LAST WEEK WE HIT 2,500 MILES!
A week or so ago we got an email from someone we met in Colorado, it made us really happy:
'...Thanks again for doing what you are doing. You both are such an inspiration and meeting you has given me new hope and a better perspective on things in my own life. I am a romantic at heart and your traveling together has to be one of the coolest, sweetest and seriously romantic things I have heard of in long time...'
Here's a clunky sentiment to express: there are days when its hard to justify to ourselves what exactly we’re doing. There’s no ‘cause’. We’ve got careers to figure out. We’re spending money that might be put to more sensible use elsewhere. Lives are on pause. WHY are we on this little expedition? I don’t even fully know: just to Do It and see stuff and to maybe find an awesome place to live... Almost feels like we need some justification. But then we get an email like this and it’s a reminder that simply the act of doing something for the sake of itself can be cause enough; doing something challenging and basic can inspire and excite others in a way you never could’ve expected. We’ve encountered such overwhelming and consistant enthusiasm since the moment we set out that its begun to feel like its own reason to pedal... Making people excited feels pretty amazing. Your happy is our happy. Our happy is your happy. Marinating in good vibes, upping the overall positive-life-experience quotient, THAT is cause enough.