Flying Solo

I’m different. I know that. I’ve always been different, it’s part of what makes me unique, special if you will. That is just how it’s always been, for as long as I can remember. But lately, it seems, I am constantly getting this “you’ve can’t be serious” response from everyone.

For instance my bike trip to Mississippi everyone seems so surprised that I am going alone. Um, why not? Can’t wrap my mind around why not. I am, let’s just say in my 30’s the safety concerns involved with traveling alone have not escaped me. But I can’t not go just because going means going alone. Amelia Earhart flew solo too. I read that she in a letter she left for her husband she wrote:
"Please know I am quite aware of the hazards," she said. "I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."

Understand that I am not trying to something that hasn’t been done before, nor am I trying to prove something. Ok I maybe proving something to myself. Like Amelia I want to do it because I want to do it. Since I don’t have a death wish I shall take the necessary precautions to be safe.

I suspect the conversations that go on (after I leave the room) about me and my adventurous nature is quite entertaining. What I’d give to be a fly on the wall. Very few people get me; and I get that. But in my short life I’ve done things, seen things, and been places that some people can only imagine. I read this phrase recently and I think it speaks a lot to who I am.

From the outside looking in
It is impossible to understand it
From the inside looking out it is impossible to explain it