Originally Posted by
staehpj1
I find that once the motivation to get started is there and I go, the routine of riding day after day kicks in.
+1 on this and +1 on dengidog's "people" response. No two days are ever the same irrespective of the scenery. Heck if you ride a bicycle it's because you don't want to shed the scenery of one area and replace it with another until you have drunk your fill. Otherwise fly.
Here's something I put in
one of my trip reports. I think it sums up my motivation for long tours:
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." (H.D. Thoreau) substitute "road" for "woods" and you have it.