Merry Christmas to you and yours. Merry Chirstmas to my dear friends, my buds, my pals and my aquaintences. Merry Christmas most of all to my family members, my extended family, my Aunts and Uncles. I hope you share this moment with with someone close, someone special and above all with someone you love, for I will be doing that exact thing.
Yup, that’s right! Next weekend Joe and I will be taking a Motorcycle Safety Course as a prelude to purchasing a motorcycle in the near future. The class will be held for 3 days, Friday night, and the majority of Saturday and Sunday. This should be pretty sweet, I’m most excited about it.
Now what am I to do with a motorcycle? Yes, it will allow for me to conserve fuel, and extend the life of my little Honda, but it will also provide me with some adventure after I gained enough experience. I know it’s premature to start these expectations but I got to have something to strive towards, ya know :) I’d love to take my future bike on a long exploration journey. I can see myself teaming up with one or two others on a epic journey across the land exploring lesser traveled roads, enjoying small towns, and sleeping outdoors enjoying God’s country.
To prepare for such a trip would require me to understand much more than how to ride a motorcycle. Being as self sufficient as possible would be a plus. Learning the mechanical aspects of the cycle will take me some time, but I see that as a good thing. Within that time which it would take for me to mechanically 
proficient, I believe I could develop the handling skills to take such a journey. You may be thinking, “Now what type of bike is Lenfu thinking about buying?”. Well, here it is…. Kawasaki KLR 650. It’s a great choice, it’s not expensive, parts are readily available everywhere (I do mean everywhere), there are so many aftermarket parts and upgrades for them it’s awesome, and they look pretty sweet too. Of course I will have work my way up to a 650cc motorcycle, it’s not like it’s a beginner bike. I don’t know what to get as my first, but it will definitely be used so that I can keep costs down and get experience on motorized two wheels until I’m ready for something a bit more powerful.
More homework has to be done on the must have accessories. Protective jackets, boots, gloves and of course helmets. I’m not to worried about getting pants right now, because a standard pair of jeans should be okay for now. As time draws closer to long rides, then maybe I will look into Kevlar pants used for adventure riders (yes Kevlar as in the bulletproof vests). I’m all about the safety and being on the defensive side of ridding. I’ll be posting more as time goes on. I hope everyone had a good weekend.
I miss and morn him still. I traveled to my home town this past weekend to celebrate a Church service in his honor. It was nice to be home even if it’s for a short period of time. This weekend’s moments were well spend with friends and family which I needed.
I guess I will never feel completely comfortable with his passing and yet I now find the beauty of his memory in my life’s happenings. I hear his voice sometimes in the things I do, to strive harder for those things which are of greater importance. While sitting in Church with my family I felt at home. I know that may sound simple or obvious, but I was at peace. I was conscious of the fact of why we were there, but it was the company i was in which makes those difficult moments clear. Clarity. My father may have passed on, but we are still here; the family is still here to carry on the love, the joy, the unity in his name. I am his son and I am happy to carry the obligation of being what he worked hard to provide for me.
After Church, we all went back to our family home and proceeded to laugh out loud, eat the delicious food that my Mom had prepared and just fall about the place. The house was a buzz with 3 generations of family members enjoying each others company. We took our time in savoring the moment. At times I would catch myself just smiling looking around the room capturing the sights, aromas, and laughter of my family. I knew Pop was in the room with us, it almost made me want to cry, but I reframed so that I wouldn’t take away from the moment.
As the night drew to a close, we only migrated our conversations from inside to outside. :) We talked about the holidays and our plans for the house, plus events up and coming. Leaving just got harder to do because the topic just seemed to change from one thing to another and we all added to it… it was great. So what did I learn? I learned that we as a family are blessed to have each other and the wonderful parents God granted us. Yes, I miss my father and one day, inevitably God will call my Mom to her reward, but it’s my duty to live my life in their honor and mine.
So I’m here in the backyard bbq’n and just chilling out enjoying the decent weather we finally have gotten here in town. It’s nice to sit outside around the fire and just relax. I got some marinated fajitas from “La Michoacana” a Mexican meat market close to my home. They have good stuff so I make it a point to pick up my supplies from there… It’s one stop shopping.
starting a fire is pretty philosophical. Maybe it’s just the mood I’m in or that it’s simply has alot of truth to it, regardless i thought the similarities were very interesting.
yeahh i enjoy bbq’n a bit… maybe to much but to tell you the truth. it’s always been a thing with me and always will. We do alot of bar-b-que’n in my family and I hope to teach my little ones some day. Anyway, i’m outside and I need to put the tortillas on so that my bro and I can eat….
* no innocent meat or tortillas were burned in the publication of this blog post….
