May. 8th, 2006

Tandem!

May. 8th, 2006 11:12 am
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This time last week, we did not own a tandem bicycle, and my only real ride of the season had been a 25-mile solo round trip a few weeks ago. Last Monday, my last day at home before going back to work, [livejournal.com profile] dilletante and I had a harebrained scheme.

100 miles )
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Because I was reminded of it by [livejournal.com profile] fanw, I will remind you all of Song of the Open Road:



I think heroic deeds were all conceiv’d in the open air, and all great poems also;
I think I could stop here myself, and do miracles;
(My judgments, thoughts, I henceforth try by the open air, the road;)
I think whatever I shall meet on the road I shall like, and whoever beholds me shall like me;
I think whoever I see must be happy.

[...]

I inhale great draughts of space;
The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.

I am larger, better than I thought;
I did not know I held so much goodness.

[...]

Allons! be not detain’d!
Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen’d!
Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn’d!
Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.

Mon enfant! I give you my hand!
I give you my love, more precious than money,
I give you myself, before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?

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