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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:02 am
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You're not the least bit crazy Hou-Tex looking back 20 years from now wishing you had went for it thats gonna drive you crazy...............now if you'll excuse me I have a time machine I need to invent, should I fail it's slippers, pipe and rocking chair sitting in the garden in front of a Marshall stack and reducing my vocabulary to an occasional YEP to passers-by


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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:56 am
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James Hollis, Jungian analyst wrote "Finding meaning in the second half of life". A very interesting book, not just a compilation of life changing stories. Whatever you do about this bike ride, you shouldn't ignore the call you felt and the state of mind in which it put you in. Good luck.


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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:30 am
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As many gave said, do what you feel is right. As you know there are a lot of motorcycle clubs here in the Houston area. Perhaps you can form your own. All I can say is just think it through before quitting any jobs or losing out on any retirements before your time. Go ahead and purchase a bike if you can and do the weekend motorcycle thing first. Use some vacation time for longer excursions. Hate for you to commit fully to it and not like it.

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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:22 pm
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I hit my first mid-life crisis quite a while back. I was self-employed at the time and when I couldn't take it anymore, I bought this, fixed it up, added the racing stripe and the chrome Hooker headers and sidepipes and took off.

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I came back about a year later after I'd come to my senses, but I still get in my little '74 time machine now and then and dream about the Old Days...

I was never a motorcycle guy, but I really, really love SPEED!

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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:25 pm
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I say go for it ! , I'm 2 years older than you , and have done the harley thing for 30 years , done the corvette thing 3 times , done many other things , you only live once , oh wait , am I crazy too ?


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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:55 pm
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CRguitarman, that is an awesome stingray ,
Totally love the blue.
Now I'm Corvette acquisition syndrome hurting!!

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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:56 pm
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Have you read the book Ghost Rider By Neil Peart of Rush? He did exactly what you are wishin to do except he did it because of the loss of his daughter Selena and wife Jackie and needed a break from life.Major mid-life crisis.It is an awesome read and I highly recommend it.He started, I believe in Canada and rode all through the U.S. down to South America and back through the U.S. I want to say he rode like 55,000 miles in just under a years time.It was actually one of the best books I have ever read.I know now why and how Neil writes the lyrics he writes for the band.check it out....you won't be disappointed
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I'm 54 years old, and I'm tired. I'm tired of working for the same old company, and just bored in general. I have done many things in my life and did well at it, but I think I'm reaching the age to where I need to fulfill my life's dream before I get too old.

I think I have a lot of common sense, and what I'm thinking of makes no sense at all.

I'm thinking of quitting my job, selling everything I own, pulling all of my money out of my 401ks and yea, take the tax hit, buying a motorcycle and just ride. I'm thinking heading through Baja and eventually end up in Argentina during the winter next year, and then head north to Alaska during the summer.

I have enough saved to live for 4-5 years and I keep reading these riding reports on this forum that just makes me feel like a caged animal.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2

I think there comes a point in life, where you have to make a hard choice based on the time you have left. Some call it a "Bucket List" and some question the intelligence of doing something so radical while they sit on the couch watching American Idol.

If I don't do this by the end of the year, it's my goal to start in 2014.

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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:28 pm
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At least go ahead and buy the bike. I'm supprised you don't own one already. Try it on for size. Go off on a week's vacation. You can only take what you can strap on the bike. Live in a tent. Then make your decision. Want to live like that the rest of your life? Yes? Then get those motors running!

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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:32 pm
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Scarleg, that sounds like a great read. Also watch the movie
"motorcycle Diaries" that is a great movie, and story.

Hou-TEX you can also try the BP MS-150 from Houston to Austin,tx
I did It 2006&2007, great experience, when you finish, you have
a huge sense of accomplishment.
But a Harley sounds great. You can take on our Texas rally's
Theres the one in Austin and south padre island .

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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:55 pm
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Smokin' Frets wrote:
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Live your dreams but think further than just 4 - 5 years!
You need some financial security for your older ages!

The Dalai Lama didn't have to work to put food on the table for his kids.

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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:56 pm
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mhowell wrote:
The Dalai Lama didn't have to work to put food on the table for his kids.


You didn't get it, I'm afraid. :roll:
He didn't say DO NOT GO TO WORK. Please, read again. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:55 am
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Ceri wrote:
Hi Hou-Tex: I don't know what the point is of being alive if you don't follow instincts like this to see, do and feel as much of what the world has to offer as you can fit in. If the universe was put there for anything it's gotta be for being experienced, right?

So go. Do.

...Though I also think what other guys are saying is right. No sense blowing the rest of your life out the water if you can help it. I'm only a little younger than you: we know we've passed the halfway point in life, but we may well have decades still ahead of us, and we don't want to jeopardise them if we can help it. So think ahead. Have some reaslistic idea of what you'll do when you get back.

I know a guy who did just about exactly what you're talking about, taking a couple of years to bike down through South America. Absolutely brilliant, by all accounts. Still, he's a successful chef, and that's a job you can walk back into later without much difficulty, which is what he did. He was responding to the call of the wild but he wasn't acting crazy.

Also. If you want to travel in the hope that some unforeseeable and fabulous thing comes along to take your life in a whole new direction - well that is a bad reason to set out, because it is extremely likely not to happen. Travel is fabulous but it's not about finding answers and fixing problems or holes in your life. You do that by addressing problems face on, not by hoping a journey is somehow going to do it for you.

I've travelled a heck of a lot. I've visited over 40 countries, most of them several times, a majority for months at a time. It's great: you learn so much about other places, other people, and about yourself and where you come from. And sunrise through the mist on mountain tops - yadda yadda, all that stuff. But what you don't do is have some huge spiritual awakening, and if that is what you're looking for - it probably ain't going to work out.

I've encountered numerous people wandering the world looking for... something - and I've noticed they almost never find it. It's the wrong reason to travel.

So while you're thinking about what happens after the journey, just check up on your motivations too. It's quite important.

Best wishes - C


Sweet jesus thats some good advice, how about we just set up an ask ceri, column somewhere on this site, where we can all go to the big man for advice? Im thinking of consulting the oracle of Ceri before every big life decision from now on :D

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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:58 am
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If you have a "bucket list" , better start emptying it.

You don't want to be on your death bed saying "I shoulda..."

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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:19 am
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I can't seem to get back to the original post to quote it, but "...my life's dream" was all I needed to hear. I say do it.

I don't know if you have read Joseph Campbell, but he once wrote that people should do things to give their lives meaning rather than desperately searching for some sort of innate meaning to life. If this is truly your life's dream, then it would certainly seem to be something that would add meaning to it.

That being said, I think you should try to do it without bankrupting yourself. But I definitely think you should take the trip. It sounds like it would be really good for the soul.

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Post subject: Re: I think I'm going crazy.
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:22 am
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tyronne wrote:
If you have a "bucket list" , better start emptying it.

You don't want to be on your death bed saying "I shoulda..."


+10^10 Damned right.

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