You may have noticed that is has been a while since we made a post, actually a little over 10 days. When we started this site, we had the intention to post frequently, if not daily. But when death enters your life, it has a way of changing your plans. We had a death in the family this last week.

In a strange sort of way, the death of a family member has a way of causing you to rethink what’s really important. And this site is important to us because we originally started it to be a collection of blogs from our travels around the country on our motorcycles. It was back on April 5 that the seed of this journey first started to germinate and it was on April 10 over breakfast with Ronn that it was finally revealed to me. By the end of April, I was unveiling my intentions and making them known to everyone.

Since then, I got my motorcycle license, sold my car and we started this site. Many have been asking when I am leaving, where I am going, why haven’t I started yet? And the answer is “I don’t know”. I have recently been on a “60-day challenge” with my own business, which is like feeding your business a power bar every day for 60 days. It has turned out to be part of the plan because the flow of my business is sort of like a pipeline and this challenge has helped me to load the front of my pipeline, so that I have enough business moving through it to be able to venture out on this journey. I will be coming up on the close of my challenge in the next few weeks and beyond that, the next step in preparing for my journey has not yet been revealed to me. I know it’s germinating because I can feel it, but it has not revealed itself in the form of a next step.

In some ways, this journey, although I have not “officially” hit the road yet, has been a sort of treasure hunt. And shouldn’t all of our lives be a treasure hunt? I mean really, if we all know death is the end result no matter what we do, doesn’t it make sense to live this life fully–not recklessy, but fully. Fully in the willingness to seek the treasures life has in store for us. Sometimes, just the willingness to seek our own personal treasures is life changing. Even if the journey never takes me where I think I am going, just the willingness has made all the difference.

I am often reminded of Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there
Has worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.

Don’t let the treasures life has in store for you pass you by. Seek them with earnest as you would if you were on a real treasure hunt. After all, isn’t your life the “realest” treasure hunt you will ever go on?

-Lisa