The setting of a new goal

They say that one key to achieving one's goals is to profess them, make them public. I have never been very good about this, perhaps due to some fear of then not reaching the goal.

So, I guess I'll change that now. I have set a new goal of riding my bike (bicycle, not motorbike) across the country within the next 2-3 years. No, I don't know how I'm going to find the time or money to do it, but that's the goal.

I have a variety of reasons for wanting to do this.

1. It just sounds like fun.
2. I'm struggling with this mid-life realization that, aside from having a wonderful 17-year marriage with a beautiful wife and raised two fabulous girls to age six and nine (more or less), I can't seem to find anything that I would list as a significant life accomplishment. Perhaps completing my undergrad (and soon to be graduate) work while in my 40's could make that list too. I need to feel like I've done something when I die, not that I expect to die any time soon.
3. I caught some sort of inspirational bug from crazyguyonabike.com recently. This site is just chock full of amazing stories of people who have done just what I want to do.

I'm off to a bit of a start already, although there's a LOOOOOONG way to go. Read what I've done so far on my new blog, fuzzypedaling.blogspot.com.

- Mark