1) Pick a destination: forward.
2) Obtain a roadmap: experiences vs. unknowns.
3) Choose routes: 70 mph?, Yosemite and Grand Canyon?, visits to kindergarten buddy and sisters?, downhill and straight highways?, rocky, wet, overgrown, unmaintained? known roads and pre-mapped courses?
4) Organize gear: money, map, car, bike, foot, phone, bedding, food, water, friend.
5) Take action: take a step.
…….. 1) Choose a Destination:
now
Photo: J.T.Giese
Oh, I wish I were anticipating a trip. Would be lovely...
ReplyDeleteheading out tomorrow evening for a weekend with my wife...
ReplyDeletePiles of stones are flourishing all over blogland - am I missing something? The picture is peautiful, by the way, thank you! :)
ReplyDeleteI surely will do that sometime! Thanks for the advice ;)
ReplyDeleteway to go! i wanna go to venice........
ReplyDelete1) pick a destination and wander aimlessly without plan until you get there. Thanks for reminding me.
ReplyDeleteDear one, are you out beating the bush? Your journey didn't include our poetry reading night. You were silent and missed.
ReplyDeleteThe persimmon poem was so delicious, and I am jealous of that tree. Such a pretty thing to see in winter.
The patients poem is exquisite.
You're thought of.
Very well posed, Dianne!
ReplyDelete... sometimes, simply taking 'a first step' into and toward that unknown, (though perhaps containing certain hazards of which to be aware) can be a most rewarding journey!
first steps
into yesterday's darkness
sunrise
_m
We may travel along a path, but until the mind sets upon that, we will never find the path.
ReplyDeleteThat last line is good. Strong. It's a command. I unthinkingly obeyed. It just popped into my head. And it was Liverpool.
ReplyDelete"Hello mum."