For the first time in many years, I am looking forward to Christmas!!!
Usually by this time I am so sick of all the music, and advertisements coupled with the dark and cold that I feel really down and depressed, I am hating the world… Here the season seems to have snuck up on me..  It might have to do with the lack of build up ..they just lite the tree in the town square last night … 1 week before the day.
As well I have planned an interesting trip.
I will be riding my bike up the eastern ( The Orient or Amazonian) side of the mountains, then cutting across the continental divide via Banos to the coast. Â It is a 12 hour trip that I will spread over 3 or 4 days. Â My bike, being chinese and indian, can only really run for 2 hours ( I have been told) Â before it needs to cool down. Â This will a nice leisurely trip with plenty of rest stops. Â I am also taking the scenic route which should be safer for someone with my experience level.
Of course my rest stops will be places that I can wander with my camera.
I will then be staying with a friend on the coast… a former english teacher who has retired to live on the beach, where she can walk her dog for miles on the sand and watch the sunsets over the pacific… her days are as busy as she wants them to be…. a nice way to live.
Since I have until the new year off, but I need to get back to take care of Buster ( letting someone else take care of him for a week or so is OK… 2 weeks… asking a lot) Â my return trip will also be leisurely, but my time in the sand will be short… just a couple of days.
Merry Christmas
