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Good gravy, I am tired. Yet invigorated at the same time. I was going to take a pass on this writing class since things are a bit tight financially but I am glad I didn’t. I get to hang out with some interesting people and meet the interesting characters they are making up. It’s making me kinda wanna write some fiction.

One of the things we were asked to do for tonight’s writing class was to come up with a description of our project. Everyone else took it fairly serious, but I was feeling kind of smartass-y so this is what I ended up with.

This will be a tale of one relationship, two people, five motorcycles, twelve years and thousands of kilometres. It will involve meeting all manner of interesting people, drinking gallons of coffee and eating pie whenever possible. There will be nights spent camping and nights spent in cheap motels while the camping gear stays packed on the bikes. Visits will be made to tacky roadside attractions and breathtaking natural wonders. The weather will be incredibly wet (with anything from a drizzle to a deluge), numbingly cold, unbearably hot, humid, dry, foggy and then back to wet again. It will occasionally feature thunder, lightning, hail and/or snow. Once, maybe twice, it will be utterly, heartbreakingly perfect. There will be wardrobe failures, gear failures and communication failures. There will be breakdowns inside my helmet, breakdowns at the side of the road and a near breakup. But all will be stronger in the end.