I have been fortunate to travel fairly frequently. And while I always enjoy going to different places, far and near, abroad and within the US for some reason I stopped getting excited before trips. You know that feeling when you are anxious to go, can’t wait for the day to come, counting days, hours, minutes? Well this feeling was long gone for me. I am not sure when and how I had relinquished it. But what I do know is that this feeling of excitement was gone for quite some time now.

Tomorrow Motodisiac, myself and one of our friends (for future reference we shall call him Capoross) will embark on a short motorcycle trip to Northern Baja, Mexico. It is the very same trip that got canceled earlier this month. Except this time I am not out of town and I am joining my friends. The bikes have been prepared, our riding gear has been acquired specifically for this trip, luggage has been squared away, our route has been uploaded into the newly acquired Garmin. And tomorrow afternoon, on Friday October 10, we will begin our journey going South from Los Angeles, crossing the border via Calexico, then down to San Felipe, Gonzaga bay. Then we will cross over to the Pacific side of Baja peninsula and come back up to cross the border back into the US probably in Tecate. We are scheduled to get back home on Monday night. The whole trip should be around 1000 miles in approximately 3 days of riding.

The whole reason I brought it up is simply this - I am really excited. Probably for the first time in the last 4 or 5 years I am genuinely excited and can’t wait till we kick off our trip. What happened to me? I can’t quite figure out…

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