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October 9, 2009
Life On The Road
Life on the road is a odd sort of existence, if it even is one. But I come to see life as more of a series of little victories, than one big one. Traveling means that I have so little time at home. So little time to do anything around the house or yard. When I'm home, I dart about like a hummingbird fixing lights, cutting down trees, mowing, paying bills. And what I find is that ever minute I have in the house is an opportunity to be doing something. Cleaning camera lenses. Repairing the motorcycles. Fixing the computers. All of this has to be done. And at the end of the day, I'm a little bit further ahead for every little task I've completed. Every little task completed is like a small victory.
But when I'm away, mostly all I can do is work and work is OK, in it's own way, but 15 hour days grow old fairly quickly. All I can remember from California is waking and going into to work and working all day and bouncing back and forth like a ping pong ball in a dryer.
When I was in San Diego once, I was looking for an email in my inbox at the client site and, for some reason, I didn't have any email before Sept 1st. And I couldn't figure out why. And then I started thinking...how long have I been flying back and forth between Denver and San Diego and I couldn't remember. My life just seemed like this endless series of flights and rental cars and hotels. Lunch at the roach coach and and late night fast food runs.
And that was when I knew that it was time to go. When you're on a first name basis with the cleaning crew and the security guards and the people that restock the vending machines and the Mountain Man pusher. Then you know that it's time to go.
Posted by Rob Kiser on October 9, 2009 at 5:29 PM
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