YOU'D have to be dead not to have heard the various opinions/scenarios/predictions etc on the changing climate. As humans we have altered the planet in enumerable ways during the last 300 years.
Prior to the Industrial revolution (mid 1700's-mid 1800's and ongoing) mankind has literally come out of the shadows and in many ways dominated our surroundings in ways that were never possible prior. Energy, population growth, exploration, war, technology just keep on rolling along. Take this laptop for example, the computing power of this inexpensive 'machine' is phenomenal. NASA would have killed to have a battery of these machines at their disposal in the 1960's leading up to the moon missions.
Look at any SmarterthanI* phone and what they are capable of doing with the world wide web in the palm of your hand. Air travel is another one, medical science yet another. Soon it will be an everyday occurrence, little nanobots running around in our bodies with picks and shovels to clear blocked arteries. To quote a line I believe from Star Trek TNG, where the good Doctor says to the humans found on a planetoid where they had crash landed 90 years previously... "It's just lung cancer, we'll transport you to sick bay and it will be cured in hours..." or something to that effect, I truly believe this will happen. It seems everyday there is some new marvel available that will change the way we think and work.
As for the changing planet... that is ongoing. There have been violent volcanic upheavals, asteroid collisions, mass extinctions, ice ages and splitting of continents.
So what else is new...
Just in my little world here on lovely Prince Edward Island two years ago February first, I was out riding my TTR 125 on my grass track, the snow melted in the course of a few days, green grass in our fields, last year I was playing catch up after returning from Phoenix, dealing with mountains of snow and record everything. Today we were in Charlottetown Brenda and I, and with plus 6C temperatures, steady wind and rain from the south, 90% of the snow we had just a few days ago has melted into the earth.
TODAY I had a tremendous urge to ride my bike, any bike, anywhere, even in the front yard. Unfortunately everything is neatly packed away. Well everything except the Yamaha DT50, which although winterized, being a two stroke engine, could be going in a mere moment... The Polaris Indylite hasn't run yet this winter...
GANG... it's almost February and as we all know, that's a short month. At this rate, mild... it will be spring in no time (I can hear your chuckle from my seat in my little den)
I have many plans for 2015, and as they unfold you'll read about and see photos of them coming to life. I'm working on a Nostalgia trip, no... not riding a YSR
50cc to Toronto like I did in 1989 for the Yamaha conference, but certainly looking at how to do 5000 km out west riding Liz's LS650 Savage. A bike not all that unlike the BMW I rode to the Island in 1975.
Then there is long time friend Deryl Thompson who is shipping his Guzzi out here from Edmonchuk/Edmonton and wanting to ride the Cabot Trail in my company. I would like to load up the soft bags on my venerable and lovable XT 600 for a multi day back road tour of the mainland, there's the D2D rally and Brenda and I on, our week off are looking at a destination or two for ourselves among other things likely riding my Thunderbird as we did on our Lunenburg honeymoon.
Yup... it may be winter officially, but things are heating up around the household...
*coined by me!
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