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  1. <p>Corvallis is the town where my mother went to college. It was kind of fun to hang around the town where my
  2. mother was when she was my age.</p>
  3. <p>This is the moment in the journey where I start to have big-picture realizations about myself and the trip.
  4. This is the moment when I start to learn the lessons this journey had to teach me.</p>
  5. <p>From my journal:</p>
  6. <blockquote>[I rode] Old Corvallis road, which wound through farm country. It was pretty, of course, but all of
  7. this scenery is starting to blur together.</blockquote>
  8. <blockquote>This [ride] is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me, and by that, I mean I only ever want to do
  9. it once in my lifetime. It's a tool of exploration and self-discovery which I am leveraging at an age
  10. when I can. It's a means to an end.</blockquote>
  11. <p>By this point, I am well aware that I am not riding my bicycle for the simple pleasure of riding a bicycle.
  12. There are people who are this way (hello, Wilsons!! Thank you :)) but I am not one. I am on this trip to
  13. challenge myself. To meet people and see new things and learn what I can and can't do. This is the moment of
  14. the trip when I started to become philosophical about it.</p>