Excited For Spring

Is it too early write that as a Post Title? I ask because last night I checked the weather, warning that Arctic air will be blowing down onto the Indianapolis area starting today, and there is a "Cold Air Advisory" for the rest of the week. The type of air that bites your skin, making it eerily red instantly, and making you squint your eyes, so as not to lose them.

But I'm here in Florida, and yesterday I sat at the pool reading an article entitled 'Bush Camping: How to Survive 5 years in a Tent.' The article is in the current issue of "Road RUNNER: Motorcycle Touring and Travel." It's reinvigorated my longing for those two-wheeled machines in hibernation in the garage. I'd almost forgotten about them. But I think it's more like repressing them so as not to long so dearly for the coming of Spring.

I can't wait for the first Spring weekend.

Speaking of magazines, the racks are full of hyper-specialized magazines. And that's just the problem with magazines: are any of us really into a specialization that much? Could I really want to read about weight-lifting and how to 'have a bodacious bod by Spring' every three weeks? What about a monthly subscription to read about the latest cars? I won't even mention the political/social clamoring, or the celebrity who-dun-it's.

I guess everyone has ONE special interest, though, and I've found mine.

I could read about possible motorcycle routes, about early morning coffee followed up with leaning into the curves, about places to stop and see, and about the techniques of self-preservation on the road - everyday. Good job, RoadRUNNER, you were a beacon yesterday for me, a perfect fit in the mess that is the magazine rack.