Tom Reuter's fear at his graduation was that he would do just as he was supposed to do.

Get a job in corporate America, buy a house, drive a nice car.

And each morning he'd wake up, shower, drink coffee, drive to work, work the day, come home, eat dinner, go to bed, and then do it all again

the next day. And the day after that, and the day after that, on and on for 30 years or so.

And then eventually he'd retire, gray and old, putter around the house,

walk laps around the local mall. It would be kind of like Bill Murray's Groundhog Day,

only without the excitement. Tom was only just getting comfortable with entering his 20s

and that idea terrified him.

He felt he needed to do something exciting, something different,

something that would really be special.

And about that time his lifelong friend Alex bounds into the scene,

Alex is talking about an amazing adventure, a huge adventure.

He's talking about riding an adventure motorcycle all the way around the world.

Now how exciting is that?

Two buddies carving up dirt on motorcycles blowing in and out of countries eating up the globe.

It didn't take all that much to convince Tom that this was what he needed a real adventure a real motorcycle adventure

There would be nothing about it that is routine would certainly never be boring. It would be wild.

Interestingly, when we plan some adventure like this, some epic thing that we're doing,

we often see it through a lens of achievement, you know, Alaska or Bust, Usoa or Bust, California or Bust.

It's as if it were all about the end, the achievement. They say that everything has a season in life, a time, perhaps even a lifespan,

and when it's over we need to let it go and move forward. But it doesn't mean necessarily walking away and

forgetting. It means carrying forward what you've learned and what you've become

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