Road Therapy 4

[spyderCodes]

We've been to a diner, an unknown road and a favorite road.
There's one last road I'd like to share.
It's not really any single road, but here in deep summer it might just provide the best Road Therapy of all.

It's the middle of the night, pre dawn runabout.

Yes, around here you have to look out for deer and bears.
Bears are always a bonus.
I've seen either a lot of bears or the same bear a lot of times.

It works like this.
Sometimes I can't sleep.
Around 3:30 AM I can be really wide awake.

When the night is humid and the moon bright, I like to sneak down to the garage and start Pugsly, the F3.

The massive amount of light firepower and the mean, throaty sound of Pugsly in that
nether time, makes the mere act of driving up the driveway a statement.

I'm tooling over completely different roads than the daytime.
The light fog and moonlight transform them into something almost magical.
The lights illuminate things I never saw in the daylight.

Hmmm, when did my neighbor put up that shed?
The thing I thought was a single long bridge is actually two separate ones.

The deer are feasting on another neighbor's garden.
Do I wake him up and tell him? Drive through his garden to chase the deer?
Such philosophical questions will have to be pondered some other time.

About an hour and half of this kind of Road Therapy is usually enough to set the world, if not right, at least back in equilibrium.


Road Therapy 1
Road Therapy 2
Road Therapy 3

[Bob Denman]

At 3:30 am: I'm normally checking my eyelids for pinholes...
But I do dream about rides like yours!

[murphybrown]

Hmmmmm guess I'll try the taking my Red Stallion out and seeing how "frisky" he is at that wonderful time of day. Got the deer...some say bears and wolves, but best I get besides deer are mountain sheep, rattlesnakes and raccoons..but all that is gooooood. Yep gotta try the early morning run!!! Thanks for tweaking my curiosity Roger...

[ARtraveler]

That is something that I have not done. Summer provides us with a couple months of no complete darkness--just the dusk part. Maybe, I will give an early AM ride a try. I can see that it would be a time for "magic" to happen.

[PrairieSpyder]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to try that some morning. About the only time I'm up at that hour is when my dog, Fancy, decides she needs another bathroom run after all. I wonder if I could stay awake long enough to get dressed and go for a ride.

[Bob Denman]

Ride in your PJs; who's gonna see you?

[Chupaca]

You nailed it....There are all kind of wonders out there at those hours (you are talking about country ryding).Cause in the city it's a whole differenct sight.... Love leaving in the pre-dawn hours to watch the sun rise and giving myself longer rest stops along the way..