But I Can't Forget The Creek

Even though I will not be heading to Pennsylvania in August, I am not forgetting Pine Creek. What started the whole process of thinking about the bike trip was thinking about a memoir/book on what I call the Four Waters that have bounded and filled my life these past 60 years. Three of them are in north central Pennsylvania. The fourth is in northern Minnesota. I have been playing with this idea for well over a year now. I started journaling about it over a year ago and then got stuck.

In many ways Pine Creek is the most foundational of the four waters so I thought about how I could fulfill a dream of traveling the whole length of the creek. Who knows, though. It may be that the book is not to get written or it is to get written without the trip happening yet. And perhaps it is time to leave the creek behind and just start writing. That takes a lot of discipline and focus. I have shown that I can have a strong personal writing discipline with this blog. After all I am nearing 2300 posts and I have been making at least one post for nearly 3 full years. (Since 8/15/05 to be exact.)

So, the bike hike in Pennsylvania isn't the purpose for this summer. It may be just to roll along and see what I can see and discover what it means to be 60 where I am today, not where I used to be. That seems to be the direction that life goes, anyway.