The current list of things to do before we leave is getting smaller and that is always a good thing. I need to install backrest on my seat. I need to pickup Lori’s new jacket. I need to order reserve fuel tanks. I need to go ahead and make first week’s motel reservations and complete Memorial Weekend reservations. I need to find or purchase a new under armour ski mask that I use for cold riding for under my helmet. Finally make the decision on buying Mark a new helmet that is quieter, lighter, and more comfortable than my current HJC.
In the past few weeks that have passed, I have been getting a gut feeling that Lori was either getting to nervous for this trip or really deep down didn’t want to go. I just could not put my finger on it. I realized that it is going to long, hard, and we could run into a lot of obstacles. Mark has a bucket list and not much fear and I would hate to impose myself of her or anyone else for that matter when it comes to a trip like this. So tonight I just blurted out the question point blank the best I could trying not to be to insensitive. “I want you to go on this trip as I always do, but I do not want you to go just because I want to make this long trip. I want to make sure that you are not scared, intimidated, or insecure that we can do it or make it. I will make this trip alone as you said I was going to have to do when I decided to go to Alaska.”
Well that offended her that I willing to go on a vacation without her and somehow I knew that was going to happen. But inside, I feel better knowing that I at least addressed the question and gave her the power to make her own decision to go or not. Lori say’s she is going.
So all is good in the world. Now back to planning.
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