What's your dream?

[Melalvai]

I have various goals, like 2nd century, overnight bike trip, bike to my folks' (>200 miles), and survive the winter.

But my dream is this:
I'm a grandma sitting in a rocking chair telling stories about my cycling adventures. The words "In my day," come out pretty often, even though some of the stories are from last week. I'm wearing my combat boots. Suddenly I hop up, grab my bike, and pedal away! My grandkids huff & puff to keep up.

It's up to my daughter to provide the grandkids. In the meantime, I'm working on the stories. Some of them are sligtly exaggerated!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Great thread.
Like you, my dream is to be old and riding. My dream is for my husband and I to both be riding into our early 80's together somehow.

[Mr. Bloom]

10 years ago, Silver and I were hiking in the Smokey Mountains. We came across an elderly couple...probably in their 80's...on a very difficult trail. He had a cane in one hand and his wife's hand in the other...and they were hiking that trail together.

We set a dream then of "being that couple".

[Zen]

If I'm poor as dirt I'll still be quite happy in life to be known as "that old lady who rides her bike".

But my dream is another story. That one involves building contractors.

[LBTC]

That's my dream, too! The two of us riding our bikes more and more the older we get!! There won't be our grandkids to tell stories to, but there will be friends' grandkids to spellbind! heehee

Of course my goal is for the homeopathic treatments to work so I can actually *ride* my bike this year.

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[teigyr]

A long time ago when I first started riding, I was training in Southern California. I was on a bike trail headed from the beach and had road tires on my mtn bike. I was training for my first century and was doing a lot of miles at the time.

As I was lamenting to myself about the heat and the wind, I hear knobby tires behind me. This man starts to pass but then hangs back to talk. I explained I was training for my first century. This man, who could easily pass me on knobby tires, explained that it was his 70th birthday. He was going to ride 70 miles then go home and drink champagne with his wife.

I always thought that would be what I would want. Of course, DH is welcome to ride with me

[dellafalls]

My dream is to live car free, grow my own food, ride around on my bike as I age with a dog in the basket and a few running behind like some ecentric old lady. My kids say I don't have far to go!!!

[madscot13]

Great! I love to hear doable dreams!

[iFKA]

My dream is to have three kids and to go with them every Sunday on a bike trip. We already have one small road bike and we haven't even got married...

And when I get really old I'd like to be fat grandma that likes to cook and that bakes cake every day to her numerous grandchildren and has enough energy to play with all of them. I imagine to still drive a bike but the one with basket and bell and I do it slowly so I could stop near every neighbor and talk about my previous adventures.

[IFjane]

Dream for now: To have a mother (she is 84 and healthy as a horse) who acknowledges that I am an adult and am entitled to dreams and goals of my own. To have a mother who supports my goals and dreams and maybe, just maybe, says to me that she is proud of the work I do for the less fortunate families in this world. Ok....I needed to dump that and figured this was as good a place as any. Can you tell I have issues?

Dream for the future: Like many of you, to be OLD and still hiking and riding my bike. With SO.

[madscot13]

Maybe mine is just to have a significant other!

[limewave]

To find happiness wherever life lands me. And to never be stagnant. Have my own design/marketing agency. Be that lady that wins the over 80 age group xterra world championship in Hawaii. Still being madly in love with my husband at our 50-year anniversary.

[DDH]

I have a short right now dream, that someday in the near future I will have taken off 100 lbs and look fit and trim and athletic on my bike as I ride down the road with lots of power in my legs and not getting so fatigued.

Long term in the future dream would be to stay healthy enough to continue to ride into my older years along with my DH. When we retire we want to take the travel trailor out across America, and the bikes go with us.

[mimitabby]

It's funny; we dream about being grandparents too; but we're not holding our breath. I also dream that I will be able to ride my bike into my 80's and get it together enough so that I spend a good part of my time being creative.

[rij73]

My dream is to stay happily married to DH to a ripe old age and to be able to play the piano just as long...