Motorcycling makes me a better person. It makes me a more patient parent, a better husband and a better journalist.
Linda has called motorcycling a waste of time. Albert Einstein said, "Creativity is the residue of wasted time." I have come up with some of my best story ideas while riding. Sometime it has been an idea that came from the ether; other times it was from literally taking the road less travelled.
It's also a way of spending time with friends I may only see a couple time a year, but the friendship always picks up right where it left off.