Why am I doing this?

Why am I taking these dangerous trips?  Hey, it isn't any more dangerous than driving a car anywhere.  More people die in car accidents than while bike touring!

Anyway, I want to live my life without regrets. To come to the end of my life, and feel that I had done what I could. That I hadn't wasted any of it.  

A book I read recently explains this. In "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" Donald Miller talks about the stories we are living.  In the beginning he makes the point that if we watch a movie about a man working all his life to buy a Volvo, we aren't touched at the end. We don't even think it is a good movie. The movies we remember, and are touched by are the ones that involve risk - great risk.  If that makes a good movie, it would make a good life, too. I do know God wants us to risk all for Him, so that is what I plan on trying to do with my life.  

This bike trip is one of the steps to where He is leading me. I am sure.