REASONS TO GET UP IN THE MORNING: sunrise over the ocean, sunset over the mountains, sushi, the sound of a F-1 car accelertating out of a corner, sleeping under the stars in the desert, dim-sum, the smell of 2 stroke oil, lightning shows, cutting first tracks, texas bar-b-que, rising from depth through a school of hammerheads, sturgis, sharing kava with the fijians, ice cold beer, riding in the rockies - motorcyles or horses, the sounds and smells of the ocean, floating down the nile on a faluca, splashing your buddy as you pass him, having a converstion with someone when you speak different languages, thai food, sand between your toes, the smell of a sweaty horse, africa, bench racing, making a new friend, re-connecting with an old one, powder snow in the face, pretty girls with warm smiles, needing 4 wheel drive, the smell after a rain, good chinese food, fresh pavement - a twisty mountain road & no traffic, stepping back in time in yemen syria iran and elsewhere, hammocks, new knobby tires on your dirt bike, animals, re-discovering how small the world is - how little we really know and how much there is still to see & do.....