Why "Bent on the Road?"

.01 My husband, Rudy, and I bought recumbent bikes this spring (2012).  We weren’t planning to buy them.  It . . just . . . sort of . . . happened.  (Well, not exactly. )  In two months we have ridden over 750 miles in Iowa, South Dakota, Montana and Alberta.  We’ve had wonderful, unexpected conversations with people we would never have met if we weren’t biking.  This blog is about people, places and other stuff associated with riding our ‘bents on the road.

.02 (Cheesy metaphor alert.)  I am bent on journeying the road of life and being attentive to the every-day happenings along the way.  I don’t want to keep my sights on the rear view mirror so much that I miss an upcoming curve or a secret passage.  Neither do I want to focus on the horizon so much that I ignore the daffodils (or tulips) right beside me, or the canyon three feet in front of me.  (Not that there are canyons here in Northwest Iowa.)  This blog is about being bent on the journey, not just the destination.

.03 Life isn’t always a straight path.  It’s full of unpredictable twists and turns.  Let’s face it, we get a little (or a lot) bent up on the road of life.  Pain and disappointments happen.  This blog is about some of those bent-up moments.