With A Billion Stars All Around

I am back tonight in San Benito Texas.  My intention was to do the 2400 miles ride from San Antonio Texas, to my hometown of Virgil in Ontario Canada.  I have been plagued by an old back injury that I aggravated dropping my Harley in a gravel parking lot about 5 weeks ago.  You just don’t stop almost 1,000 lbs. from going where it wants to after it reaches the point of now return.  Especially with my Olive Oyl sized arms.  I started the ride back because I thought the trip was not over yet and would not be until I finished the geographic nicety of going back to where I started.  However, my back had other ideas and started bitching right away about every bump in the road.

So here I am and I will leave the Road Glide here in a safe place and I will fly home in the next couple of days.

Those of you who have followed my blog or who know me personally know that I have been on a journey or quest of self-discovery and, ultimately to meet a kindred female soul to ride with me and to enjoy life with me.  And, together we will reach that place way over yonder and enjoy the sweet tasting good times.  That quest is now over.  I have spent a lot of time with me and I have never been more happy or grounded.  I am very much in touch with myself.  And, at the wedding events this past weekend, I got to spend time with my friend and we connected in the most amazing way.  Yes, the ride is done.  There is no need for geographic niceties to make the ride complete.

How about the wedding some of you are asking.  I can hear it now.  The wedding was delightful.  The bride Deb is a courageous, graceful, and wonderfully grounded woman.  The groom, Kevin, is a wonderful big-hearted person and as a couple they are so happy and content.  Kevin’s smile could not have been bigger without oral surgery than it was on Saturday at the wedding.

The service was beautiful in the gorgeous hill country north of San Antonio.  It was a totally memorable event.  We celebrated their marriage with BON friends and the couple’s family and friends under the light of a near full moon and a blanket of stars filling the sky.  I will never forget the day, the event, and the people.  The BON folks there are like a family and they took me into their group.  The feeling of love and respect was wonderful!  Bikers rock!

As I rode back to San Benito, I went back over the weekend’s events in my mind.  The iPod was turned off.  It was just a day the Harley, the wind, the jukebox in my head and me.  As I played back the images of the bride and groom and their beautiful love for each other, the Eagles Peaceful, Easy Feeling played in my head.

As I played back the memories of my friend and our time together spent deepening our friendship and what I hope will be a lifelong relationship, a new song of my own came to mind.  I am no Don Henley or Glenn Frey but the words did come.

The highway runs before me

To the edges of the sky

My road has been long and lonely

A solo Harley ride

As the dusk begins to gather

At the close of this day

My hopes and dreams unanswered

Do I have the strength to stay

From some far distant mountain

Your voice called out to me

I see the soft light in your window

It guides me on my way

You speak to me in pictures

Fill my soul with peace

As we dance in the moonlight

In the Light of His grace

My quest for me is over

The story has been told

When I look into your sweet blue eyes

I know I have come home

Now some say I have not reached my goal

There are still miles to unfold

But my ride is done the story told

To ride on would be an ego thing

My quest for me is over

The story has been told

When I look into your sweet blue eyes

I know I have come home

My quest for you is over

The story has been told

When I look into your sweet blue eyes

I know I have come home

When I look into your sweet blue eyes

I know I have come home

When I look into your sweet blue eyes

I know I have come home

When I look into your sweet blue eyes

I know I am at home

Peaceful Easy Feeling - The Eagles

Cowgirl in the Sand - Neil Young