AIDS/LifeCycle Day 4

Paso Robles to Santa Maria

Pardon the grainy picture. This was taken with a rickety old Motorola flip phone in what we thought was the space age. This was taken in Guadalupe, in the midst of the INSANE winds we rode through. I rode through the same area ten years later with my homeboy Dru, pedaling from SLO to Santa Babylon. Parts were a dystopian industrial farmscape. Then tony boutiques and coffee houses a few miles on.

It’s funny reading back through these and remembering what a big part of my whole cycling process smoking was; just meditating on the promise of that next lung full of poison to get me over the literal next hill. I quit for good in April of 2013. The thought of rewarding myself with burning garbage is puzzling now.