The trail of time

Could have said it's been to long or I've been to busy. Truth, there just was no writing. The rides have happened. Lots of good rides. Adventures on the road. Animal life, car life, road life, and all that a ride has to give. Everything about the void in the blog is just an excuse. I did not write. It is a hard habit to let go of. A hard discipline to keep going, and I'm a poor writer. So to the truth of it. The truth of the blog. I will start again.
There has been more cold weather than warm. The end of May was filled with clouds and cool days. The end of May had a few warm days of shorts and short sleeve jersey'to. Weather still a dominate force. May and it still felt like late winter. La' Nana is still got it's grip on the NorthWest. A weather pattern that brings cold in all ways, both land and water. There's a lot of sea water up here. The sea that drives most of the weather. The result of La' Nana is cold. I have been through 2 or 3 of these weather events in 38 years. One La' Nana year there was only one month of warm weather and that was July. Eleven of the other months were dark, wet, and cool. That's what I think we face this year in the NorthWest. It's hard for me to keep the faith. I have missed 3 rides in the last 10 days. On top of not feeling great. Cool wet weather, for the most part, makes the road so hard to face. The one place, effort that this body and soul needs. The effort that keep me strait and healthy. Strait in my mind. Healthy in my body. This effort is hard to face right now. Hard to put the uniform on. Hard to mount the bike. A sigh as I look down the road on a cool and wet day. I hunger for the sun. The warmth of the true summer sun. It will come soon enough. Brilliant and warm. I have no way to know this, but the sun will only be here for a short season. Than it is wet winter riding again. The balance between warm and cool will be off, way off. The mind is weak right now. The only way to make my mind strong again is to ride the road and say the prayers. The prayers of the long road.
The road I have seen has been very different. Quiet from the noise of cars, trucks and motorcycles. A quiet in the smaller back roads I ride 1000s of miles on. Less traffic on these back roads in a noticeable way. The small selfish gift of high gas and fuel prices. High prices with no end in the upward spiral. Food or gas? Gas or rent? Still, at $4.33 the cost of gas here is half that of most of the world. We are spoiled to cheap gas as experts have said. Not for long! Gas prices will reach heights we can only tremble over. Small cars will help in the short term to this long term question. Where is the electric car? No burning fuel will be the long term answer. No primitive fire will solve the problem. It will be "Tesla" to the rescue. Ideas from a man now dead over 50 years. The father of usable electricity. It will be Tesla's ideas of 100 years ago. These electric ideas will save the world from it's fire pit caveman days. Fire has had it's day in the car. Batteries will be the next gas tank. The next J.D. Rockefeller the inventor of the new battery or high out put electric energy storage device. All this recharged for the time being by fuel burning electric generating plants, connected to the "grid". Far more efficient use of oil, coal, and nuclear till wind, solar hydro power take over. It's going to happen and it will happen much faster than we all think. I guess I'm optimistic. It is the empty back roads that I see the near future. Fuel that will reach $8.00. The same price Europe pays! I want my electric car.
So the road goes on. The efforts comes and goes. Some days easy and some days a struggle. Weather a compaion, welcome, or just put up with. Ideas of an old hero. I see his vision. I'm a little slow about Tesla. Then he was dead about the time I was 3? Any way Tesla was not a school course in my school days. He should have been. His truth is coming fast. Faster than anyone can see. The batteries, energy saving devices, or very near. Just wait and see, "the future is now".