In Your Survival Guy and Gal’s kitchen, under the cabinets, hangs a small picture that tells a big story.
It’s of the late owner of the Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound holding a net full of lobsters freshly steamed and ready to be cracked and dipped into warm melted butter and washed down with an ice-cold beer.
I see it every morning and night, and it hits me every time, taking me back to the future as if it were yesterday. It was late spring when we spent a long weekend in Bar Harbor, Maine, and this is where we went to lunch and ran into Your Survival Gal’s parents, Dick and Debbie, and her aunt and uncle while on one of their many motorcycle trips.
You may wonder, “Didn’t you guys spend enough time together?” and we did, but to see them in their biking gear away from home and then later, walking to dinner together and talking about their trip, it is something I’ll never forget.
Because whether on a motorcycle on the road or anchored at one particular harbor, stuff always seems to happen. There’s always something to fix and figure out, and much like life, there’s always a to-do list. But when you’re on the road, that “to-do list” back home will have to wait. The road is calling.
And it doesn’t need to be traveled on a Harley, although I read yesterday that the company is making entry-level Sportsters available for $10k. But you don’t need to throw on your leathers and hit the open road to experience life: Aren’t those new Corvettes nice looking?
Action Line: Get out there. Hit the open road. Getting back home never felt so good, but you made another deposit to the bank of memories. Tell me about your latest adventure, or the one you’ve got planned. Email me at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com. And click here to subscribe to my free monthly Survive & Thrive letter.
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