Following The Red Brick Road :)

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:49 pm

We were watching The Wizard of Oz and Jacob asks me. What if they followed the red brick road. I said I don't know I guess it would have been a whole different story, or would it? Do we end up where we are supposed to be in life regardless of what road we take? Then today I came upon this;

On the best sunny day, the most powerful magnifying glass will not light paper if you keep moving the glass. But if you focus and hold it, the paper will light up. That is the power of concentration.

A man was traveling and stopped at an intersection. He asked an elderly man, “Where does this road take me?” The elderly person asked, “Where do you want to go?” The man replied, “I don’t know.” The elderly person said, “Then take any road. What difference does it make?”

How true. When we don’t know where we are going, any road will take us there.

Suppose you have all the football eleven players, enthusiastically ready to play the game, all charged up, and then someone took the goal post away. What would happen to the game? There is nothing left. How do you keep score? How do you know you have arrived?

Enthusiasm without direction is like wildfire and leads to frustration. Goals give a sense of direction. Would you sit in a train or a plane without knowing where it was going? The obvious answer is no. Then why do people go through life without having any goals?

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Henry David Thoreau

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:28 pm

Wise words. However, some of my best wandrins have been those where I had no set destination or timetable. I would drive down a winding country road until I saw a road that looked more interesting and then follow it for awhile until something even more interesting presented itself. Some of the places this led were truly amazing.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:58 pm

That sounds very interesting actually. I love to get out on the road and just drive.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 7:02 pm

This reminds me of one of my favorite songs.

RODNEY ATKINS LYRICS - Take A Back Road

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:08 pm

Another fun one is to pick a road out in the middle of nowhere and just see where it goes (no fair looking at maps). It is fun to ask at a local diner or museum in the town where the road ends about the history of the road. Some were built for access to railroads, some were cattle roads, all are interesting.

I turned onto a road last year in the middle of the Mojave Desert. After a day and a half of driving, I stopped in a little town. Noticing the out of state license plates, someone asked me if I was going to drive the road all the way to Massachusetts. Huh? It was a sleepy little road through desert and mountains. I didn't drive the whole length then, but put it on my list for later.

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:02 pm

Wandrin;1447032 wrote: Another fun one is to pick a road out in the middle of nowhere and just see where it goes (no fair looking at maps). It is fun to ask at a local diner or museum in the town where the road ends about the history of the road. Some were built for access to railroads, some were cattle roads, all are interesting.

I turned onto a road last year in the middle of the Mojave Desert. After a day and a half of driving, I stopped in a little town. Noticing the out of state license plates, someone asked me if I was going to drive the road all the way to Massachusetts. Huh? It was a sleepy little road through desert and mountains. I didn't drive the whole length then, but put it on my list for later.

Must have been on US 6. That runs from Long Beach, CA, to Provincetown, Mass, at the tip of Cape Cod.

I have been on just about every mile of it.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:15 pm

LOL Wandrin, that sounds like fun except, I already live out in the middle of no where. LOL well not exactly but close.

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:08 pm

LarsMac;1447068 wrote: Must have been on US 6. That runs from Long Beach, CA, to Provincetown, Mass, at the tip of Cape Cod.

I have been on just about every mile of it.

We have a winner! Except that California renamed routes a couple of decades ago, so now the western terminus is Bishop. I wasn't familiar with US 6 at the time. Now its on my list with Lincoln Highway.

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:10 am

Wandrin;1447071 wrote: We have a winner! Except that California renamed routes a couple of decades ago, so now the western terminus is Bishop. I wasn't familiar with US 6 at the time. Now its on my list with Lincoln Highway.

My favorite part of US 6 is here in Colorado, going over Loveland Pass.