I love this time of year, well let me be more specific, I like every time of year when I can ride without multiple layers of restrictive clothing and my nose isn't frozen.
One of my favorite things about riding, is the smells, everything between the mountains and the beach has a smell. Every thing from leaves, pine forests, wild flower fields, hay fields, and fresh cut grass, to ponds, swamps,and lakes have a smell and on a bike, it all flows together in a potpourri of life. Unlike riding in a car, you are surrounded by the smells of life and even death. The smells of ponds and swamps where decaying plants produce a sweet almost flower like odor.
Breathing in this melody of smells makes you more a part of the world and it gets better after a rain, water brings out all new smells. Cruising through mist covered valleys in the hills and mountains after a rain changes the normal smells into a saturation of olfactory sensations, even the earth (dirt) has a smell when it's wet. One of my favorite smells has nothing to do with nature, the smell of rain on hot pavement.
Most people cruise along in their cages unaware of these things, these smells that remind you of childhood when you weren't afraid to lay in the grass or run through the brooks and streams, dash through ferns in the forest or jump from tree clump to tree clump in the swamps and ponds. As we get older we get further and further away from the natural world, surrounded by wood, concrete, steel and glass we forget what it was we were close to as a child. Cruising on a motorcycle brings you a little closer to those memories, and we can do it without dealing with spiders, tics, leeches, and other creepy crawly critters.
klay
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