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Motorcycling -- "the closest thing to flying without leaving the ground." I call it Land Flight. My spouse calls it...well... crazy. Regardless, it's hard to deny at least the inspirational sense of freedom and spontaneity that emerges when gliding down an old two-lane highway in search of....whatever is there. This site is a companion of the forth-coming Land Flight- IMAGES book and is an homage to the open road, a rider's spirit of adventure, cruising (be it around town or across the country), and to all those baby boomers out there looking to make the years left ahead count. Too often things we really want to do or accomplish in life get set aside for "later" and as far too many have discovered, "later" sometimes never comes. The thing I really wanted to do, my passion, manifested itself in long-distance motorcycle touring but I couldn't step through that door until forced to by uncomfortable circumstance---an abrupt change in my career and livelihood of 24 years. But leading up to that a good while earlier, after I had turned 40, I had already noticed each year passing by more rapidly than the ones before. Suddenly, when it all came down, there I was at the half-century mark asking questions. Is this where I thought I would be at this point in life? Have I really... lived? Or simply existed? Have I tried to fulfill my dreams? Or dozed through them? I wasn't liking my answers. Ultimately whatever it is in life you've dreamed of doing if you had the opportunity "one day", can't begin to be realized until you acknowledge a simple truth: Life is short. So embrace it now. It's not going to wait. This book shows how I came to that realization and what I did about it as I became a mid-life-crisis poster child at 50. LAND FLIGHT A repeating story is recited almost verbatim each weekend at motorcycle dealerships from Maine to California: “I used to have a bike years back, got married, got a job, got rid of the bike. Now, the kids are grown. I've got more ‘me’ time and I want to ride again."
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