48 and it starts with San Antonio   Sometime shortly after the Dam-to-Dam ride last September, I got to thinking like I normally do, about what it next.  Would I dare to do the RAIN ride?  Would I try another century? Perhaps a ride around ole Gitche Gumee? Did I want to focus on swimming?  Maybe another triathlon? Lots of questions with no real answer.   I settled on wanting to keep riding.  Let my body rest a little bit but keep up the riding.  So, as I sat around looking up rides to do on google, I kept getting hits for rides in Ohio, Kentucky, and even Illinois. I thought why not go try and ride in another state, that could be fun.  I could find a location ride to do in 2025.   I keep thinking about riding in different places.  Then I had a vision of me packing up Nebula and putting the bike on the back and driving to these different locations to ride. I really started to like the idea of going to different rides.  Then the idea came to me.  I am not sure exactly