{"id":872,"date":"2011-08-11T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2011-08-11T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T17:56:54","slug":"missoula-banff-glacier-motorcycle-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Missoula-Banff-Glacier Motorcycle Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Sheldon already posted, for the moment, the\u00a0focus of\u00a0our wanderlust has narrowed to the isolated stretches of road that will carry us to paradise in the coming days.\u00a0 My conversion to motorcyclism was predicated on my insatiable desire for travel -well, that and my testosterone.<\/p>\n

If\u00a0our sole intention were to\u00a0ride the road and allow the serentity of the road to escort\u00a0our minds\u00a0into caverns of thought for which ordinary life never allows, the trip would be sufficient for our purposes.\u00a0 Yet, it will be so much more than that. We will stand at the edge of panoramic mountain\u00a0vistas which beg the very same question asked by Cicero,<\/p>\n

“Who is he, to whom human affairs seem great, when one contemplates the Earth in all of its glory?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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We will build a bond of brotherhood, sharing experiences which excite our senses – experiences like cliff jumping into the\u00a0icy clear\u00a0waters of\u00a0glacier-fed lakes, sharing stories over delicious meals in roadside cafes, and immersing ourselves in the grandeur of God’s creations.<\/p>\n

The road is ours.\u00a0 We long for the smell of pine, for the warm-to-cool transitions from sun to shadows, and for the sensation of flying through narrow valleys between steep, towering\u00a0walls of granite.<\/p>\n

We do not have souls.\u00a0 We are souls who have bodies.<\/p>\n

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As Sheldon already posted, for the moment, the\u00a0focus of\u00a0our wanderlust has narrowed to the isolated stretches of road that will carry us to paradise in the coming days.\u00a0 My conversion to motorcyclism was predicated on my insatiable desire for travel … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,56,169],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DhXV-e4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}