"How Terribly Strange To Be 70" (from the song Old Friends by Paul Simon)
I was probably fourteen or fifteen years old when I first heard that song. Nice tune, but I don't recall it having any impact on me. And I certainly would not in my wildest dreams have been able to imagine myself being that age. And yet...here I am. Next week begins my 70th year on this planet. Sometimes I wonder how I even made it this far. Especially when you consider nearly forty years of bad habits along with the fact that my heart attacked me when I was 50, requiring quintuple by-pass surgery. Twenty years ago and no complications...so far. And, when you add in a touch of asthma and high blood pressure, as well as some ill advised risk taking ... as in this little adventure, https://whatsyourroadblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-early-bird-gets-wet-back-to-devils.html, I should consider myself very fortunate to have made it this far.
I hope I continue to enjoy relatively good health for my next trip around the sun. And beyond. Because...I have plans. Some of them are rather aggressive. Others fairly tame. Here are some examples:
I've been invited to attend Burning Man in the Nevada desert next summer. I'm going to do it.
Kayaking is something I took up this past summer. I plan to do a lot more of it next summer.
Although I now ride an e-bike, it's a mountain bike model and I'll be hitting the trails more often. Not just the Mickelson trail. I see some single track also in my future.
