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