The death rate is hovering around 100%. I have decided I’m not going out sitting down, without a fight. This is one thing I have to do…
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The following multi-part story is true…
They didn’t want to tell me, but now that I knew, they were all looking at me. I felt like I was their hope to finish this thing. I had to finish it for him, for me, for us. I was Dad again. I was over halfway there. I felt good. Energized.There was nothing more to say. Go. Go and do it.
I turned into the cold night. Paved road. San Ignacio. The 20 miles before this little town was hell. I was glad to put it behind me. Two blurry blocks to a right turn. Things are lit up. Fans three deep at the curbs. Bright colors contrasting the night. Cheering. I am full of resolve and a dimension has just been added to my purpose. I fist pump the crowd to the left. I fist pump them to the right. One block and a left turn in front of the 230-year-old mission church. More cheering fans.
I fist pump them back – they respond. Inside my helmet I think “I will do this. I can do this.” Suddenly the last masonry and stucco structure disappears. Any lights give way to the black desert. My eyes go from colored vision to black and white. The course pulls me out into oblivion again.
I didn’t know it, but I have just made a simple but critical mistake, the consequences of which I will begin to feel soon enough…
I feel bad just reading this much.
On the other hand, I have a hard time with unfinished stories and since this one was already started I will be looking for the additions.
Since you completed one loop I had to come back to the original post and admire its mastery and think about all the planning and work poored into transcribing your unique journey into an amazing daily marvel. I have mixed feelings about the Baja desert for being so unforgiving but the reality is that humans need challenges to make them grow and it was a voluntary choice to participate. As the reader I grow with you on my own way through trying to imagine the scenary and process the emotions and come up with solutions for obsticles I personally never faced. Thank you for taking us with you on this journey.