I have always wanted to go a motorcycle road trip for the longest time. When I made the transition from Google to Apple in 2021, I was about to purchase a used bike (thanks for the sign-on bonus!). Things changed after that as we were about to move to Riverside CA for the following 9 months, from Sept 2021 to June 2022.
Then, during the night of July 23 2023, I told myself
I want to drive away, so far away, until sunrise. I want to feel the sun on my face and it will light up away the darkness I'm feeling. Fast forward to 2024, toward the end of our journey, I got a bike and I am about to make the deferred plan come true.
Into the cloud
I’ve gone to places where we used to be at, physically, or places where we were, in my imaginations. Inside that helmet, there was no music; there was no podcast. There was only the sound of the wind and the vibration of my own thoughts. When the roads became twisted for miles, I had to shift my focus to where I was going it. When the roads were straighten up, I asked myself.
What am I doing here on this road, by myself? You could have been with me? Quân could have been behind me. There was one weekend, I rode out through the twisties of Livermore and to Sacramento via Highway 160. I stopped at literally dying towns where the silence was deafening, and I thought to myself
I am finding inner peace. Do you? I hope you do because throughout all the years I've always knowns that you would need that peace the most.
We were there sitting on the stairs during the pandemic and the summer of 2020.