Believe it or not, I’ve never owned a bicycle. Sad but true. Growing up, I think my parents worried I would run away from home and they were probably right. Yesterday I photographed this bike at Finn Slough just a stone’s throw from home. I think I made this image because for the last few weeks I’ve had a growing urge to run away and have a life on the road. I don’t know how much longer I can hold out.
I know all about that feeling. Mine’s nearing breaking point, but have to tell myself to hold out, good thing are worth waiting for, etc etc.
I haven’t seen a basket on the front of a bicycle in the longest time!
LOL you my dear have really started something with your talk of tugboats and being at sea. Seems it’s infectious. Maybe we should blame it all on Flemming!
I’ve been wanting to run away to sea since I was 18. But if I’d done that I might have never found you to this wonderful blog, so there are benefits to not following one’s hormonal teenage heart
But yeah it’s all Flemming’s fault for setting an example
There are many of us who have such dreams and some who have taken the steps to go there. Lots of exciting adventurers are possible when we take on traveling as way of living, as long as we are not running away. And, of course you will document this journey for us in your images and writing.
I have a bicycle in storage back home and sure do miss riding it. It’s great for the environment and our health. Have an awesome day!
Don’t worry Monte “run away” in this case is not a bad thing. It’s about the compulsion to be doing something other than what I’m doing now in my lived life. To be living my passion instead. It really is just a metaphor. I think I was being melodramatic when I wrote this late last night as some stories tend to be
Never owned a bike…that is sad, Sabrina. I rode for hours and hours as a child during summer vacations. Now mind you I don’t think any of my bikes were every new. My parent never had extra money when I was growing up so “good used” was a term well known in our family, but I never cared.
I do like this photo…hidden in the bushes and vines waiting for it’s owner to grab the handlebars, throw a leg over and off it goes.
A lot of people “run away” to discover later they’d packed their problems/issues and brought them with them. You know, “a life on the road” could describe an attitude about living life — open, adventuresome, and acknowledging with awareness and a sence of newness each of those things you experience.
But it’s true we also sometimes need to make major changes externally. I’ve had those moments too. Take care!
Here’s the thing Earl, I do know how to ride a bike because I was not a child who’d take no for an answer. So while I didn’t have hours and hours riding a bike but I always had friends who’d let me borrow their bikes. It just wouldn’t have been good if I had decided to explore the open road with their bike and never return with it!
I’m thinking now that my use of the term “run away” was probably not a good choice of words. Blame it on Charlene who was talking about it the other day, only in her case it was to sea
Hey I would like to go on a very long photoshoot . . . like several years.
You mean like you’re doing, Carolyn?
There are many times indeed when I’ve wanted to do exactly that. Okay, so what would you do if someone gave you $10 million?
Well I’d start by giving some of it away and sharing it with my family and friends, especially those who need some new gear and those who’d want to travel somewhere for photography.
After that I’d set up some kind of foundation to help people (probably education-based) and then I’d take a small piece of the pie for me to travel the world to tell stories with my camera and to write about it. A little predictable perhaps and if I took more time to think about it, I would come up some other ideas. $10M is a lot of dough!
Okay, so I needed to be more specific . . . grin . . . AFTER you did the things with the money that would come from being the good citizen that you are, is what I meant.
$10 mil is not as much as you might think; it’s like the old Han Solo line . . .
Well Ray and I do have an idea but it’s not yet baked so I don’t want to talk about it in case it never sees the light of day or the $10M never shows up
I’m sensing that you have a really good reason for asking me this question. Are you going to spill?
I find this a really charming photograph. I love my bicycle, though it doesn’t get enough road time these days. Have always wanted a very cute bike with a basket like this. Lovely composition… I have the sense I could just pluck it from the bushes and ride away.