You are about to pedal your trike across several states, with a desire to span the distance between two oceans. There are many mountain passes that you must cross, several long deserts, countless horrible road conditions, heavy traffic in places, and numerous other obstacles that will challenge you to the very core. You wonder if you have what it takes to make a trike trip like this. One excuse after another crops up in your mind, each attempting to convince you that rational thinking has left your  normally-sound mind. You can’t do this! It’s a bigger bite than you can chew! Yet somehow, another inner voice rises above the din of negative images, the will to make your vision reality, and so the debate rages.

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