2024-2030 life goals and long-term plan
I threw in an extra year into the 5-year plan, but this will make it easier to find later.
Looking back on 2021 5-year plan been amazed at how much of it we accomplished. Both Doris and I have done amazing things mostly because we set out to do them as high priorities (usually at the cost of other ones). Well, time to do it again.
I just want to ride
I’m happiest when I’m riding my bike safely in places that are visually interesting and provide a challenge. Now that I’ve remembered this fact about myself, after forgetting and floundering around until I rediscovered it, the rest of my life goals are pretty much based around it. It’s not even people, travel, culture, and art that interest me. It’s biking in the open air.
I actually hate people
If I’m brutality honest, I actually hate people. People mostly suck. People are the reason I’m grumpy and pissed off most of the time. I’m a lot like George Carlin in that respect. He gave up on humanity in the most optomistic nihlist way possible. He had lost all hope but somehow kept his happiness and ability to make jokes about how horrible everything is. That’s pretty much me. I am super picky about those I would seek out to be my friends and am never really anxious to make new ones. Ironically, I’m not really an introvert either.
Regular routine
- Maintain room and bathroom (sauca).
- High quality diet.
- Daily yoga.
- Daily ride(s).
- Daily reading.
2023
- Sell or donate everything I won’t be needing in the next five years.
2024
- Maintain current job skills.
- Reach 66 kilos healthy weight and maintain it.
- Finish Assault on Mt. Mitchell in under nine hours with my heavy bike and gravel clothes.
- Do at least three century rides a month.
- Average 400k/week.
- Plan and prepare for Tour Divide (minimal bike packing practice, etc.).
- Do several 3-day, minimal bikepacking trips (leave Friday, home late Sunday).
- Slowly buy minimal bikepacking gear.
- Eliminate remaining debt.
- Get minimum down payment saved by September 1st.
- Buy home and move in by October 1st.
2025
- Attend family college graduation(s) (if any).
- Enable kid(s) to stay with us as needed (after graduation).
- Visit and live with family in Western states (if graduation).
- Do 3-day, minimal bikepacking trip pretty much every weekend (vary intensity week to week).
- Plan and prepare for Tour Divide (minimal bike packing practice, etc.)
- Tour NY gallery shows for few weeks in September with Doris and Otto.
- Adjust minimal bike packing gear.
- Save enough money to take 40 days off next year.
- Save 5000 to purchase TD bike.
2026
- Attend family college graduation(s) (if any).
- Visit and live with family in Western states (if graduation).
- Enable kid(s) to stay with us as needed (after graduation).
- Buy and build TD bike and remaining gear.
- Complete Tour Divide in under 30 days.
- Visit family in Canada.
- Fly everyone in for family reunion.
- Christmas trip to NY?
2027
- Live and work remotely from someplace in Europe with great, safe cycling.
- Do several bikepacking 3-day trips in Europe.
- Watch Doris bring in the big bucks.
2028
- Money should be really good by now.
- Complete Assault on Mt. Mitchell (again in 60-65 age group).
- Complete Tour Divide (again in 60-65 age group).
2029
- Live and work remotely from someplace (different) in Europe with good, safe cycling routes.
- Do several bikepacking 3-day trips in Europe.
2030
SKILSTAK is done (for next five years or so)
Notice there is nothing in these goals about SKILSTAK. SKILSTAK is done (at least for the next five years). No more Boost. No books. Perhaps as I get older my thinking on that will change
Live streaming continues but random
I’m only streaming stuff I want to make and do. If someone else benefits so much the better.
I will still likely stream technical things that I’m interested in or working.
No desire to go back to Carribean after all
As much as I love Barbados and Martinique, those islands are impossibly dangerous to get around on by bicycle—even more dangerous than the US.