A new year is coming and hope springs eternal, right? Well........hold on there Cowboy! The years bring experience and with this, hopefully, wisdom. You may plan, certainly, but your plans are not certain to be.
If there was one lesson learned from 2025 it was you never know. You never know how things will turn out. You never know even if you will wake up in the morning. For real......
So, it is with these thoughts in mind and with all due caution and wisdom with which I am about to put forth my outlook for 2026.
First of all, just to keep things simple, I want to keep writing and riding bicycles. If those two things are going to come true, it would be more than enough for me. Within these two hopes I would like to see some better stories told, images shared, and maybe more. I would like to see long rides, some with friends, some without, and report on those. One thing I can say in specific is I hope to be able to attend and ride in the L.O.G. Ride in April. This would be a pretty big deal for myself, and a few other folks as well.
I would love to have some folks up here in Iowa join me in a ride around the country also. You know, the course we used for the Victory Ride, or a similar one in the area, would be nice. I like that area well enough. Maybe we should look Eastward, toward an area N.Y. Roll has been in, or Jackson County. (Big Hills!) Maybe....
There will be a Ride For Jacob this coming year. I may even ask folks to join me in this one again. We will see. But the ride will happen.
And the fixed gear gravel bike, well..... I'm excited to try this out. It will be a challenge, and I have a route to use it on which should allow me to get acquainted with riding gravel fixed fairly easily. But I need to get the bike done first! One step at a time!
Overall, the blog had a banner year again. I'm not 100% sure, but I would guess the numbers were up, despite the late Summer trolling of the posts here by AI bots. Things settled down and by Winter it felt like my numbers were back to reasonable levels. But yeah, overall, better than last year. The post count was exactly the same, which was a record last year, so the record has been tied for posts in a year at 392.
Thank you, dear reader, for being here to read what I have written!
Next year I have no plans to change anything major. But again, you never know what might come up.
Anyway, I suspect the year will start out with the writing, some riding here and there, and we'll see how it all falls into place from there on. Meanwhile, I pray you all have a Happy, Healthy New Year with lots of miles of smiles.
Thank You for reading Guitar Ted Productions!
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