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I've met a lot of older people
grandparents teachers who give me the
spiel of my life went by so fast just
yesterday I was 19 or 25 and and now I
don't know where all that time went I
just blinked and I was 80 and I think
about that and I'm like what a what a
strange way to be alive back in
California I had this fear of building
this routine in my 30s and suddenly the
decade is gone and so I promised myself
I would do something radically different
and I'm gonna do something that scares
the crap out of me and see if that
changes my brain chemistry
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I've been living on my bicycle for a
year now bikes from Oregon down America
down Mexico Central America and into
South America and people ask me why do
you live on a bike why did you quit your
job why are you doing this my answer is
this the routine is the enemy
it makes it fly by
when you're a kid everything is
astonishing everything is new
and so your brain is awake and turned on
so every passing second your brain is
learning something new learning how the
world works and so the muscle of your
brain is activated and as you get older
and your brain has figured out the
patterns of the way the world works
this is how you make money this is how
you graduate school this is how you get
a mortgage this is how you have kids
I've got that on lockdown I know my car
and I'm gonna go to work every day and
I'm gonna check out all these things and
once your brain establishes a routine it
stops the alertness goes away the
fascination with the way the world works
I think that's what travel in general
does it wakes up your brain I'll go into
a new country the Panama
to Colombia these countries I'm like
scared because
and I'll find it beautiful and shocking
every Hill I cross over is insanely
awesome
my brain is fascinated I didn't know my
brain can be so turning I want to be
aware of every day I'm alive and I want
to make it to 85 and be exhausted
because I have been alive and awake
every single day and that I think that's
the duty of being an adult is when
you're a kid everything's new so you
don't have to work for it you're just
astonishment once you're an adult that's
a choice you choose adventure for your
own
but it's not about the bike it's about
getting out of your routine
to look like anything
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that's what I'm doing here that's why
I'm doing this bike
because I don't want my days to control
me I don't I don't want my life the
calendar to be my boss I want to control
my day
I want to choose the adventures that I
go on
and I want to choose of a mind and a
soul that's wide awake because in a
sense it turns your hundred years on
this planet
into a thousand and so I mean that's why
I'm doing this bike trip
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