This is kind of off-topic, but I just had to share this. Took a trip to Wyoming this summer and had a blast. Ran across two ladies, each close to 70 years old, riding recumbent tricyles with their camping gear strapped on behind. They pedaled themselves up and over ten thousand foot high Togwotee Pass. I have a new goal in life. I may never pedal over the mountain, but I fully intend to be ABLE to pedal over the mountain when I am 70. These two ladies are both widows and are having the time of their lives doing what they have always dreamed of doing. This seems to me to be the definition of success.
Posted 2013-12-12 5:21 AM (#156209 - in reply to #156194) Subject: RE: Impressed!!
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Posts: 282 Location: southcentral pennsylvania
Life is very short......the older I get, the more apparent that becomes. A friend gave me a magnet for my refrigerator that states "Destined to be an old woman with few regrets!" That's my goal. I keep a file of older folks I use as my role models for ageing. Nate Brown, of HorseWorks Wyoming is among those at the top of the list. At 91 he still rides. In his late 80's he completed the Mexico to Canada ride.....my kind of guy!
Posted 2013-12-13 10:49 PM (#156233 - in reply to #156194) Subject: RE: Impressed!!
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Posts: 522 Location: Tucumcari NM
I admire these ladies so much for picking themselves up and moving forward after the deaths of their spouses. Each of them were married for better than 50 years. It took a lot of courage for them to step out on their own after that many years.
Posted 2013-12-16 11:45 AM (#156264 - in reply to #156194) Subject: RE: Impressed!!
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kBack in '87, I was on a riding holiday in Ireland. Our first night after riding all day in the cold rain was in Cashel. At dinner, we met a group of older folks all 75+ from Germany that were climbing the hills of Ireland on foot. We sure were impressed with them as it is wet boggy footing and they thought nothing of it. We felt kinda quilty since we were riding horses.
Impressed!!
