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Honda Rebel 250 rider outside of Morris MN; County Road 9 as I am about to link up with the Pirsig route in Breckenridge.
By 8:00 am the heat is already intense. The pavement shimmers and disappears into a mirage lake, which has a distant towering grain elevator floating like an ark on its surface. A fellow motorcycle rider slowly materializes slowly in front of me like a specter out of this sea as I overtake his Honda Rebel 250, a modern equivalent of Pirsig’s Super Hawk. This spirit sprang from a different holy motorcycle scripture though, clad in his leather jacket, complete with stars and stripes. As I pass, I give him the customary motorcycle wave and recall that Wyatt, the Easy Rider character he mimics, was looking for America. I am too. It had been nearly twenty years since I lived here. |
