What's your dream?

[northstar]

My big cycling dream would be to ride across the US. Eventually!

My dream for this summer is to bike to my parent's house. That's 100 miles away. With a stop midway at my brother's place. Hmmm...I need to get out the map and start plotting...

[Crankin]

I guess my dream is to stay healthy enough to ride into my 80s and that my husband stays alive long enough to do that with me!
Short term, maybe to be able to do SOME mechanical stuff and do more interesting multi day riding/tours, get a Bike Friday touring bike, and perhaps ride just a little bit faster.

[Torrilin]

Short term dream: to be able to ride up real hills again. Not those gentle little grades, but a grade that's steep enough to be a challenge.

Long term dream: To be as active at 60 as my dad, and to keep a marriage going as long as mom and dad have. They're still happy together after almost 37 years .

[kjay]

My dream is to continue to take adventure trips every year as long as I am able and to be able for a long time. This year I rode a camel in the Sinai desert with the Bedouin, next year it's mountain biking and camel riding in the Gobi desert in Mongolia, maybe also biking and camel riding in the Thar desert. . . I'm in my 60s and loving life to the limit. Thanks for this very interesting thread. I enjoy reading about everyone's dreams.

[short cut sally]

My long term dream would be to gather enough strength to do a camping trip with panniers and backpacks on a bike for days at a time. My DH might bike a few miles here and there but not as compelled as I am to bike. And while I am dreaming, the weather would be perfect with a few sprinkles here and there, mid 70's and no to little breeze! Short term dream would be to spend some time at Martha's VIneyard and cycle. Heard it is beautiful.

[spokewench]

My dreams are really pretty simple. I want to continue to be healthy for as long as I am alive, alert, physically and mentally capable. That may include cycling, or other activities, but to remain flexible and to make the right choices when life's little changes throw a kink in the mix. I vow to be flexible and to keep growing and learning as I grow old and to remain part of my community and not isolate myself from others. I think this is the key to growing old gracefully and healthfully.

Things do change when you get older don't they? I can remember as a youngster wanting to be a professional jockey, a veterinarian, and/or an olympian!

[Crankin]

Shellyj, hold your cycling dream for the Vineyard until fall or next spring. Riding there in the summer really sucks, unless you want to stay on a bike path, with stops and driveways every few feet. We went there 3 summers ago and got yelled at, pushed off the road and generally aggravated on the day we did a 66 mile ride. It seems like tourists there have no clue how to deal with cyclists. Plus, quite a few people rudely stared and made comments about my husband's cycling attire when we had lunch in Edgartown.
It IS great to ride there in the off season and will go back to do that.

[RoadRaven]

My big cycling dream would be to ride across the US. Eventually!

Bike, Forest! Bike!!!

[cosc]

Rij73 and NorthStar stole my dreams. I would like to also be able to play the piano into older age and ride my bike across the US with my hubby.

[MomOnBike]

I'm still talking about a Vancouver to Key West bike trip.

I want to be the Aunt/Grandma that cooks up a super-hot batch of green chili with tortillas while teaching (by example) the youngsters how to cuss in multiple languages,the words to naughty songs and how to hunt elk.

And then I want to hop on my bike and come back weeks later with more stories and pictures.

And when I die, as we all will, I want it to be sudden, while doing something I love.

In short, I want to be the eccentric old lady that everyone has to make allowances for - and yes, I've been told that I'm almost there, already.

[short cut sally]

Thanks Robin for the advice as I had no idea, thought it would be very bike friendly..will definetly plan around that...end of hijack over.

[equus123]

my dreams?

1) stay with the person i love
2) make a living riding my bike

[smilingcat]

My dream hasn't changed from the time I was a teenager.

I still vividly remember an ad from the Ad Council on pollution. An elderly Indian chief crying in the foreground with video clips after video clips in the background of pollution, smoke billowing out the top of smoke stack, large pipes hanging over a river and discharging industrial waste into our river...the brown haze hanging in our air...

I still want to make our society green. I want a cleaner environment for the next generation than what I am living now.

And I want to live a life in a pastoral setting, a slower pace and in harmony with the environment. I really don't need much to make me happy. I see virtue in simple living.

...What the world needs now
is love peace now...

This is my dream,
Smilingcat

oh and stay healthy enough to ride my bicycle.

[li10up]

My dream is to be able to quit work in my 40s and still be able to afford health insurance to cover any mishaps I might have while cycling and backpacking all over the US. It would be perfect if DH was with me but since he likes neither he'll have to follow me around in a motorhome and be my support team.

[RoadRaven]

Like you, li, I want to retire in 6-7 years (I'll be late 40's) when my youngest son finishes school, and spend more time with my partner... I have a great job, but it keeps me from him, and I hate that.

We are going to go to various bike comps round the country, maybe follow some tours overseas, we gonna grow old together...

We want to save enough money so we can live off the interest and don't have to rely on anyone else... just ourselves, and our bikes...

And the final part of my dream? That all five of my children find a partner as loyal and as true and as devoted as I have found... and that they love, like and adore their partner as I do mine.