It's Time
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: 2008

It has been ten years since I participated in the 1998 GTE Big Ride Across America to benefit the American Lung Association.  In the intervening years, I have survived two major depressions, written a book-length manuscript about the Big Ride, had a wedding with my husband on Orcas Island, moved from Seattle to North Carolina, completed three sprint distance triathlons and one half-marathon, become a mom to the most adorable American Hairless Terrier on the planet and an aunt to three of the sweetest kids I've ever met, and struggled always to get back to the person I felt I was on the Big Ride.

Recently, after several years of avoidance, I have begun writing again.

And what do you think I'm writing about?  Yes, the Big Ride.  I can't seem to help it.  I sit down to write and what pours out of me is the search to find my Big Ride self.  The happy, self-confident, patient, trusting, self-sufficient, peaceful, loving, PRESENT self that I could be...if I could just figure out how to find her in the midst of all of the other busy, noisy, demanding parts of my "real life."

So this summer, I have determined once and for all to find my true Self and bring her home.  Ten years is long enough to wait.  This blog will chronicle my journey and flash back to the journey I took in 1998.

I hope you'll come along for the ride!