Where Am I?
Working, that's where I am.
I've started to more fully realize that this journey is a lifestyle, rather than a vacation or a trip with a specified endpoint. This was the plan from the beginning...otherwise, I wouldn't be carrying all the gear I need to make working from the road viable. But it's taken me awhile to figure out what that actually entails: work - being the activity that makes me a bit of money and thus keeps body, soul, and trike together - is something I need to be making room for as I travel, instead of squeezing it in here and there.
That means that stopping here in Christiansburg for a several days, instead of just one or two, is an appropriate action, rather than a delay or an interruption. For the next several months, this is what I do: pedal from place to place, work on my small projects, post to the website. I don't have a pre-defined end date, just a destination. If I've got work to do, I find a place with three-prong sockets and a desk and I do the work.
Having decided that makes it easier for me to focus on the tasks at hand, instead of being distracted by the expense of a motel room and the feeling that I really should be on the trike pedaling and sweating.
As always, I'm fascinated, if I do say so myself, by the "technology" of the mind: a deliberate and willful shift in perspective reduces anxiety, promotes productivity, and generally makes me more comfortable. (Up in the sky! It's: Captain Obvious!!!) This perspective shift will come in handy when it's time to start writing articles for magazines and so forth.
Now: back to work.
