The Time Hath Come
The time has come, the Walren said, To talk of many things: of shoes—toe clips—and touring racks, of baggages, and what to bring.
Yes, the Jaredwocky and I are finally getting ready to GTFO of Florida on our bicycles. It requires more preparation than you might think. You must understand, in the world of Walren things are not as they appear through the LCD.
For example, some of our loyal readers might be tempted to incorrectly assume that we are prepared to tour at all times. After all, didn’t we sell EVERYTHING back in December ’08?
The other day, our friend Neil messaged me asking, “Are you still bicycle monks?” Ha! ha. ha. If you could see our piles of stuff to sort through you would understand the irony here.
Right now our room is a cesspool of our stuff. It has been tossed around, organized, then sorted through and tossed around again…but just like that Texas-sized island of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean, none of this shits going anywhere except around and around in the gyre. The question remains- WTF are we going to do with all of this stuff?
We are definitely not liberated from our earthly possessions. In fact, we can’t even shove them in the back of a closet like you do, so on a certain level we are more held down than most. I’ve been a hoarder of oddities and things all my life, and to an extent Jared is too. Most of the stuff we elected to keep with us in the process of “getting rid of everything” is absurd yet somehow irreplaceable.
The next order of business is making some dough before we go. Jared set off to work today with his Pa on a faux painting gig, and there should be some bigger jobs on the way that I can help out on too in the next coupla weeks. Ideally we’d be leaving for tour sooner, but we have no money!
Then we’ll be back on the road. The plan is to ride up through the Appalachians and go as far as we please before winter forces us to stop. Or maybe we won’t ride that way. Lately we seem to be full of ideas for epic adventures that are not being fully realized…so you’ll just have to wait and see!
P.S.- A lot of people have been complaining about how crappy our blog is lately. Jared is bothered. I on the other hand, don’t really give a rat’s ass. I’m not gonna keep saying it will get better. It might not! Bwahahah!!!
-L
(We are planning on setting off in early October. -J)
Well after that pure moods I think this blog is headed back down hill. On the other hand the “No Parking On the Dance Flo” is definitely the kind of bread and butter that this blog needs more of if anybody is going to be winning anything. It would really be nice if we could get just one full month sometime before Christmas of you guys on the road doing weird shit with roadkill and eating garbage and camping where ever you please and watching Lars feathers get ruffled and then get unruffled etc. Like that time back in Louisiana when you guys were riding over those gawd awful bridges at night and got lost and things got crazy but then everything turned out OK and you guys made it. I think you guys are getting a little more awesome now that we are into Sept and I sure do hope to see some kind of spike by Oct. Keeping fingers crossed big time. C’mon guys.
Alright- since nobody who read the Pure Moods post seems to get it I’ll just go ahead and tell you- it was intended to be funny. The post resulted from a night where Jared and I were high and decided to watch 90s New Age music videos. How the hell anyone thought that we seriously like that stuff is the funniest part of all of it all.
Well, the blog is suffering a bit right now I’ll admit. If things could have gone our way- we’d just now be returning from an epic canoe voyage down the Suwannee and rantin’ and ravin’ about all the crazy shit we saw along the way. But sometimes things don’t go your way and you have to just deal it.
We are leaving October 2nd. We are riding north.
Man this blog is crappy! Nice try though.
Okay,
Ive followed both of your CGOB journals and Im stoked about the next one. Been silent until now, Lets go!
Textoad
hi textoad-
glad to see people comin out of the woodwork.
i know it’s a really shameful scene around here…but we are glad to know that some people are taking an interest. sorry- it’s gonna happen we just need to make a buck or two and get our butts in gear.
I think the nannerpuss should go as well. If the ship doesn’t sail. Then it should sunk.
i like the blog, bicycle touring or not. it’s like checking your myspace page, except no one uses myspace anymore.
this is MY space!! GTFO!
I don’t have to work too much thanks to Pure Moods ™.
Just quit teasing us with the possibility of great adventure and get on with it already.
We never said anything about it being great mickey